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Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs:  A Low Culture Manifesto
Sex Drugs and Cocoa Puffs A Low Culture Manifesto
Author: Chuck Klosterman
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 an almost effortless ability to spin brilliant prose out of unlikely subject matter, Klosterman attacks the entire spectrum of postmodern America: reality TV, Internet porn, Pamela An...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780743236010
ISBN-10: 0743236017
Publication Date: 6/22/2004
Pages: 272
Rating:
  • Currently 3.4/5 Stars.
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3.4 stars, based on 240 ratings
Publisher: Scribner
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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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.
yankerosa avatar reviewed Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto on
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.
reviewed Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto on + 2 more book reviews
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.
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.
sslowe avatar 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.
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I found this book to be excessively strange and a little trippy. Not my favorite, but worth the read.
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could not get into this
reviewed Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto on + 636 more book reviews
This book of essays was pretty funny - the Zack Morris chapter was particularly good fun. And I did enjoy the hypothetical questions, but the book just wasn't up there with my favorites - probably because there were too many references and sections on things that I don't care for, such as The Real World.


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