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Books : Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 781.660973
EAN: 9780743264464
ISBN: 0743264460
Label: Scribner
Manufacturer: Scribner
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 272
Publication Date: June 06, 2006
Publisher: Scribner
Studio: Scribner
Accessories: Related Items:
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
For 6,557 miles, Chuck Klosterman thought about dying. He drove a rental car from New York to Rhode Island to Georgia to Mississippi to Iowa to Minneapolis to Fargo to Seattle, and he chased death and rock 'n' roll all the way. Within the span of twenty-one days, Chuck had three relationships end -- one by choice, one by chance, and one by exhaustion. He snorted cocaine in a graveyard. He walked a half-mile through a bean field. A man in Dickinson, North Dakota, explained to him why we have fewer windmills than we used to. He listened to the KISS solo albums and the Rod Stewart box set. At one point, poisonous snakes became involved. The road is hard. From the Chelsea Hotel to the swampland where Lynyrd Skynyrd's plane went down to the site where Kurt Cobain blew his head off, Chuck explored every brand of rock star demise. He wanted to know why the greatest career move any musician can make is to stop breathing...and what this means for the rest of us.
Rating:
- Fantastic
I'm not into pop culture as much as those around me, but this book was interesting and hysterical. I like the book so much, if Klosterman ever dies tragically, I might trek to the place of his demise.
Rating:
- "Death Rides a Pale Horse but I will Drive a Silver Ford Taurus."
3 ½ stars
Let's be clear. I am a huge Klosterman guy. I've read Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs several times and quote it liberally. But this book had too much Chuck and not enough dead musicians. It was an inspired premise. Put Chuck in a rented silver Taurus with 300 CD's and send him to the all of the famous music death sites across America. I was anxious for our most entertaining cultural analyst's reflections on fame, narcissism, drugs, music and death. The thing is, that's ... Read More
Rating:
- And now, more about me...
So very po-mo. Ostensibly about a writer at Spin visiting places where rock stars died. However, that was just a sub-plot as the book was about Chuck Klosterman. It was somewhat interesting but seemed like more of a blog than a book.
Rating: - The Flying V Neck of Books...Lives On
Chucky K, as I like to call him, does what any good writer should do, keeps the reader engaged and turning the pages from beginning to end. Is Chuck a Nick Hornby, David Eggers, Elizabeth Wurtzel? Well, of those three I've read A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and watched the movie High Fidelity based on the book High Fidelity: A Novel of course. And my wife read Prozac Nation (Movie Tie-In) and then we promptly watched Prozac Nation together in which Christina Ricci does a great acting ... Read More
Rating: - I can't state enough how much I put into this book
Killing Yourself to Live is a stand out in Klosterman's career. It is not his Spin writings, it is not Fargo Rock City, it is not Sex Drugs and cocoa Puffs, it is a stand out. You don't always have to agree with Klosterman's ideas on music, movies, pop culture ideas. Instead, take the book for what it is, a story about relationships. After reading this book, I took a long hard look at the women in my life and really thought long and hard about the lessons that I could learn from this book.
... Read More
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Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
by: Chuck Klosterman
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Dewey Decimal Number: 781.660973
EAN: 9780743264464
ISBN: 0743264460
Label: Scribner
Manufacturer: Scribner
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 272
Publication Date: June 06, 2006
Publisher: Scribner
Studio: Scribner
Accessories: Related Items:
- Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
- Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas
- Fargo Rock City : A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota
- Downtown Owl: A Novel
- I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
For 6,557 miles, Chuck Klosterman thought about dying. He drove a rental car from New York to Rhode Island to Georgia to Mississippi to Iowa to Minneapolis to Fargo to Seattle, and he chased death and rock 'n' roll all the way. Within the span of twenty-one days, Chuck had three relationships end -- one by choice, one by chance, and one by exhaustion. He snorted cocaine in a graveyard. He walked a half-mile through a bean field. A man in Dickinson, North Dakota, explained to him why we have fewer windmills than we used to. He listened to the KISS solo albums and the Rod Stewart box set. At one point, poisonous snakes became involved. The road is hard. From the Chelsea Hotel to the swampland where Lynyrd Skynyrd's plane went down to the site where Kurt Cobain blew his head off, Chuck explored every brand of rock star demise. He wanted to know why the greatest career move any musician can make is to stop breathing...and what this means for the rest of us.
Average Rating: 
Rating:
- FantasticI'm not into pop culture as much as those around me, but this book was interesting and hysterical. I like the book so much, if Klosterman ever dies tragically, I might trek to the place of his demise.
Rating:
- "Death Rides a Pale Horse but I will Drive a Silver Ford Taurus." 3 ½ stars
Let's be clear. I am a huge Klosterman guy. I've read Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs several times and quote it liberally. But this book had too much Chuck and not enough dead musicians. It was an inspired premise. Put Chuck in a rented silver Taurus with 300 CD's and send him to the all of the famous music death sites across America. I was anxious for our most entertaining cultural analyst's reflections on fame, narcissism, drugs, music and death. The thing is, that's ... Read More
Rating:
- And now, more about me...So very po-mo. Ostensibly about a writer at Spin visiting places where rock stars died. However, that was just a sub-plot as the book was about Chuck Klosterman. It was somewhat interesting but seemed like more of a blog than a book.
Rating:
- The Flying V Neck of Books...Lives OnChucky K, as I like to call him, does what any good writer should do, keeps the reader engaged and turning the pages from beginning to end. Is Chuck a Nick Hornby, David Eggers, Elizabeth Wurtzel? Well, of those three I've read A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and watched the movie High Fidelity based on the book High Fidelity: A Novel of course. And my wife read Prozac Nation (Movie Tie-In) and then we promptly watched Prozac Nation together in which Christina Ricci does a great acting ... Read More
Rating:
- I can't state enough how much I put into this bookKilling Yourself to Live is a stand out in Klosterman's career. It is not his Spin writings, it is not Fargo Rock City, it is not Sex Drugs and cocoa Puffs, it is a stand out. You don't always have to agree with Klosterman's ideas on music, movies, pop culture ideas. Instead, take the book for what it is, a story about relationships. After reading this book, I took a long hard look at the women in my life and really thought long and hard about the lessons that I could learn from this book.
... Read More
Arts & Photography • Biographies & Memoirs • Business & Investing • Children's Books • Comics & Graphic Novels • Computers & Internet • Cooking, Food & Wine • Entertainment • Gay & Lesbian • Health, Mind & Body • History • Home & Garden • Law • Literature & Fiction • Medicine • Mystery & Thrillers • Nonfiction • Outdoors & Nature • Parenting & Families • Professional & Technical • Reference • Religion & Spirituality • Romance • Science • Science Fiction & Fantasy • Sports • Teens • Travel •
