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Fargo Rock City
A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota  
By Chuck Klosterman
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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.

Kirkus Reviews This is what Lester Bangs would have written had he been a farmboy raised on a diet of Skid Row and KISS. Unfailingly smart and demonically opinionated...
Marc Weingarten author of Station to Station: The History of Rock and Roll on Television Klosterman's hilarious heavy metal odyssey will flick the Bic of every headbanger who's ever found salvation in a great Mötley Crüe riff. His sly, swaggering prose struts across the page like Axl Rose in his prime.
Ronin Ro author of Have Gun Will Travel: The Spectacular Rise and Violent Fall of Death Row Records With a style as hilarious as it is thought-provoking, Chuck Klosterman delivers an authoritative, impressive debut.
Chuck Klosterman:� The Visible Man
Onion AV Club, October 13, 2011
...I Read This A− B+− C+− D+− F Undo Skip Grading Cancel OK Change grade Grade it Author: Chuck Klosterman C Community Grade Fargo Rock City aside, Chuck Klosterman’s work has generally consisted of riffing on whatever subject ...
Chuck Klosterman: ‘The Visible Man’
Kirkus Reviews, October 4, 2011
...As a cultural journalist, Chuck Klosterman has proven almost as polarizing, mainly with older readers, as he is popular, mostly with post-baby boomers, particularly those more prone to embracing Kiss and hair bands than deifying ...
Best of the Decade: Books
Omaha World-Herald, December 29, 2009
...One Day,? ?Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim? and ?When You Are Engulfed in Flames.? Chuck Klosterman wrote mostly about rock ?n? roll, pop culture and his own experiences with the people involved in his five essay and article ...
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