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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

Tasy Cereal....but with an aftertaste:

"Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs" is an essay collection that draws comparisons between popular culture and important social and interpersonal issues. It also happens to be extremely witty at times. Chuck Klosterman is a writer for Spin magazine, so he clearly knows pop culture and can write quality essays. The best of his work here truly encapsulates life. Who cannot relate to this quote? - "Every relationship is fundamentally a power struggle, and the individual in power is whoever likes the other person... more info

One of the year's best...:

Chuck Klosterman's "Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs" is the 27th book I've read this year, and only Jonathan Franzen's "The Corrections" and Alison Burnett's "Christopher" rank higher in my list of delightful, insightful, brilliant books. I ask two things of books-- that they force me to stop everything I'm doing to finish them, and that they have something new about life to tell me. I am often disappointed on both counts.

"Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs" is full of brilliant insights; the kind that you wish you... more info

Meh:

It was impossible to read these essays and not imagine that they were typed as spouted, realtime, by a smart, overcaffeinated english major sitting on a couch in a dormitory. You can almost see the (cheap, industrial) carpeting and hear the 'k-cchunk' of the vending machine in the background.

This can be fun, but what we all learned in college is that it's important not to take couch-speaker-guy's opinions as seriously as he takes them. That's the case here, too. Klosterman guesses at things when ninety... more info

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