susannah gets it...why not the dopes I know who want to talk about this book?!
Eh, I think a lot of people get it. It's a fun read, he poses some interesting ideas that are humorously phrased, etc. etc. What always strikes me about him (and this was even more true in
Chuck Klosterman IV, which I legitimately disliked) is that he always manages to choose the exact WRONG example (in my opinion) to illustrate his points. Case in point: his essay in defense of
Vanilla Sky. I hated that movie when it came out in 1999 or 2000, and nearly a decade later, I still hate it and think I probably haven't seen a worse movie. Too many terrible lines of dialogue ruled out any deeper philosophical meaning for me:
"The bathroom's over there, next to that girl who looks like Bjork."
"In the next life, I want to come back as the mole on your breasts."
"In the next life, we shall all come back as cats."
Sorry. Indefensibly bad, Klosterman.
That said, though, there's an eerie, lucid quality to his essay about encounters with serial killers, and a poignancy to his essay about the Guns N' Roses cover band, Paradise City.