Fargo Rock City : A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota by Chuck Klosterman
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Book Summary Author: Chuck Klosterman Edition: Paperback Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published) Published: 2002-05-01 ISBN: 0743406567 Number of pages: 288 Publisher: Scribner |
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Book Reviews of the Fargo Rock City : A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota
Customer Review: Don't Fence Me In
Summary: 2 Stars
Maybe you should know this: I'm not impressed with Dave Eggers. Compared to Chuck Klosterman, though, he's a genius. Because Eggers at least has some sense of the purpose of his irony. Even the Cohen brothers (who by now you wish would just make a serious movie after all) are more heady about their by now boring irony. Ultimately, you get the sense from this book that Klosterman may be as hollow as the music of which he writes. Does he like it? Does he write seriously about it but from a mock ironic distance? Does he find in it some important connection between a culture and the music it celebrates at a specific diachronic moment? Does he think there's something important about the merging of Does he really think the music is important? Or, again, does he want to make fun? I think he finds it safer not to say, leaving his options open.
That's what irony comes down to, I guess, these days: the refusal to stand behind something you write. That seems to be the tradition this book partakes in. So maybe the best you can say about it is that it's too late. He should have written this book when he was the adolescent; maybe then he'd have had something sincere to say about this music.
ps: Lita Ford's "Kiss Me Deadly" is not a good song; it's overpolished, overproduced junk and may actually make Ms. Spears sound edgy. Oh, but maybe Klosterman was joking about the greatness of Ford's tune as great pop.