Dystopian Nirvana

Today's book (the eponymous Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas) was both a joy and a disappointment. The joy came from Chuck's extremely enjoyable style and ability to tell a amazing tale. Chuck is to non-fiction cultural criticism what the other Chuck (Palahniuk) is to tales of the obscure portions of our fictive subconcious. The less than enjoyable part was that this book is made up of (with one notable section) articles that have already appeared in print.

The book is broken up into three parts, Things that are true (interviews with music celebs), Things that might be true (opinion pieces), and Things that aren't true (the one original piece of somewhat interesting fiction). In general the interviews and opinion pieces are interesting and informative, although there are too many of the former, and not enough of the latter. His opinions are interesting, and the little set-ups that he writes before each piece are worth the price of admission. The work of fiction was interesting, although nothing earth-shattering.

It is a good book, although I liked Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs much better.