burning like matchsticks in the face of the darkness

I read Perks i think my first year in college and liked it well enough, though not hardcore like some people. It felt very late 80s/early 90s, and also very reminscent of a certain niche of the zine culture i was familiar with, so it felt familiar and like i could "get" it. Catcher, in contrast, felt very 40s/50s (which makes sense, of course, given that it was first published in 1951).