WARNING: Scathing review lies ahead!
Chuck Klosterman is quite the pistol. I doubt there is a single thing this man doesn't have an opinion about. He will never let someone else win a fight, he will take opponents down with his pigheaded opinions. I sure wouldn't want to date him, how exhausting would that be.
He opens with book whining about how he will never find a soul mate, no girl will ever be good enough for him. Wah wah wah! This guy is a total asshole. The book presents itself to be a study of pop culture themes. It in actuality is the diary of a whining man with strong ideas that often times make not a lot of sense and are heavily based in personal ideas.
Each chapter is an essay with exhaustive references to a particular pop culture icon. One chapter is all about Billy Joel and how he is a part of the authors life, he rants about how nobody understands how deep Billy Joel really is, and how people need to like his less popular songs because that's where the quality lies.
Another chapter is about The Sims, and how he is too good to play the game because he is above video games. Naturally he comes up with some ridiculous excuse as to why he should play it, research. He plays the game and details all of his Sims experiences-including talking with the creator of the game about free will-in a pointless waste of pages.
I wasted time reading this book, I wasted shelf space storing this book. Now I have wasted time writing about this book. Don't waste your time folks.
Posted by Holly
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3 comments:
But, Holly, think how grateful we all are for you wasting your time and not ours. Thanks!!!
Hmmm, this one has become quite popular at the store where I work, I have to wonder why if that's so...
Wow! Thank you for such an honest (and vocal) review. I always appreciated reviewers honest opinions of books, good job on the review.
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