
He’s a culture critic with a smart, funny style. And it gave me a lot to think about - a mix of interesting cultural commentary, nostalgic warm and fuzzies, excellent music and questionable fashion. So I came to this book as a fan of the topic, you might say. These were good times, and eye-opening in many ways. I started high school in 1990 and finished grad school in 2000. This topic, the 1990s, was not just an interesting time culturally it was particularly formative for me. For Chuck Klosterman’s The Nineties, my first draft review was over ten pages.

How fast these drafts come is sometimes a good indicator of how much connection I felt with a book. My first drafts of any of my reviews are usually scattered notes and random half-thoughts, some unrelated to the book but brought to mind by it.
