{"product_id":"eating-the-dinosaur","title":"Eating the Dinosaur","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eEating the Dinosaur\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eChuck Klosterman\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781416544210\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eScribner\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2010\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eReprint\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eAfter a bestselling and acclaimed diversion into fiction, Chuck Klosterman, author of Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, returns to the form in which he's been spectacularly successful with a collection of essays about our consumption of pop culture and sports.Q: What is this book about? A: Well, that's difficult to say. I haven't read it yet--I've just picked it up and casually glanced at the back cover. There clearly isn't a plot. I've heard there's a lot of stuff about time travel in this book, and quite a bit about violence and Garth Brooks and why Germans don't laugh when they're inside grocery stores. Ralph Nader and Ralph Sampson play significant roles. I think there are several pages about Rear Window and college football and Mad Men and why Rivers Cuomo prefers having sex with Asian women. Supposedly there's a chapter outlining all the things the Unabomber was right about, but perhaps I'm misinformed. Q: Is there a larger theme? A: Oh, something about reality. \"What is reality,\" maybe? No, that's not it. Not exactly. I get the sense that most of the core questions dwell on the way media perception constructs a fake reality that ends up becoming more meaningful than whatever actually happened. Also, Lady Gaga. Q: Should I read this book? A: Probably. Do you see a clear relationship between the Branch Davidian disaster and the recording of Nirvana's In Utero? Does Barack Obama make you want to drink Pepsi? Does ABBA remind you of AC\/DC? If so, you probably don't need to read this book. You probably wrote this book. But I suspect everybody else will totally love it, except for the ones who totally hate it.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Scribner","offers":[{"title":"Eating the Dinosaur | Chuck Klosterman | Paperback | 9781416544210 | Used: Very Good | Essays 1676245","offer_id":50794504519938,"sku":"1676245","price":21.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/71qN7qkBX8L.jpg?v=1792361272","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/eating-the-dinosaur","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}