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BLBC was the first novel I read that was written entirely in the second person, and even though it is rather gimmicky in retrospect, as a high schooler, I thought it was cool. I was working at Barnes & Noble at the time (my senior summer), and I was getting acquainted with those fancy Vintage Contemporaries paperbacks (goodreads.com/list/show…
BLBC was the first novel I read that was written entirely in the second person, and even though it is rather gimmicky in retrospect, as a high schooler, I thought it was cool. I was working at Barnes & Noble at the time (my senior summer), and I was getting acquainted with those fancy Vintage Contemporaries paperbacks (https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/14477.Best_of_Vintage_Contemporaries). I also just remembered: Spy made a very funny parody of Cliffs Notes of these hip, young novelists:
https://archive.org/details/spynotesonmciner00newy
As far as the movies go, I've seen both BLBC and LTZ, but not Clean and Sober. Barely passing grades to BLBC and LTZ for sure. I remember feeling quite bad for Downey, because it looked like he was living that poor character's life in his real life.