Who said Metalheads were not edumacated??????? Chuck Klosterman is an absolutely amazing writer. His masterful storytelling and witty writing style make "Fargo Rock City" an easy and entertaing read even for folks with serious reading comprehension issues (Yes, that would be me) \m/ The first time I picked it up, I seriously could not put it down until it was through. I first read his book about 7 Years ago and just picked it up again earlier this week. Honestly, it was even better the second time around. "Fargo Rock City" is Chuck's personal memoir about growing up a sexually repressed metalhead in rural North Dakota. This has to be one of the funniest books ever written. Please read this if you get a chance....With a voice that flows like one of Yngvie Malmsteen's guitar solos, Klosterman rides upon and tackles the glorious history of the "Metal of Hair", beginning with that fateful day in 1983 when his older brother brought home Mötley Crüe's Shout at the Devil. Many of us can relate to this. I mean...is this not the was that all metaleads born between 1970-1975 were introduced to "The Metal?" The 11 Year old Klosterman was not quite ready to rock on one time as his hair was too short and his farm was too quiet -- but he still found a way to bang his little 5th Grade head. Before the journey was over, he would slow-dance to Poison, sleep as an unkowing Christin Lad beneath pentagrams and inverted crosses, lust for Lita Ford and Janet Gardner and get radiclly intellectual about Guns N' Roses and Metallica. Here he goes again on his own, going down the only road he's ever known....." \m/\m/\m/\m/\m/
I LOVED his "Sex drugs and Cocoa Puffs." He's HI-larious. I'll have to check out this one, for the love of metal.
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