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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/599.Sex_Drugs_and_Cocoa_Puffs_A_Low_Culture_Manifesto?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1157059726m/599.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/599.Sex_Drugs_and_Cocoa_Puffs_A_Low_Culture_Manifesto?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/375.Chuck_Klosterman">Chuck Klosterman</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5695214?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 4 of 5 stars<br/>So Klosterman is cited as a favorite writer by several people who I respect a lot and Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs was a delightful read in kind of a trashy way. It's billed as a "low culture manifesto"-- so I guess that's okay. <br/> <br/>The book is structured as a series of unconnected essays all about pop culture things. His voice is similar to that of David Foster Wallace, but in general, h is less intellectual, (I would argue less insightful), and a little darker. While Wallace (to me) keeps a generally positive attitude, Klosterman strikes me as someone who is pretty depressed (but pretty to to boot). <br/> <br/>All in all, I very much enjoyed the deconstruction of pop culture to find deeper meaning. Alas, I'm a little too young to really get some of these references. <br/> <br/>Fun quotes: <br/> <br/>"Why do you keep saying that... apples and oranges aren't that different really. I mean, they're both fruit. Their weight is extremely similar. They both contain acidic elements. They're both roughly spherical. They serve the same social purpose....So how is this a metaphor for difference? I could understand if you said, 'That's like comparing apples and uranium,' or 'That's like comparing apples with baby wolverines,' or 'That's like the early work of Raymond Carver,' or 'That's like comparing apples with hermaphroditic ground sloths.' Those would all be valid examples of profound disparity. But not apples and oranges. In every meaningful way, they're virtually identical." <br/> <br/>"Yet according ot the affable robots at google.com, there are 6,250 sites on the Internet that prominently include the phrase 'naked housewives.' There are also 7,110 that include hte phrase 'nude housewives,' which I suppose is technically classier. We have 586 that promote 'housewife whores,' while a solid 2,600 offer a more generic alternative ('housewife sluts')... Since one could assume that all of these sites have-- conservatively-- 50 whores apiece, that's a little over 830,000 domestic sexaholics in English-speaking countries all of which can be located in roughly 90 seconds. Considering how few women are still stay-at-home moms, that's quite an accomplishment." <br/> <br/>"Meanwhile, John Kellogg was upset that his brother added sugar to the flake recipe to improve sales, a supplement he believed would liberate the public libido and turn every corn flake aficionado into a raging sexoholic. The Kellogg brothers eventually sued one another... Years later, a trio of Rastafarian elves would promote puffed Rice." <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/30987?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>