By Chuck Klosterman

This 2003 tome is a collection of essays about pop culture and sports – with a few departures on life. Klosterman is like your older, pot smoking cousin or the college senior who is always up for a debate on pop-culture. As someone four years younger, we have a lot of the same reruns and music in common. Klosterman loves to take exteremish positions and is Gen X cynical. He is also smart. selfish, and self aware in his writing. I had read some of these essays before (the one on the Left Behind series was probably the one at the time I read it, made me search him out), and the 99cent Kindle price made me grab it.

Several of these ideas have not aged well and some may seem silly. But reading early Klosterman always takes me back to late high school and college conversations.

253 Pages

3.5/5