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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
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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
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27 Book Reviews submitted by our Members...sorted by voted most helpful

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.
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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.
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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.
SouthWestZippy avatar reviewed Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto on + 265 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Parts of this book are very interesting and funny. Others feel like a bash fest or whine session at the physicist office. Over all not my cup of tea.
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Funny, funny book. Some parts more interesting and quotable than others, but worth the read.
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Funny, light reading. Pop culture philosophy.
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Couldn't get past the first chapter. Not my type of book
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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
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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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As someone who grew up in the late 80's/early 90's, this book had me laughing out loud. Although I do not agree with the authors sometimes outrageous claims about society, He sure knows how to make a point using funny and obscure references. Such as the entire chapter on 'Saved by the Bell'. That in itself is worth reading the book.
loveleah avatar reviewed Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto on + 12 more book reviews
I am not typically a quitter...I usually make it through a book no matter what. But this one was an exception. It was off to a great start, but crashed and burned so quickly.
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This is an interesting account of current American culture.
bigrachwoowoo avatar reviewed Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto on + 23 more book reviews
This book is funny, and sometimes thought-provoking. It's not meant to be a call to arms or anything, it's humor. This is the kind of book that you'll reference to in a conversation with your friends.
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I think this is the best book I have read by this author. I have not liked his other books as much as this book.
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I read this book after hearing many rave reviews, and was disappointed. It was interesting, but I found many parts of this book to be trite, and at times downright irritating.
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this book is very funny i read it in the bahamas a few wekks ago.
reviewed Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto on + 15 more book reviews
With a witty and sarcastic voice, Chuck Klosterman reviews today's pop-culture society in essays and humerous interludes.
reviewed Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto on + 3 more book reviews
funny!! Kept me coming back...
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a funny compilation of essays about hipster stuff
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I tried to read it, but didn't get very far.
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Its a fun book to read. It has some funny parts to it, but moslty its just interesting to see what he has to say about pop culture
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Interesting if eclectic collection of essays on pop culture. Klosterman's viewpoint is sometimes insightful, sometimes annoying, sometimes makes you think, but should never be mistaken for something profound.
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clever, hilarious.
maryamy avatar reviewed Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto on + 7 more book reviews
Absolutely love this book!!!