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Books : Fargo Rock City : A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North DakotaIn association with Amazon.comby: Chuck Klosterman  List Price: $14.00 Amazon.com's Price: $11.20 You Save: $2.80 (20%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 781.66 EAN: 9780743406567 ISBN: 0743406567 Label: Scribner Manufacturer: Scribner Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 288 Publication Date: May 01, 2002 Publisher: Scribner Studio: Scribner Sales Rank: 53619 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: 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. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Wouldn't be so funny if it weren't all true!Fantastically funny read for anyone who grew up a teenager in the last 80s age of glam rock and heavy metal. Long live Poison, Motley Crue, and GNR! Rating: - Klosterman rocks.Klosterman understands the universe, and why heavy metal had to exist to make it balanced and just. Rating: - Chuck is the manPersonally, Chuck is my top 3 favorite writer. I think he hit me hard with his styles and topics in all of his books. So if you're like me: - Love Rock and/or Heavy Metal music*****this is very important for this book - Enjoy reading about popular culture topics - Love sarcastic and funny books - is in the age range of 18-30 (I'm 24) - Like to explore all kinds od writings and books - is not one who tend to OVERTHINK AND OVERCRITISIZE books and writing ... Read More Rating: - Entertaining Read for Any Hard Rock/Metal FanIf you grew up enjoying hard rock and/or heavy metal of the 80's and early 90's, or are just a fan of that music, then you simply must read this book. It will bring back fond memories of your developing musical tastes and make you laugh out loud. Rating:  - Rattleheads, be warned.I bought this on the recommendation of Martin Popoff, and was terribly disappointed. If you want to read an insightful, entertaining, and fair review of heavy metal, this is most definitely NOT your book. Klosterman's "appreciation" of the form starts and ends with glam. He spends most of the book in postmodern smirky hipster mode, which means he continually trashes the music from a musical point of view, and chooses to battle for its "validity" in the more easily defended realm of "what it meant to ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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