I've finished reading Chuck Klosterman's Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto.
It is no such thing.
It is a collection of essays having little relation to one another save the same author. Topics include touring with a Guns N' Roses tribute band, serial killers my friends have known, and Internet porn, each covered in a tone that can only be described as irritating and peppered with faux insights that just don't measure up to reality. There's the odd funny line, but Klosterman isn't the least bit engaging, and there's no argument made for low culture that I can see at all.
This book should have "Disappointment" written all over it.
But at least it made me happy. Happy that I'd finished it.
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sounds pish - I'll avoid that one.
I've generally found that when books title themselves to include the phrase "low culture" what that usually means is the book is a lazy collection of ramblings on 'things people do', mostly not the things people may be proudly shouting about doing. "Popular" yes; "low" no. One can be the stuff we angage with for entertainment; the other is the trash left over from that.
Avoid.
As I now realize.
Does anyone else get the impression that lisa is a little bit more literate than I?
Well I for one have never had occasion to use the word "angage."
Nor "pish" for that matter.
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