Dear Chuck Klosterman...

Dead. To. Sportschick.

 

I know.

Well are the other books a little more well rounded?

I listened to The Smiths (I know what he said about them), U2 and REM in high school because I thought hair bands were pretty awful.

Is everything he writes centered around Axle Rose?

 

Love Klosterman. Can't wait to read Downtown Owl. It's next up after Pearlman's Cowboys book, which I am reading in giant chunks because it's so engrossing.

Klosterman's gift is that he can make something that means nothing sound so profound. For example, from the Salon article linked above:

Except that he's not "embroidering it with its exact and glorious meaning." He's making something sound profound when it really means nothing, but it's really so meaningless that readers can make it mean whatever they want. And by doing so, they makes themselves part of a super cool exclusive club where people who don't get it are no-nothings, even though none of it means anything.

 

Haven't read Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs yet, but I read IV over the summer and loved it. His novel will be on my list (there was a good excerpt of it on ESPN.com) and like TSP, I'm also flying through Boys Will Be Boys.

Has anyone here ventured out and tried fiction? I'm starting to give it serious thought.

 

That was the funniest post I've read in awhile. I didn't know what the book was about, bought it and didn't like it because I didn't like the entire idea of the book. Classic. Thanks for chiming in! In other news, I bought Catcher in the Rye, and it had nothing to do with baseball. What a rip.

 

I know it sounds odd, but why tell me half of what I am about to read before I even read it?

If I told you Rocky was a bout a boxer, and it was a very good movie, would you want to know more? Would you want to know every twist until the final fight?

I bought the book thinking it's written about a writer held in high esteem by this board, and it talks about his childhood in Fargo.

I was wrong.

 

Instead of answering the questions, I'm going to go on a three-page rant about the use of horses and special effects in 1980s music videos.

 

My god, yes. Please do. Or should we give that it's own thread?

 

Granny, I just did a spit take at your avatar.

 

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Holy crap, DD.

Well struck.

 

Double D strikes again.
Extremely well played.