A review by barjeanne22
Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas by Chuck Klosterman

1.0

After loving Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, I expected to love this one just as much. I was expecting the same series of punchy, pithy short essays. I had to drag myself through the first two-thirds of the book just to find one I halfway enjoyed. As a journalism major, I would have thought I could relate to the stream of essays on sports writing and the like, but it was just tedious. By the time it finally got good, it was the series of hypotheticals in klosterman's classic style that made me want to finish the book, but so many of them I had already read since a friend gifted me the "Klosterman hypotheticals" game a year earlier, and he draws heavily from this collection. In the end, it made me wary of picking up another Chuck book for a while. I thought it was a shoe in for my bookshelf, but I was definitely let down.