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Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto (Hardback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 7 days | |Short Description for Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa PuffsFrom the author of "Fargo Rock City" comes another hilarious and discerning take on popular culture, exploring everything from the crucial role of breakfast cereal to how John Cusack films destroy the modern meaning of love.
Full description- Publisher: Scribner Book Company
- Published: 22 July 2003
- Format: Hardback 256 pages
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- Categories: Popular Culture
- ISBN 13: 9780743236003 ISBN 10: 0743236009
- Sales rank: 948,492
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Full description for Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
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. Countless writers and artists have spoken for a generation, but no one has done it quite like Chuck Klosterman -- with an exhaustive knowledge of popular culture and a seemingly effortless ability to spin brilliant prose out of unlikely subject matter. Whether deconstructing "Saved by the Bell" episodes or the artistic legacy of Billy Joel, the symbolic importance of "The Empire Strikes Back" or the Celtics/Lakers rivalry of the 1980s, Chuck will make you think, he'll make you laugh, and he'll drive you insane -- usually all at once. "Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs" is ostensibly about movies, sports, television, music, books, video games, and kittens...but, really, it's about us. All of us. As Klosterman realizes late at night, in the moment before he falls asleep, "In and of itself, nothing really matters. What matters is that nothing is ever 'in and of itself.'"
