From the dust jacket- Chuck Klosterman has chronicled rock music, film, and sports for almost fifteen years. He's covered extreme metal, extreme nostalgia, disposable art, disposable heroes, life on the road, life through the television, urban uncertainty and small-town weirdness. Through a variety of mediums and with a multitude of motives, he's written about everything he can think of (and a lot that he's forgotten). The world keeps accelerating, but the pop ideas keep coming.
In Eating the Dinosaur, Klosterman is more entertaining and incisive than ever. Whether he's dissecting the boredom of voyeurism, the reason why music fans inevitably hate their favorite band's latest album, or why we love watching can't-miss superstars fail spectacularly, Klosterman remains obsessed with the relationship between expectation, reality, and living history. It's amateur anthropology for the present tense, and sometimes it's incredibly funny.
Review- Klosterman's essays in this collection are quite varied from sports to music. Within one essay, he will cover a topic, like fans hating their favorites newest album and why the best basketball player is a total unknown. Of course, the real draw the book is Klosterman's writing itself. He is such a good writer that, he makes every topic interesting. The pieces of interviews, at the beginning of each chapter, help set the tone of the chapter and give some insight into what Klosterman is going for within the chapter. Klosterman is my personal favorite essayist at this time and I would recommend him and any of his books.
I give this book a Five out of Five stars. I get nothing for my review and I borrowed this book from my local library.
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