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Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

by Chuck Klosterman
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

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From the kid who brought you Fargo Rock City — the first book in history to garner the praise of Stephen King, David Byrne, Donna Gaines, Sebastian Bach, Jonathan Lethem, and Rivers Cuomo — comes Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs — the first book in history to examine breakfast cereal, reality television, tribute bands, Internet porn, serial killers, and the Dixie Chicks.

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 a seemingly effortless ability to spin brilliant prose out of unlikely subject matter. 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 of the 1980s, 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 movies, sports, television, music, books, video games, 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.'"

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"The reigning Kasparov of pop culture wits-matching."  The San Francisco Chronicle

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"Chuck Klosterman has the time and inclination to think through the issues that you didn't even know were issues. Laugh at him, or with him, or both...but you will laugh, dammit, you will laugh." Bob Odenkirk of "Mr. Show"

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"The funniest thing I've read in an ice age....Chuck Klosterman is a Gulliver among the cult-crit Lilliputians. America should wrap her freckled arms around Klosterman's scrawny neck and press him to her bosom. He may be the last true patriot among us." Gary Shteyngart, author of The Russian Debutante's Handbook

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"[M]any of his long argumentative riffs...seem dated and unprovocative. The occasional piece rises above this minor-key white noise....Humorous, slick, aggressively forgettable." Kirkus Reviews

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"If reference-laden tautologies make you run away faster than you can say 'Dennis Miller,' get out your track shoes. Otherwise, this book is Hot Sheet. (Grade: A)" Evan Serpick, Entertainment Weekly

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"Klosterman proves he's a rarity among young pop commentators: He has both a thorough worldview and a way of expressing it without smugness, equivocation, or excessive complaint....[O]ne of the brightest pieces of pop analysis to appear this century." Noel Murray, Onion A.V. Club

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"Maddeningly smart and funny...[Klosterman's] good humor, compassion, and raw associative powers put him in the same league as Nick Hornby and Douglas Coupland, though he's a more tenacious critic than either." The Washington Post

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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"Every relationship is fundamentally a power struggle, and the individual in power is whoever likes the other person less." Wow, that is very interesting and intriguing. I think I could wrestle with that one for a long time.

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Hilarious and witty, Klosterman keeps you entertained. The varying short stories do not lack comedy no matter beginning, middle, or end.

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Lisa Brown , July 29, 2010 (view all comments by Lisa Brown)
i love, laugh, & agree with chuck klosterman about as often as i disagree with &/or feel marginalized by him, which is to say roughly 50% of the time. nevertheless, it's certainly enlightening to meet a republican hipster (if only in print), & he knows his way around a sentence. also, his understanding of print journalism is right on. read this. & if you don't get it, come find me. please. p.s. i primarily feel marginalized by him because he fails to grasp that much of the gen-x experience is equalled shared & embraced by gen-y.

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pumble , January 06, 2010
The funniest, more enjoyable non-fiction you will ever read. Klosterman spans the world of pop culture hitting every interest and genre. I can't think of anyone who wouldn't love at least one or two chapters of this incredible book. He manages to be effortlessly intellectually interesting and thought-provoking when contemplating the mountains of pop culture and shared experiences the US has had over the past couple decades. I've had to buy five copies of this book because I keep lending it out to friends and they never want to return it.

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Shannon Geiger , March 18, 2009 (view all comments by Shannon Geiger)
I discovered this book by accident and am so glad I did. Closterman is a genius. The book made me laugh out loud in every chapter. He is an encyclopedia of pop culture and his tone is easy and conversational. I can't wait to read the rest of his books.

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Kara G. , October 08, 2007 (view all comments by Kara G.)
I can't think any other book that has consistently made me laugh each and every page. Chuck Klosterman's insights into pop culture are amazing. I was hooked from the very first line of the book. -Kara Airport Powell's employee

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ISBN:
9780743236010
Binding:
Trade Paperback
Publication date:
07/02/2004
Publisher:
SIMON & SCHUSTER TRADE
Pages:
253
Height:
.65IN
Width:
5.60IN
Thickness:
.60
Number of Units:
1
Copyright Year:
2004
UPC Code:
2800743236012
Author:
Chuck Klosterman

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