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Chuck Klosterman IV

A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas

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Chuck Klosterman IV

By: Chuck Klosterman
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Coming off the breakthrough success of Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs and Killing Yourself to Live, bestselling essayist and pop culture critic Chuck Klosterman assembles his best music journalism and media commentary previously unavailable in book form—including the groundbreaking 1996 piece about his chicken McNuggets experiment, his uncensored profile of Britney Spears, and a previously unpublished short story—all recontextualized in Chuck’s unique voice with new intros, outros, segues, and masterful footnotes.

Chuck Klosterman IV consists of three parts:

Things That Are True—Profiles and trend stories: Britney Spears, Radiohead, Billy Joel, Metallica, Val Kilmer, Bono, Wilco, the White Stripes, Steve Nash, Morrissey, Robert Plant—all with new introductions and footnotes.

Things That Might Be True—Opinions and theories on everything from monogamy to pirates to robots to super people to guilt, and (of course) Advancement—all with new hypothetical questions and footnotes.

Something That Isn’t True At All—This is old fiction. There’s a new introduction, but no footnotes. Well, there’s a footnote in the introduction, but none in the story. Popular Culture Nonfiction Celebrity Funny Witty Biographies & Memoirs Social Sciences Art & Literature Authors Essays Journalists, Editors & Publishers

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"One of America's top cultural critics." -- Entertainment Weekly
"Mr. Klosterman makes good, smart company." -- The New York Times
"He's perfect junk food for the soul." -- The Los Angeles Times Book Review
Insightful Observations • Cultural Commentary • Unique Writing Style • Time Capsule Essays • Thought-provoking Content

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I enjoy this guy. He is charming is an acerbic kind of way. He keeps me engaged and often entertained, like a literary Howard Stern or a drunken David Sedaris. The fact that he read this himself makes this work (and also contributes to his own self-obsession). The ending story, though, really takes an odd turn, and not because of the one in a billion event that fictionally happens to him. Usually he reports on a fringe lifestyle or waxes on the virtues of some brainless celebrity, but here he shows us this life that I took to be basically his own-- and it is ugly and dispiriting. It was much like being forced to watch the sex tape of Dustin Diamond, better known as "Screech" from Saved by the Bell (a favorite of his).

Still, he is fun. Just perhaps start with "Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs" to fully understand his charrm first before you try to injest some of the discussion here.

What's up with Chuck?

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If you're GenX, Kosterman is your guy. If not, you may not get it.

This Guy Gets It..

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Chuck Klosterman has quickly become one of my new favorite authors still currently doing work today. He ranks among the best. I especially recommend this book to anyone who is a fan of David Sedaris. Similar in many ways but Klosterman has a special charm to his writing that you can't find anywhere else.

9.6 out of 10

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Not his best work; disappointing middle 1/3 is made up for with great finish.. less insight/intellect more superficial restatements of passing & peripheral gulity pleasures of recent pop culture

worth the time/ price; not his best work

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The first story is a bit boring but hang in there. It is well worth it. Chuck Klosterman is hilarious.

Chuck is the man!

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