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Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota | Chuck Klosterman
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Empirically proving that—no matter where you are—kids wanna rock, this is Chuck Klosterman's hilrious memoir of growing up as a shameless metalhead in Wyndmere, North Dakotoa (population: 498). With a voice like Ace Frehley's guitar, Klosterman hacks his way through hair-band history, beginning with that fateful day in 1983 when his older brother brought home Mötley Crüe's Shout at the Devil. The fifth-grade Chuck wasn't quite ready to rock—his hair was too short and his farm was too quiet—but he still found a way to bang his nappy little head. Before the journey was over, he would slow-dance to Poison, sleep innocently beneath satanic pentagrams, lust for Lita Ford, and get ridiculously intellectual about Guns N' Roses. C'mon and feel his noize.
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Mehso-so

I've read almost every one of Klosterman's books, and he writes about music in just about all of them. However, I didn't particularly enjoy the two books where he writes about nothing BUT music, and this one of those two (the other one being Killing Yourself to Live).

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(Continued)...on the bulletin board. It's just nice to see someone doing anything.

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This book has been out since 2007. I am highly embarrassed to admit that I somehow never noticed until now that the cow is supposed to look like Kiss. It's scary. It makes me wonder what else I go through life not noticing.

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Once you're shackled with the perception of ignorance, you can never again comment on anything controversial without getting nailed by everyone who lacks a sense of humor (or wants to punish you for having one).

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What type of girls heavy metal groups liked. Understand that this goes on for three pages.🤣

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#marchintoreading day 8 - #guiltypleasures

Will be a while before I'm comfortable divulging actual guilty pleasures, so here's a book about them instead. #Klosterman was my introduction to deep pop-culture analysis, long before the advent of youtube essayists.

nikirtehsuxlol Really liked Sex Drugs and Cocoa Puffs. Wasn't into But What if Were Wrong 7y
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