false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1185806510m/1607325.jpg 1607325 2 A shrewd and hilarious call to arms for the generation that fell between the cracks. Jammed in between the garish showboating of the baby boomers and the tabloid- trash stunts of the millennials, the discerning generation that gave us Yahoo! and Nirvana has been quietly and inexorably changing the face of American culture. The men and women who came of age in the era of Lollapalooza have been underrepresented for too long in pop sociology, but reporter and essayist Jeff Gordinier argues that it's time for the slackers to rise up and take charge. Taking off from his controversial Details essay <i>Has Generation X Already Peaked?</i>, Gordinier takes the reader along on an enthralling, eye-opening journey -- from the expatriate garrets of Prague to the amped-up offices of dot-com San Francisco, from the muddy fields of Woodstock '94 to the celebrity-obsessed media machine of <I>Us Weekly</I> -- in his quest to find the essence of X. Along the way he shows how Gen X innovations in art, comedy, technology, activism, and (gasp!) business have come to define the way we live now. A proud, accomplished, and unrepentant X-er, Jeff Gordinier writes with insight and biting wit about the generation that time forgot and makes a convincing case for Gen X as maybe, secretly, the greatest generation of all. Like <I>Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs</I> and <I>The Tipping Point, X Saves the World</I> flips conventional wisdom on its head and expertly captures the spirit of a strange and crucial era in American society. 1600753 27 3 2008 X Saves the World: How Generation X Got the Shaft but Can Still Keep Everything from Sucking total:162|5:21|4:55|3:62|2:19|1:5| 162 554 304 55 2 3 false false Sun May 18 12:55:47 -0700 2008 Sun May 18 13:01:58 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 2 false false Thu Jul 17 19:23:06 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 25 20:30:41 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 2 false false Tue Jul 15 08:54:45 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 15 08:57:35 -0700 2008 5 1 false false Thu Sep 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 12 10:17:02 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 15 15:48:36 -0700 2008 1 Reality Bites, ...more...]]> 3 1 false false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 14 16:57:52 -0700 2008 Sat May 24 08:13:41 -0700 2008 The first chapter or so are hilarous, and I laughed out loud many times.
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This book was fun, in that I share the author's disdain for millennials. It was interesting and made me feel better about my generation.

The book was born out of an essay, and it shows. It's a short book, and it reads much more like an opinion piece than...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Mar 20 14:20:30 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 24 10:20:09 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 22 15:36:34 -0700 2008 Thu Jan 01 20:33:25 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Aug 25 11:37:53 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 25 11:43:33 -0700 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=1607325