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A Book of All-New Pop Culture Pieces by Chuck Klosterman

Chuck Klosterman has chronicled rock music, film, and sports for almost fifteen years. He's covered extreme metal, extreme nostalgia, disposable art, disposable heroes, life on the road, life through the television, urban uncertainty and small-town weirdness. Through a variety of mediums and with a multitude of motives, he's written about everything he can think of (and a lot that he's forgotten). The world keeps accelerating, but the pop ideas keep coming.

In Eating the Dinosaur, Klosterman is more entertaining and incisive than ever. Whether he's dissecting the boredom of voyeurism, the reason why music fan's inevitably hate their favorite band's latest album, or why we love watching can't-miss superstars fail spectacularly, Klosterman remains obsessed with the relationship between expectation, reality, and living history. It's amateur anthropology for the present tense, and sometimes it's incredibly funny.

Q: What is this book about?

A: Well, that's difficult to say. I haven't read it yet - I've just clicked on it and casually glanced at this webpage. There clearly isn't a plot. 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. Ralph Nader and Ralph Sampson play significant roles. I think there are several pages about Rear Window and football and Mad Men and why Rivers Cuomo prefers having sex with Asian women. Supposedly there's a chapter outlining all the things the Unabomber was right about, but perhaps I'm misinformed.

Q: Is there a larger theme?

A: Oh, something about reality. "What is reality," maybe? No, that's not it. Not exactly. 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.

Q: Should I read this book?

A: Probably. 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. You probably wrote this book. But I suspect everybody else will totally love it, except for the ones who absolutely hate it.



About the Author

Chuck Klosterman is the New York Times bestselling author of Downtown Owl; Chuck Klosterman IV; Killing Yourself to Live; Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs; and Fargo Rock City, winner of the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award. He is a Contributing Editor for Esquire, a regular contributor to The New York Times Magazine, and has also written for Spin, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Believer, A.V. Club, and ESPN. Klosterman grew up on a farm near Wyndmere, North Dakota. After graduating from the University of North Dakota, he wrote for the Fargo Forum and the Akron Beacon Journal. Klosterman is published in eight territories and seven languages. Klosterman lives in New York City.
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4.0étoiles sur 5 Less funny, more philsophical...but still kind of funny., Oct. 31 2009
Par J. Tobin Garrett (Vancouver, BC) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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Chuck Klosterman's new collection of essays is less funny than his first collection (Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs), and more heavy on the cultural philosophy side of things. This isn't necessarily a bad thing. While I didn't laugh out loud at any parts, there were certain in-the-head chuckles that the book elicited. However, there were times when the jokes seemed inserted into the text only because he thought: well, I should probably put a joke here. I didn't need that. The book is an interesting and readable work of cultural criticism without. That's not to say there aren't some genuinely funny parts, just that there were parts that seemed a bit forced in funniness.

OK, so having not read SD&CP for a few years my memory might be flawed, but it seems this book is more substantial in its philosophy, argument and meaning. While SD&CP was a fun ride, I have forgotten a lot of what was in the book except for an essay on Pamela Anderson's breasts and something about Saved by the Bell. This collection seems a bit different than that, with the main difference being that he puts forward some interesting ideas about things like: why do people submit to interviews? why is our world devoid of literal meaning now? why do we love when famous people muck up?

The books cultural milieus oscillate from music to TV to sports. While I'm not a huge sports fan, I did read both the sports heavy essays in the book, including the very sports heavy essay on football. And it's a tribute to Klosterman's readability and finesse that I read the football one right until the end. The moral of the story is that Klosterman can make almost any topic, even one you care very little about, an interesting read and relevant to you. So, don't skip any of the essays as he does a good job to make sure every reader is included.

The part where the book falters for me is that some of his arguments or philosophical meanderings are based on his personal assumptions about what other people 'mean' or 'think'. This wouldn't be so bad if he didn't present those assumptions as fact most of the time. There were parts when I read the book and I felt a bit distanced from what he was writing because I couldn't help but think: well, how do you know that? If you brush this feeling aside though, the book has some interesting things to say about fame culture, reality, truth, irony, voyeurism, and technology.

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5.0étoiles sur 5 Chuck Does it Again, Nov. 14 2009
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I've awaited another Chuck Klosterman Manifesto for a long while and Eating the Dinosaur does not disappoint. It offers classic Chuck, with his wit and charm, with a new way of organizing his thoughts. Great read.
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