Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto [Paperback]

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There's quite a amount of intelligent analysis and thought-provoking insight packed in the pages of Chuck Klosterman's Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, which is somewhat surprising considering how darn stupid most of Klosterman's subject matter actually is. Klosterman, one in the few members of the so-called "Generation X" to proudly embrace that label along with the stereotypical image of disaffected slackers that frequently accompanies it, takes the reader on a witty and highly entertaining tour through servings of pop culture not usually subjected to analysis and presents his thoughts on Saved through the Bell, Billy Joel, amateur porn, MTV's the Real World, and a lot more. It will be easy in dealing with such subject matter to simply pile on some undergraduate level deconstruction, make a few jokes, and have yourself a clever little book. But Klosterman goes deeper than that, often employing their own life spent like a member with the lowbrow target demographic to measure the cultural impact of his subjects. While the novel never quite lives up on the use from the word "manifesto" inside the title (it's really more of an survey blended with aspects of memoir), there's much here to entertain and illuminate, particularly passages for the psychoses and motivations of breakfast cereal mascots, the real difference between Celtic fans and Laker fans, and The Empire Strikes Back. Sections over a Guns n' Roses tribute band, The Sims, and soccer feel more like magazine pieces included to fill space than part of a cohesive whole. But when you're referring to a magazine based on a area of cultural history so reliant over a lack of attention span, even the incongruities feel somehow appropriate. --John Moe

There's a great deal more cold cereal than sex or drugs in Klosterman's nostalgic, patchy assortment of pop cultural essays, which, despite sparks of brilliance, does not cohere. Having graduated through the University of North Dakota in 1994, Klosterman (Fargo Rock City) seems never to get left that point or place behind. He is an ironically self-aware, trivia-theorizing, unreconstructed slacker: "I'm a `Gen Xer,' okay? And I Also buy shit marketed to `Gen Xers.' And I Also use air quotes once i talk.... Get over it." The essay topics speak for themselves: the Sims, The Actual World, Say Anything, Pamela Anderson, Billy Joel, the Lakers/Celtics rivalry, etc. The closest Klosterman gets to the Twenty-first century is Internet porn and the Dixie Chicks. This can be a shame, because he's can be a skilled prose stylist which has a witty, twisted brain, a photo-perfect memory for entertainment trivia and has real chops like a memoirist. The book's best moments arrive when he eschews argumentation web hosting history. In "George Will vs. Nick Hornby," a tired screed against soccer suddenly comes your when Klosterman tells the story of how he was fired from his high school summer job as being a Little League baseball coach. The mothers wanted their sons to get equal playing time; Klosterman wanted "a run-manufacturing offensive philosophy modeled after Whitey Herzog's St. Louis Cardinals." In a chapter on relationships, Klosterman semi-jokes that they has only "three plus a half dates price of material." Remove all the dated pop culture analyses, and Klosterman's book has enough material for around half an extremely great memoir.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers towards the Hardcover edition.




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