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Original Title:	Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
ISBN:	0743236017 (ISBN13: 9780743236010)
Edition Language:	English

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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.

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Title	:	Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
Author	:	Chuck Klosterman
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	1st Scribner trade paperback edition
Pages	:	Pages: 272 pages
Published	:	July 2nd 2004 by Scribner (first published July 20th 2003)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Writing. Essays. Humor. Culture. Pop Culture. Music. Cultural. Autobiography. Memoir

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I am breaking my personal rule about not rating a book I haven't finished.This guy, whether he is playing a character or being himself, comes across as a pretentious prick who mistakes intellect for wisdom. DNF - threw in the towel at 30% - wish I could get my time back, even if it was just to watch paint dry...it would have been more productive.

I know I'm supposed to be won over by Chuck Klosterman's supposedly keen and cutting insight into pop culture and therefore the modern human experience, but I really just felt like I was at a really dull party and cornered by some annoyingly pseudo-intellectual guy whose sole enjoyment is to contradict and mock anything anyone says just to hear himself talk.

I have recently had a hunger for the genre of "smart people writing about stupid things," and this book is my new favorite example. While Klosterman may not deserve to be considered a subversive genius, he is a very smart person writing very good analysis of very shallow things, and I love it. This collection of essays includes a comparison of Pamela Anderson and Marilyn Monroe to examine the way our cultural attitudes toward sex have changed (nothing groundbreaking, but the essay is earnest and

Okay so I get what Klosterman is doing here, and I can see how plenty of people actually like it. But I did.not.dig.Actually, that is one of my nonsensical pet peeves in my books. Even when I am reading contemporary fiction which one would pretty much assume would have modern references, it just annoys me when author's mention things like Facebook, or IG, or Twitter, or even things like iPods, Jamba Juice, Beyonce, Twilight, etc. I don't exactly know why, but I just think that we can do without

Recommended for: English majors who like to play deconstruction, hipsters who used to make mix tapes,anyone who knows of Lloyd Dobbler, guys who are really into music and didn't get laid until college, the girls who love them Forgive me for what I'm about to do. I'm really not a complete curmudgeon, and I feel nefarious for the review I'm about to give, mostly because everyone I know likes this book, but I simply can't promote all of these essays as refreshingly creative and brilliantly written

From high school through my young adulthood, I was constantly recommended this provocatively titled book. In the year of our lord twenty nineteen, I am able to say I have completed this paperback and it's utter rubbish. Chuck Klosterman writes from a self-important perspective where his tastes are impeccable and women's tastes - particularly those of the teenage and partying variety - are considered pitiable and uninteresting. He has no respect for women. Just to give you a snift, here's a

Klosterman was recommended to me by a friend, and while I'll admit he has some funny bits, he really is that guy at the party who is exceedingly nerdy (in a hipster sort of way) and who thinks he's clearly better than everyone else. And no one -- no one -- should devote the amount of time and attention to pop culture that he does. And this is coming from a girl who gets a regular dose of Perez Hilton every week. I'm his target audience, and yet he still turned me off. He critiques pop culture at