Esme S. (esme) reviewed Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto on + 44 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 7
A friend of mine said that reading Chuck Klosterman is like eating caramel corn. At the beginning, it tastes amazing and seems like the best idea ever, but later on, it might give you a tummyache. Fun, enjoyable, a little self-righteous, but self-consciously so, so it's disarming.
Helpful Score: 6
I grew up near Chuck and am the same age, met him a few years back. He's a great guy and used to write for the High Plains Reader in the Grand Forks, Fargo North Dakota area. That being said, the books is really REALLY lacking in substance, but he knows it. Hence the title. If you are 30 years old or thereabouts... you'll get some good chuckles from a lot of what he writes, but the rest if fluffy.
Helpful Score: 3
A "manifesto" has a message, and Klosterman doesn't -- the book is made up of disjointed essays and commentaries on various aspects of pop culture. Some of his points don't stand up against basic logic and rhetoric tests.
Debra F. (Debobsessed) reviewed Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto on + 11 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
It's okay, at first hilariously funny but for some reason it did not continue to hld my interest, I dunno maybe I just grew up (that's scary) A prefect pool or beach read.
Suzanne S. (sslowe) reviewed Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto on + 80 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
Just know that this is a series of essays. I did not recognize that at first and was looking for coherence. Once I took each chapter as a separate subject I found it very enjoyable and funny, though sometimes my pop-culture references were not up to date.
