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Chuck Klosterman IV Look on Amazon.com under the key words "Selling Suits" or "Ricky Rumble" and you'll find, among the Fat Kid Rules the World, Oh My Goth and The
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Look on Amazon.com under the key words "Selling Suits" or "Ricky Rumble" and you'll find, among the Fat Kid Rules the World, Oh My Goth and The Goth Bible: A Compendium for the Darkly Inclined, a collection of essays written for the Ritalin kids pumped up on pop-culture and politics: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas, Chuck Klosterman.
This book follows the format of Sex Drugs and Cocoa-Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto, and Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story, but Chuck had to outdo himself. Inside the front cover, normally where the short and useless summery would be, followed by a synopsis of the boring life of the author on the back, there is this:
THINGS THAT ARE TRUE
Profiles and trend stories: Britany Spears, Radiohead, Billy Joel, Metallica, Val Kilmer, Bono, Wilco, The White Stripes, Steve Nash, Morrissey, Robert Plant-All with introductions and footnotes.
THINGS THAT MIGHT BE TRUE
Opinions and theories on everything from monogamy to pirates to robots to super people to guilt (and of course) Advancement- all with new hypothetical questions and footnotes.
SOMETHING THAT ISN'T TRUE AT ALL
This is new fiction, There's an introduction, but no footnotes. Well, there's a footnote in the introduction, but none in the story.
This is followed by a list of everything else that he has written that the publisher has dubbed important enough for mentioning and a quick mentioning of an audio book and the artist who designed the front cover.
The rest of the book written in the same possibly drug-induced writing style, follows this outline with chapter names such as "The Karl Marx of the Hardwood (November 2005)", or "Garage Days Unvisited (October 2002)". All twisted with sub-chapters, "The Ten Most Accurately Rated Artists in Rock History!" and his "Experience One" through Five, all with the promised footnotes and noted artists.
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