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Description of  Forever Nerdy: Living My Dorky Dreams and Staying Metal

Posehn's stream of consciousness will ring true for so many of my peers from the era. For me, I simply changed heavy metal to soundtracks, and then changed the names of the bullies as well as the names of the attractive and impossible-to-so-much-as-talk-to. And his horror was my science fiction, though my seeing The Omen in the theater when I was 13 left me with a long life of looking in photographs for lines of unknown origin aimed at my neck. Those for whom the book doesn't ring true are probably the aforementioned bullies or attractive popular people, who won't get more than a couple of pages into this text before saying, "What the bleep is he talking about?" And then they'll put the book down never to return. But if you were one of the outsiders looking in, and even if you still are, and especially if you don't yet realize that being on the outside is far more interesting than being on the inside, Posehn's text is entertaining and an enthusiastic reminder of what life was like for kids and teens in the politically incorrect 70s and beyond.