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Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned from Eighties Movies (and Why We Don't Learn Them from Movies Anymore) by Hadley Freeman
4.0
A superbly fun book full of great tidbits on your favourite 80's movies, but paired with some surprisingly in-depth discussion of movie and social critique.
Freeman clearly loves her topic (who wouldn't), and is quite passionate about young James Spader and young Dan Aykroyd (again, who wouldn't be?). Her discussions of Pretty in Pink, When Harry Met Sally, Dirty Dancing, The Princess Bride and Ghostbusters were the best of the book. Her later chapters on social class, racism and feminism were great, but seemed to be missing the aura of fun the earlier chapters had.
A super fun book - highly recommended for everyone who loves 80's movies, and (even though it's only April I'm calling it already) one of the best non-fiction books of 2016.
With thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for the advance copy.
Freeman clearly loves her topic (who wouldn't), and is quite passionate about young James Spader and young Dan Aykroyd (again, who wouldn't be?). Her discussions of Pretty in Pink, When Harry Met Sally, Dirty Dancing, The Princess Bride and Ghostbusters were the best of the book. Her later chapters on social class, racism and feminism were great, but seemed to be missing the aura of fun the earlier chapters had.
A super fun book - highly recommended for everyone who loves 80's movies, and (even though it's only April I'm calling it already) one of the best non-fiction books of 2016.
With thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for the advance copy.