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Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs : A Low Culture Manifesto by Chuck Klosterman (2004, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherScribner

ISBN-100743236017

ISBN-139780743236010

eBay Product ID (ePID)30272339

Product Key Features

Book TitleSex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs : a Low Culture Manifesto

Number of Pages272 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2004

TopicUnited States / 20th Century, Popular Culture, General, Essays

IllustratorYes

GenreSocial Science, Humor, Literary Collections, History

AuthorChuck Klosterman

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight8.9 Oz

Item Length8.4 in

Item Width5.5 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2003-045535

Dewey Edition21

ReviewsThe Washington Post Maddeningly smart and funny...[Klosterman's] good humor, compassion, and raw associative powers put him in the same league as Nick Hornby and Douglas Coupland, though he's a more tenacious critic than either., Bob Odenkirk ofMr. ShowChuck Klosterman has the time and inclination to think through the issues that you didn't even know were issues. Laugh at him, or with him, or both...but you will laugh, dammit, you will laugh., Gary Shteyngart author of The Russian Debutante's Handbook The funniest thing I've read in an ice age...Chuck Klosterman is a Gulliver among the cult-crit Lilliputians. America should wrap her freckled arms around Klosterman's scrawny neck and press him to her bosom. He may be the last true patriot among us., The Washington PostMaddeningly smart and funny...[Klosterman's] good humor, compassion, and raw associative powers put him in the same league as Nick Hornby and Douglas Coupland, though he's a more tenacious critic than either., Gary Shteyngart author ofThe Russian Debutante's HandbookThe funniest thing I've read in an ice age...Chuck Klosterman is a Gulliver among the cult-crit Lilliputians. America should wrap her freckled arms around Klosterman's scrawny neck and press him to her bosom. He may be the last true patriot among us.

Dewey Decimal306/.0973

Table Of ContentContents 1 This Is Emo (carnivore interlude) 2 Billy Sim (reality interlude) 3 What Happens When People Stop Being Polite (Pat Benatar interlude) 4 Every Dog Must Have His Every Day, Every Drunk Must Have His Drink (Monkees = Monkees interlude) 5 Appetite for Replication (an interlude to be named later) 6 Ten Seconds to Love (metaphorical fruit interlude) 7 George Will vs. Nick Hornby (Ralph Nader interlude) 8 33 (Fonzie recalibration interlude) 9 Porn ("kitty cat as terrorist" interlude) 10 The Lady or the Tiger (hypothetical interlude) 11 Being Zack Morris (50-50 interlude) 12 Sulking with Lisa Loeb on the Ice Planet Hoth (anti-homeless interlude) 13 The Awe-Inspiring Beauty of Tom Cruise's Shattered, Troll-like Face (punk interlude) 14 Toby over Moby (Johnny Cash interlude) 15 This Is Zodiac Speaking (Timothy McVeigh interlude) 16 All I Know Is What I Read in the Papers (boom!) 17 I, Rock Chump (waiting to die interlude) 18 How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found

SynopsisNow in paperback after six hardback printings, the,damn funny..wild collection of bracingly,intelligent essays about topics that aren't quite,as intelligent as Chuck Klosterman(Esquire).,Following the success of Fargo Rock City,Klosterman, a senior writer at Spin magazine, is,back with a hilarious and savvy manifesto for a,youth gone wild on pop culture and media, taking,on everything from Guns'n'Roses tribute bands to,Christian fundamentalism to internet porn.,Maddeningly smart and funny - Washington Post., Now in paperback after six hardback printings, the damn funny...wild collection of bracingly intelligent essays about topics that aren't quite as intelligent as Chuck Klosterman'(Esquire). Following the success of Fargo Rock City, Klosterman, a senior writer at Spin magazine, is back with a hilarious and savvy manifesto for a youth gone wild on pop culture and media, taking on everything from Guns'n'Roses tribute bands to Christian fundamentalism to internet porn. 'Maddeningly smart and funny' - Washington Post', Over half a million copies sold! From the author of the highly acclaimed heavy metal memoir, Fargo Rock City , comes another hilarious and discerning take on massively popular culture--set in Chuck Klosterman's den and your own--covering everything from the effect of John Cusack flicks to the crucial role of breakfast cereal to the awesome power of the Dixie Chicks. Countless writers and artists have spoken for a generation, but no one has done it quite like Chuck Klosterman. With an exhaustive knowledge of popular culture and an almost effortless ability to spin brilliant prose out of unlikely subject matter, Klosterman attacks the entire spectrum of postmodern America: reality TV, Internet porn, Pamela Anderson, literary Jesus freaks, and the real difference between apples and oranges (of which there is none). And don't even get him started on his love life and the whole Harry-Met-Sally situation. Whether deconstructing Saved by the Bell episodes or the artistic legacy of Billy Joel, the symbolic importance of The Empire Strikes Back or the Celtics/Lakers rivalry, Chuck will make you think, he'll make you laugh, and he'll drive you insane--usually all at once. Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs is ostensibly about art, entertainment, infotainment, sports, politics, and kittens, but--really--it's about us. All of us. As Klosterman realizes late at night, in the moment before he falls asleep, "In and of itself, nothing really matters. What matters is that nothing is ever 'in and of itself.'" Read to believe., Over half a million copies sold From the author of the highly acclaimed heavy metal memoir, Fargo Rock City , comes another hilarious and discerning take on massively popular culture--set in Chuck Klosterman's den and your own--covering everything from the effect of John Cusack flicks to the crucial role of breakfast cereal to the awesome power of the Dixie Chicks. Countless writers and artists have spoken for a generation, but no one has done it quite like Chuck Klosterman. With an exhaustive knowledge of popular culture and an almost effortless ability to spin brilliant prose out of unlikely subject matter, Klosterman attacks the entire spectrum of postmodern America: reality TV, Internet porn, Pamela Anderson, literary Jesus freaks, and the real difference between apples and oranges (of which there is none). And don't even get him started on his love life and the whole Harry-Met-Sally situation. Whether deconstructing Saved by the Bell episodes or the artistic legacy of Billy Joel, the symbolic importance of The Empire Strikes Back or the Celtics/Lakers rivalry, Chuck will make you think, he'll make you laugh, and he'll drive you insane--usually all at once. Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs is ostensibly about art, entertainment, infotainment, sports, politics, and kittens, but--really--it's about us. All of us. As Klosterman realizes late at night, in the moment before he falls asleep, "In and of itself, nothing really matters. What matters is that nothing is ever 'in and of itself.'" Read to believe.

LC Classification NumberE169.12.K56 2003