After a bestselling and acclaimed diversion into fiction, Chuck Klosterman, author of Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs , returns to the form in which he\'s been spectacularly successful with a collection of essays about our consumption of pop culture and sports.
But I suspect everybody else will totally love it, except for the ones who totally hate it..
You probably wrote this book.
Do you see a clear relationship between the Branch Davidian disaster and the recording of Nirvana\'s In Utero ? Does Barack Obama make you want to drink Pepsi? Does ABBA remind you of AC/DC? If so, you probably don\'t need to read this book.
Q: Should I read this book? A: Probably.
Also, Lady Gaga.
I get the sense that most of the core questions dwell on the way media perception constructs a fake reality that ends up becoming more meaningful than whatever actually happened.
Not exactly. "What is reality," maybe? No, that\'s not it.
Q: Is there a larger theme? A: Oh, something about reality.
Supposedly there\'s a chapter outlining all the things the Unabomber was right about, but perhaps I\'m misinformed.
I think there are several pages about Rear Window and college football and Mad Men and why Rivers Cuomo prefers having sex with Asian women.
Ralph Nader and Ralph Sampson play significant roles.
I\'ve heard there\'s a lot of stuff about time travel in this book, and quite a bit about violence and Garth Brooks and why Germans don\'t laugh when they\'re inside grocery stores.
There clearly isn\'t a plot.
I haven\'t read it yet--I\'ve just picked it up and casually glanced at the back cover.
Q: What is this book about? A: Well, that\'s difficult to say.
After a bestselling and acclaimed diversion into fiction, Chuck Klosterman, author of Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs , returns to the form in which he\'s been spectacularly successful with a collection of essays about our consumption of pop culture and sports
