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    <body><![CDATA[...and Mr. Klosterman and I officially fall in love. If you're going to date me, you should read this book. If you want to learn how to smoke marijuana resin using parts of your car, you should read this. Don't read this book if you have epilepsy.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I got a comment on an article once that said &quot;Fuck Chuck Klostermand and his bullshit intellectualism, Cook is the new crown prince of music journalism&quot; and who am I to disagree with SeductiveBarry's astute assessment? Ever since then, though, I've had a weird rivalry with Chuck Klosterman...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6997962">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I wanted this book to be a Sarah Vowell's &quot;Assassination Vacation&quot;-style account of the US history of rock n roll deaths as narrated by the typically witty Chuck Klosterman.  That seemed like that's what this book was going to be. BUT IT WAS NOT. <br/><br/>RNR history occupies maybe 2% o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8415262">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Why do we care about Chuck Klosterman?  There is nothing truly remarkable about his life.  I disagree with 97 percent of what he has to say about music.  The way he holds his political cards close to his chest makes me suspicious.  And yet, once I start one of his books, I canâ€™t put it down.  Kill...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1269092">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[When I first saw that this book was apparently about rock n roll and traveling across the country to visit the death sites of many of rock n roll's finest, I was very intrigued. However, I was not very far into this train wreck when I started dreading having to read it through. Being &quot;85% of a ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62489769">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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