By Chuck Klosterman
In this day in age of instant media and social communicating it feels like we as a society should really be burned out after listening to opinion after opinion about the same song or movie or book or whatever, but I don’t when it comes to Chuck Klosterman. He has peened commentaries and original thoughts in numerous magazines and three of his six books showcase this. His latest Eating the Dinosaur is honestly the best yet.
If you haven’t read any of Klosterman’s work, I don’t suggest you start out with Dinosaur, but with Sex, Drugs and Coco Puffs before diving into this quintessential Klosterman masterpiece. It’s somewhat confusing at first because the book has no real plot or theme, but more of a collective of random musings on subjects such as, “How does it feel when journalists have the tables turned and they are the interviewee?” and “Does the recording of Nirvana’s ‘In Utero’ and the mass suicide of the Branch Davidians in Waco have anything in common?”
It’s the randomness and intriguing points he makes that makes Dinosaur really great. Not since his memoir Killing Yourself to Live have I enjoyed reading him so much.
Andi Said:
on November 26, 2009 at 2:37 am
Fantastic! I want to read this, actually. Along with the “Sex, Drugs and Coco Puffs,” so I’m glad you did a review on it!