I agree 100%. I just meant that they were some scary times to be a young person- Reagan's cowboy posturing and B-movie dialogue certainly didn't help.

Speaking as someone who was in high school in 1983, your description of that time period doesn't quite line up with reality.

This is exactly how I felt. Perhaps Buckaroo Banzai would have been a better description rather than James Bond…

I had trouble buying EVERYTHING in the novel, from Hannibal as James Bond, to the ridiculous dinner sequence, to the fairy tale ending of Hannibal and Clarice, together at last. I think the novel Hannibal is possibly the only book I've ever felt angry with by the time I finished- it's almost as if Harris meant to…