Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade Of Curious People And Dangerous Ideas
by
Chuck Klosterman
Read April 2007
Copy borrowed from Ramsey County Public Library, Maplewood branch
Essay written June 24th, 2007
I picked this up, among other things, on my first trip to the new Maplewood library building. They decided the old library was too sufficient, so they had to build a new one that sucked a lot more. I won't go into it here, because I wouldn't know where to stop. But I could go into it here if I wanted to, because you know what? I make the rules.
Chuck Klosterman is tons of fun. One of the dust jacket blurbs compared him to Hunter S. Thompson, which I thought required quite a bit of imagination, or at least a glaring unfamiliarity with the writings of either one. But whatever. I knew what I was getting into, and wasn't disappointed.
In the article/essay in this book on the White Stripes, Klosterman describes Jack White as the kind of person who would contradict anything you had to say about him just for the sake of contradiction. The strong desire to be misunderstood. I feel like if I were to try to peg down the writing of Chuck Klosterman I would be so far off the mark also that it would only embarrass myself. Let's just leave it at: I like to read the things he writes.
For whatever reason, when I checked this book out, they library only gave me two weeks for it. All of the other books I checked out that day had three weeks on them. I suspect that there was a request placed on this book that very day but the librarians hadn't gotten around to pulling it off the shelf yet. I can only speculate. It wasn't a problem, because I was done reading this in plenty of time anyway. Just strange. Okay maybe not.
I miss the old Maplewood library.
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