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Bezig met laden... Eating the Dinosaur (origineel 2009; editie 2010)door Chuck Klosterman
Informatie over het werkEating the Dinosaur door Chuck Klosterman (2009)
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 Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek.  AshleyVanessaGG | Jul 6, 2020 |    ) myfishpajamas | May 17, 2020 |  ) Joanna.Oyzon | Apr 17, 2018 | If you're writing a time-travel essay, you had better get little things like the plot of Back to the Future 2 right, especially if an argument revolves around what you say happened! Again and again, he pulls out these kinds of factual confusions and mis-judgments until I finally had to stop reading to keep myself from throwing the book against the wall. In retrospect, my warning sign should have been the book getting interesting when Errol Morris showed up for a few pages and talked about his interests and then immediately getting frustrating again once he had left the scene. Still mad. (  ) gregorybrown | Oct 18, 2015 | As is often the case I've been sitting on his first novel, [b:Downtown Owl|2159007|Downtown Owl|Chuck Klosterman|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1348123580s/2159007.jpg|2164522] for a couple of years but have never gotten around to reading it. Looks like I will have to remedy that and pick up a few more of his essay collections in the near future. ( ) dtn620 | Sep 22, 2013 |
 From the lyrics of ABBA and other groups to the best response to social and political allegations of misconduct, this is a hilarious--and pointed--set of cultural observations.  Inevitably, Klosterman’s awkward confessionals creep into the foreground of these essays, nudging aside the heaps of celebrity tabloid fodder he molds like so much Play-Doh. He wonders if anything he does is “real.” He talks about his self-hatred, his insanity, his defeatism, his technophobia, his susceptibility to duplicitous advertising, and even his recreational voyeurism. We learn more about the inner Chuck than we do about greatness, authenticity, technological evils, or the rest of Dinosaur’s shopworn Intro to Culture Studies lecture material. In other words, the once-galvanized heavy-metal monster behind Fargo Rock City now just sounds like a bad emo band. The result is a collection as much about the author and his way of thinking as it is about his topics. In both cases, the author is unique. Funny, irreverent and fascinating--Klosterman at his best. Onderscheidingen
The best-selling author of Downtown Owl and Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs takes a humorous look at expectations versus reality in pop culture, sports, and media, in a book that explores such questions as: Why is pop culture obsessed with time travel?; What do Kurt Cobain and David Koresh have in common?; and much more. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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 Google Books — Bezig met laden...GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)973.92History and Geography North America United States 1901- Eisenhower Through Clinton AdministrationsLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde: (3.73)
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"Nevermind and In Utero are not as different as Cobain had hoped: The songwriting is pretty similar ("Smells Like Teen Spirit" and "Rape Me' are essentially identical, both sounding like Boston's "More Than a Feeling") "
...and it's true. It was as good as his others, and I did skip the 2 chapters in sports (which he knew I would do), but overall I really enjoyed it. (