Aside from the major issue of how well he dealt with well-established tropes, there was a constant stream of minor irritants that took me out of the story. For example:
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Originally Posted by gmw
I got the impression that he was presenting an America (socially) locked in the 50s, but couldn't work out why.
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And 50s Princeton had no women undergraduates. There were black students at Princeton well before women. Yeah, I know, you can ascribe all anachronisms to its being an AU, but still.
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Now if he'd highlighted that the world had missed out on The Rolling Stones, The Yardbirds, The Beatles, The Animals and more, then maybe we could all see just how big the disaster was and know that history had to be fixed. 
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I've never seen the word
mohel spelled "moil" before. Is that the British spelling? Because I couldn't help thinking that he was trying to emphasize the implications of the band name "Oily-Moily" with that spelling, just in case we missed it. Not all that clever at that, anyway. It's clear we dodged a major one, since the band sounds dreadful.