
Chuck Klosterman X
The Audio Companion to a Highly Specific and Defiantly Incomplete History of the Early 21st Century
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Chuck Klosterman
About this listen
New York Times best-selling author and cultural critic Chuck Klosterman presents a unique audio companion for Chuck Klosterman X, in which he contextualizes and reads from the collection of his best articles and essays, providing both a fascinating tour of the past decade and an ideal introduction to the mind of one of the sharpest and most prolific observers of our unusual times.
Klosterman has created an incomparable body of work in books, magazines, and newspapers and on the Web. His writing spans the realms of culture and sports while also addressing interpersonal issues, social quandaries, and ethical boundaries. Klosterman has written nine previous books, helped found and establish Grantland, served as the New York Times Magazine ethicist, worked on film and television productions, and contributed profiles and essays to outlets such as GQ, Esquire, The A.V. Club, Billboard, and The Guardian.
Chuck Klosterman X collects the most intriguing of those pieces, and, for this audio companion, Klosterman offers intimate and exclusive commentary about each piece, telling stories about each one, reading excerpts, and relating unexpected asides and digressions. Subjects include Breaking Bad, Lou Reed, zombies, KISS, Jimmy Page, Stephen Malkmus, steroids, Mountain Dew, Chinese democracy, the Beatles, Jonathan Franzen, Taylor Swift, Tim Tebow, Kobe Bryant, Usain Bolt, Eddie Van Halen, Charlie Brown, the Cleveland Browns, and many more cultural figures and pop phenomena.
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From the kid who brought you Fargo Rock City, the first book in history to garner the praise of Stephen King, David Byrne, Donna Gaines, Sebastian Bach, Jonathan Lethem, and Rivers Cuomo, comes Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, the first book in history to examine breakfast cereal, reality television, tribute bands, Internet porn, serial killers, and the Dixie Chicks.
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A Brilliant Manifesto
- By Nils J. Rasmussen on 01-09-13
By: Chuck Klosterman
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Chuck Klosterman IV
- A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas
- By: Chuck Klosterman
- Narrated by: Chuck Klosterman
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
- Abridged
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Chuck Klosterman IV consists of three parts:
THINGS THAT ARE TRUE
Profiles and trend stories: Britney Spears, Val Kilmer, McDonalds, '70s rock band nostalgia cruises. With new introductions and asides.
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9.6 out of 10
- By Nils J. Rasmussen on 01-23-13
By: Chuck Klosterman
Eh, It was nice.
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a fun companion by Chuck himself.
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Klosterman keeps me thinking
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This is a great companion to the book because its like a behind thebscenes of what his motivations were when he was writing these pieces. The cotext he gives is really great.
Fantastic companion to the book
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Companion to Full Collection
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Retrospective for Fans
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not entire book -analysis by chuck k himself
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Not the full text
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Bait and Switch
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Not the actual book
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