A review by tonythep
Downtown Owl by Chuck Klosterman

4.0

while I find Klosterman's pop culture commentary funny, sometimes he's a bit too...snarky. he's smarter than most of us and he knows it. which is probably why I was pleasantly surprised by his first novel. set in 1983 and 1984, Downtown Owl is full of pop culture references, but they serve to provide texture to the story and the characters, not to judge us on how cool we are. Klosterman's voice might be called both detached and heartfelt. or maybe his detached voice left me alone to feel genuine emotions for his characters. anyway, I read, I laughed, I cared.