Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
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| Rating | : | 4.69 (757 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B000WMQGK4 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-07-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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the burnt patch in Rhode Island that used to be a bar where dozens lost their lives thanks to Great White’s trying to re-live th Why do we care about Chuck Klosterman? There is nothing truly remarkable about his life. I disagree with 97 percent of what he has to say about music. The way he holds his political cards close to his chest makes me suspicious. And yet, once I start one of his books, I can’t put it down. Killing Yourself to Live is no exception. It takes us on a drug-fueled odyssey across the United States with stops at famous rock and roll death sites (the seedy hotel where Sid Vicious did himself in; the burnt patch in Rhode Island that used to be a bar where dozens lost their lives thanks to Great White’s trying to re-. He'd be a good "bar" buddy If you are interested in anything Chuck Klosterman has to say, then this book is right up your alley. He talks about the two things he knows about most-- music and himself. I have reviewed him before as my "Brain Candy." It's so good when you read it, but you come away with it with just some empty calories. He is insightful about himself, but I feel duped when I read his books because I feel his sentiments aren't truly sincere. I feel he writes like he's on the debate team--always trying to sway you on to "his side", even though he's not even on his own side. Alas, he seems to have a ton of stories and I'd love to go. Five Stars One of my favorite books every, go on a weird and splintered journey about music and love.
Klosterman also worries his neuroses will brand him as "the male Elizabeth Wurtzel," but he needn't fret. Along the way, Klosterman opines on rock music, never afraid to offend—as when he interprets a Radiohead album as a 9/11 prophecy or reminds readers that before Kurt Cobain's suicide, many preferred Pearl Jam to Nirvana. He applies semifictional techniques to these concerns, inventing an imaginary conversation in the car with three girlfriends that becomes the book's centerpiece. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Despite their shared subject matter of drug use and cultural musing, Klosterman has clearly established that he has a potent voice all his own. The quest to uncover these deaths' social significance is quickly overwhelmed by Klosterman's personal obsessions, especially his agonizing over sexual relationships. From Publishers Weekly Klostermanfollows up on 2003's Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs by expanding on an ar
For 6,557 miles, Chuck Klosterman thought about dying. A man in Dickinson, North Dakota, explained to him why we have fewer windmills than we used to. Within the span of twenty-one days, Chuck had three relationships end-one by choice, one by chance, and one by exhaustion. At one point, poisonous snakes became involved. He drove a rental car from New York to Rhode Island to Georgia to Mississippi to Iowa to Minneapolis to Fargo to Seattle, and he chased death and rock 'n' roll all the way. He wanted to know why the greatest career move any musician can make is to stop breathingand what this means for the rest of us.. From the Chelsea Hotel to the swampl