SOAPST and Rating

S(speaker)

The speaker is Chuck Klosterman. He is a well thought out cross examiner of post modern pop culture found in American society. He analyzes human interaction with the world around us with common connection to the audience.

O(occasion)

The occasion is set in the time period of right now.  It deals with this generations developmental defects and patterns. 

A(audience)

I think the intended audience to read this book is people ranging from teenagers to the early thirties because it is an interesting topic to read about, and to see in depth the impact of society in the communities lifestyle. But not so much much as for those older or younger than the selected age group to enjoy.

P(purpose)

To put his two cents in to our ever changing society. To envelope those who read his book to understand and accept his thoughts and views on this time period and what we have become as a human race.

S(style)

T(tone)

Drama and whole heartedness. This is what I would say to describe how he set the mood and tone for the book. Drama because in order to get this point across you have to mean what you say and stand behind your words. This goes along with whole heartedness, you need to yourself except what you’ve written. One example would be on page one where he talks about how no woman could ever satisfy him, but that that was ok because he could not satisfy any woman. But although he is now happily married, he will still stand behind his remarks, and really he cannot back out of his words because they have been published forever.

I would give this book a 5 out of 5 happy faces :) because it really did interest me in a way no other non-fiction book has and it was a really good topic to have read about.

Summary

Summary of Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs* by Chuck Klosterman
*Low-Culture Manifesto

Delve into the world of post modern American culture and be ready to analyze the world around you in a broader sense that most just brush off their shoulders. Klosterman attacks the aspects of pop culture and how our mind has been clouded from reality. Every individual carries around a story that continues to be written with every choice and decision they make, and as an accumulative society, we write our history with the choices we make as a community. Klosterman examines how with those who do not live up to the expectations of how we present ourself to the rest of the world, are considered outcasts, for example, on television they show beautiful girls ruling society, and this puts the imagine into young girls minds to conform to society’s image of realistic success. As the book progresses, he incorporates his own personal lifestyle to the writing, while in a creative way displays the claim he wants to get across.  

The book also includes passages that depict how everything relating to “freedom” comes with a routine and as human beings we are tied down with the process of living. We are enslaved by our unique culture of perfection meeting the border of reality in which there is a very slim separation. This new generation is growing up exposed to a false gimmick called the American Dream, which has now transformed into false love, fake body image and stereotypical biases. Get ready to be exposed in your way of life and the lives of others as Klosterman analyzes the post-modern American.