By Chuck Klosterman

I like Chuck Klosterman, he’d hate to hear it, but I’d love to sit down and have a beer with him. I’ve called him “your older, college-educated, stoner cousin.” That general idea is not unique to me. Here he examines the 90’s as only he could – discussing what he considers the “90’s” to be. Examining the historical, musical, and other pop culture impact and reexamination of the decade where I graduated high school and went to college.

The book meanders through irony, earnestness, Nirvana, the Matrix, Friends, Frasier, and Seinfeld…along with the Clinton years and the reunification of Germany. And like all Klosterman books or articles (or podcasts for that matter) there are ideas I like and agree with, some I disagree with, and some that make me wonder what he was smoking through the 90s….

Also, I am always interested in the cultural blind spots he has verses what seemed important to me during this same period. I enjoyed the book, but wish I had someone to have a casual bar conversation about it.

384 Pages

4.25/5