Passable in Pink by Mike Sacks

Passable in Pink Reviews

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  Stacey Kennedy

  I don't understand how this isn't copyright infringement- or maybe John Hughes' family gave permission for this book to be produced (altho I doubt it.) This is a poor Sixteen Candles knock off. The family lines up with Sam's family (down to the 'princess' older sister marrying an Italian guy speedy quick and a Chinese exchange student Long Love Wang aka Long Duck Dong). There is also an Anthony Michael Hall 'Geek' character (Grimer) following Addy - Sam around like a puppy and the cool rich kid love interest that was Jake. It is ridiculous! How could this be sold as an original of any kind? It isn't. Disappointed.
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  Elizabeth

  There's one joke in this entire script: (spoiler alert) it's hahaha aren't 80's movies stupid?, as if being made by a cynical twenty-year-old who's watched _Pretty In Pink_ and looked at his mom's yearbook and therefore knows all of the decade and can totally be funny while making fun of it.
  
  Which was funny. For about the first ten minutes. For the next five hours, this joke/premise is dragged into the town square, beaten to death, resurrected and then beaten in six other town squares until it's not so much interesting as it is like a pathetic injustice that you feel you must witness so that it never happens again.
  
  I'm giving it a star for some obscure 80's references, even if those references were twisted and abused.
  
  I wish I could have my five hours back.
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  Mel Kenney

  Such a disappointment. There is not one single original thought in Passable in Pink... even the title reminds me of Pretty in Pink. I'm surprised that Cameron Crowe (Fast Times at Ridgemont High) and John Hughes (Sixteen Candles, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Pretty in Pink, and Breakfast Club) has not knocked Mike Sacks with a lawsuit for stealing their stories.
  
  The only reason I finished listening is because I made a game out of identifying the audiobook scene with the above movies.
  
  I do not recommend. It totally missed the mark.
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  Holly Corson

  Terrible. Unoriginal. Let's just mix up 80's teen movies and copy their story lines almost word for word. I thought the narrators and music were terrible. Do not waste your time.
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  Cassandra Joseph

  The weirdest combination of late 70’s-80’s movies rolled into one story. Kind of like a car crash, you really want to stop reading, but can’t help yourself 😆😆
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  Kristy Mills

  Is this what actors were doing during the covid quarantine?
  
  The narration was great. And the beginning really had me intrigued. I was excited about it. I LOVE 80’s movies. I realize this was making fun of them and at first I was enjoying it. But all the cliche’s and references to every John Hughes movie ever made, got old.
  
  I’m really liking this style of audiobook, with a cast of narrators, it’s fun to listen to. But a typical movie is about 2 hours, this was almost 6, and I just got tired of it. About half way through I was ready for it to be over. It was supposed to be funny, but it was not my kind of humor. I thought it was dumb, and the same jokes were made over and over.
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  Val

  It suppose to be a sweet love teen 80s reflection but it won’t be funny if you aren’t a fan of the 80s/80s movies. I truly dig the sound effects in the background in order to picture the surroundings but the story wasn’t what I thought it would be. It did try to give that sense of humor about the 1980s...I giggle every now and then. Soon enough, the sense of humor got old towards the end.
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  Jamie Dyer Colman

  It was every John Hughes’ flick and every bad teenage drama, after school special, and terrible decision of the 80s combined. The satire was not lost on me as it unfortunately was on others who have reviewed this book. It was just ridiculous enough that it was still bitchin’. Not grody at all, okay?!
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  Scott Erickson

  A very funny book, laughs on every page (sometimes TWO on a page). An absurdist parody of John Hughes films - most specifically "Pretty in Pink." I'm not hugely into those films, so I probably missed a lot of references and in-jokes. But no matter, because the humor transcended parody. The humor was both silly and smart, which is a great combination.
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  Les Simpson

  This was a pretty good laugh from beginning to end, a great send up of ‘80s teen movies in general and John Hughes films in particular. Judging by some of the other reviews, the satire was so on the nose that some readers/listeners didn’t realize it was satire. The title should make that obvious, but…
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  Dana

  Okay, this book will appeal to a certain subset of Gen-Xers who liked John Hughes movies but cringe at them—mostly—now. The cast is great in the audiobook. The story makes no damned sense, but it’s not supposed to. The characters are utterly vapid, but they’re supposed to be.
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  Kelly

  End was a little anti-climactic, but every 80s teen movie spoofed made for an amazing listen.
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  Dianna

  *1.5⭐️
  
  listen. i'm not saying this production was awful i'm just saying that it's the audiobook equivalent of 'this meeting should've been an email'. this audiobook that inexplicably dragged on for almost 6 hours should've been a quick and tight satirical short story.
  
  (or even better: this comedic audiobook that was so tedious to get through it took me six months and the decision to delete my audible account to actually finish it should've been a three minute college humor sketch on youtube in 2011)
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  Lizz

  This was a story scraped together for reasons that are entirely unclear to me, from the remains of every John Hughes movie, plus Freaks and Geeks, and maybe Revenge of the Nerds. Not unenjoyable, but also not good. And for the love of god will someone tell the 1980s they don’t need three adjectives in every sentence.
  
  That said, team yoids for life.
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  Shannon Karcher

  Ehhh... it’s got a few moments that made me think, “Oh! That’s such and such 80s movie!” But really, it was something I trudged through just to finish. The cast was great and now I want to go listen to some Sioux and the Banshees but other than that it was nit all that great.
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  Cynthia

  I listened on Audible and the narrators were outstanding! There were some laugh out loud moments and fun music interspersed throughout. After a while I got tired of the story so I think two hours would have kept my attention but it started to drag a bit towards the end
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  Niki

  This book was written I think to try and remind us of all of classic movies from the 80's. Girl from the wrong side of the tracks, hot popular shows interest in her, screws her over. How will she survive? It isn't a book that I would recommend with so many other options.
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  Jennifer

  I wanted to love this, but it was meh. It wasn't funny enough nor ironic enough. It felt awkward (maybe the point.) I laughed a few times and overall enjoyed it, but it fell short. The narrators also felt and sounded super old (which may have been the point as well.)
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  Catherine Martin

  This is a very funny book, but I didn't finish it because it kind of falls into a rut, in my opinion. Once I had read and appreciated about half of this, I just gave it up. It's one joke; a very funny joke, but only one.
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  Sairah

  Horrible
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  Cindy

  3.5 stars
  I am a John Hughes fan so found this parody mashup entertaining. Made me laugh out loud several times.
  Light and fun to listen to.
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  Danielle

  Fun play on 80’s teen drama. Awesome cast. Okay story.
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  Gina

  Cute book. If you’re a child of the 80s and in love with all things John Hughes, you’ll enjoy this spoof of a tale. There’s dark humor and good music along the way.
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  Dawn

  This book ended ok, but it pokes fun of all the 80s classic movies...
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  Carmen

  Kind of sad about this one. Addie was downright annoying. I thought I would enjoy the throwback to the 80s but it was an exact mesh of all the brat pack movies.