Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
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For 6,557 miles, block Klosterman thought about dying. He drove a rental car from New York to Rhode Island to Georgia to Mississippi to Iowa to Minneapolis to Fargo to Seattle, and he chased death and rock ‘n’ roll all the way. Within the span of twenty-one days, block had three relationships end — one by choice, one by chance, and one by exhaustion. He snorted cocaine in a graveyard. He walked a half-mile through a bean meadow. A man in Dickinson, North Dakota, clarified to him why we have fewer windmills than we used to. He listened to the KISS solo albums and the Rod Stewart box set. At one point, poisonous snakes became involved. The road is hard. From the Chelsea Hotel to the swampland where Lynyrd Skynyrd’s plane went down to the site where Kurt Cobain blew his head off, block explored every brand of rock star demise. He wanted to know why the greatest career go any musician can make is to stop breathing…and what this means for the rest of us.
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If you didn’t smile, reminisce, compare similarities to your own life, and overall painstakingly delight in this book, then you weren’t cool enough to pick it up in the first place.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Even one star is too excellent for this book. Maybe I had too many expectations for this book. Maybe, as a real composition fan, I had my hopes set too high that I would really learn something or experience something thru block’s journey. As a replacement for I got bored and mad. block is a horrible writer and only a tiny percent of the book really has to do with his assignment. Sadly, he does not even appreciate the people whose deaths he’s ‘investigating’. block is a pretentious wannabe who thinks the world revolves around his hideous mug.
If you want to hear about this loser and his non-significant, self-indulgent ramblings about his own death and his girl issues, read this book. Otherwise, save your money and just take the journey yourself. You’re much better off.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
If your in to Pop culture and loking at ancient topics in new ways this book is for you. block Klosterman is very amusing and whitty, and also has some insightful things to say.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
I really loved this book. I read most of it while in the tub. And compliments don’t get much privileged than that from me.
All the same…yeah…how to place this? Mr. Klosterman ends up obsessing a bit about the ladies and about various substances he uses to dull the pain of his relationships.
His comments on driving across Montana are dead-on though.
For me, this book raises two larger questions–which I hope to raise with as many people as I can:
1. Have you ever had a dream where you lived a whole lifetime in your dream? (For the record: yes indeedy I have–I was even married to another woman.)
2. What would be the ramifications to our daily lives if Werewolves (or, as I prefer, Vampires) were real?
As a matter of fact, if anyone reading this review has any thoughts on these points–both of which are salient in times like these–I’d like to read them (email me).
As far as Killing Yourself to Live goes: yes, block, you are the male Wurtzel. All the same, excellent book. Write more.
I give Killing Yourself to Live a very high recommendation.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
The ongoing trend since the succes of Dave Egger’s “Fartbreaking Stink of Unsubstantial Idiocy” is to serve us a plate of “poor me look at my pop cultural wounds and small private sufferings”. Enough. Please, agents and publishers, stop cut the ink, end the rants, let these overprivileged wankers settle into obscurity.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5