{"product_id":"9781439168486","title":"Eating the Dinosaur","description":"After a bestselling and acclaimed diversion into fiction, Chuck Klosterman, author of \u003ci\u003eSex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs\u003c\/i\u003e, returns to the form in which he’s been spectacularly successful with a collection of essays about our consumption of pop culture and sports.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eQ: What is this book about?\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eA: 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 \u003ci\u003eRear Window \u003c\/i\u003eand college football and \u003ci\u003eMad Men \u003c\/i\u003eand 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. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eQ: Is there a larger theme?\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eA: 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. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eQ: Should I read this book?\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eA: Probably. Do you see a clear relationship between the Branch Davidian disaster and the recording of Nirvana’s \u003ci\u003eIn Utero\u003c\/i\u003e? 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.","brand":"Scribner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47139953115376,"sku":"9781439168486","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781439168486_p0.jpg?v=1763757656","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781439168486","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}