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Eating the Dinosaur

Written by: Chuck Klosterman
Narrated by: Chuck Klosterman, Ira Glass, Errol Morris, Keith Nobbs, Travis Tonn, Emily Tremaine
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Chuck Klosterman has chronicled rock music, film, and sports for almost 15 years. He's covered extreme metal, extreme nostalgia, disposable art, disposable heroes, life on the road, life through the television, urban uncertainty, and small-town weirdness. Through a variety of mediums and with a multitude of motives, he's written about everything he can think of (and a lot that he's forgotten). The world keeps accelerating, but the pop ideas keep coming.

In Eating the Dinosaur, Klosterman is more entertaining and incisive than ever. Whether he's dissecting the boredom of voyeurism, the reason why music fan's inevitably hate their favorite band's latest album, or why we love watching can't-miss superstars fail spectacularly, Klosterman remains obsessed with the relationship between expectation, reality, and living history. It's amateur anthropology for the present tense, and sometimes it's incredibly funny.
©2009 Chuck Klosterman (P)2009 Simon & Schuster
Popular Culture Essays Arts & Entertainment Music
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Doesn’t disappoint

Once again, Klosterman doesn’t disappoint. Eating the Dinosaur is an other example of the author’s particular way to analyze and interpret American popular culture. And I love that he read it himself, making the listen that much more engaging for the listener. #Audible1

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