Chris Colin

Hmmm. So I was really excited to read this book. I generally love snapshots of people and I loved the idea of following up on a group of people since high school.

What I found was that it got really boring fast.

The first couple of chapters were mildly interesting. I would say that things started to go south for me when he tracked down his old ex-girlfriend. The author's reflections on race and love that came out of that meeting just rubbed me the wrong way... and then -- again and again as show more he re-met each of the other people in the book - it just felt like this was more about the author's experiences in high school and his experience researching the book than really about the people he profiled.

Eventually I started to skip the author's reflective chapters - that helped a little.

All in all a disappointing read. show less

it's not any kind of sociology, but rather one guy decides to look up some of his classmates 10 years after high school and see how they're doing. You can't really draw any conclusions from it, but it did give me hope that maybe my own graduating class isn't too bad off.