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Oh no, I tried to pinpoint an exact year this takes place and noticed an error: the Hamlet performance is Friday, November 9, but 1962 was the only year in the ‘60s where that lines up. That doesn’t work because there’s a couple references to the Vietnam War. (Though not enough, IMO; I would have liked if that were looming over the seniors like WWII in A Separate Peace.)
— Apr 28, 2026 02:38PM
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Here comes the hardest part of the story to get through. Not in a bad way; it's just a lot.
— May 11, 2026 10:54AM
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Peter and Jordan are treating the rubdown incident with a casualness that is unfathomable in the year 2026.
— May 07, 2026 11:47AM
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I always forget the meeting of the glee clubs comes so soon; I'm somehow always under the impression it takes place a little further on.
— Apr 29, 2026 11:26AM
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Jordan is here :) I wish everyone I know would read this book and talk to me about it.
— Apr 26, 2026 07:46PM
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Every time I go to a thrift store, I try to find a sport coat like the one Peter describes. I've come close a couple times but have yet to find anything close to my size.
— Apr 24, 2026 07:28AM
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The first 10% of the book is good setup, but I really start having fun here, when Peter leaves for Gilford.
— Apr 14, 2026 11:11AM
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Also the idea of a headmaster having a whole assembly about how two boys were supposedly cracks me up
— May 16, 2025 11:46AM
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Do they reference specific incidents or something? Because Vietnam in the early 60s was a bit like the American perception of Ukraine now, where people are aware of it but it's not the foremost issue of foreign policy. One of the conservative arguments against Kennedy was that his Vietnam policy was too soft on communism. (Worth noting that he almost doubled US military presence in Vietnam, but it wasn't full scale war so of course conservatives were annoyed.)
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Tea wrote: "Do they reference specific incidents or something? Because Vietnam in the early 60s was a bit like the American perception of Ukraine now, where people are aware of it but it's not the foremost iss..."Good question: they make jokes about American soldiers being over there, which of course suggests it takes place in 1965 or later.
