Keine Ahnung, wer Chuck Klosterman ist. Aber die Buchkritik habe ich sehr gerne gelesen. Könnte ich öfter vertragen, solche Buchkritiken. Hier ein kleiner Ausschnitt:

Klosterman is, quite simply and almost literally, an ass. His soft, saggy face bears a disturbing resemblance to a 50-year-old man’s failing, hairless back end. His tiny, red mouth is a sphincter twisting to a pained close 40 seconds after taking a brutal pounding from Peter North. To round it out, he has a mop of ironically uncombed, dyed-yellow hair and thick-rimmed glasses that look like they were placed on the ass as a frat prank, like a wig and sunglasses thrown on an old jack-o-lantern.

All of which might lend Klosterman some pathos if he didn’t brag so much about his heterosexual conquests and quasi-cynical manipulation of scores of alleged girlfriends. More disturbing are his obsessions with teen and pre-teen pop culture, as exemplified by a creepy essay on Saved by the Bell.

Turning again to his dust-jacket photo, one sees the Chuck Klosterman saggy ass-head attached to a torso wearing a loose, white t-shirt–a t-shirt that looks suspiciously as if it had been stretched in a struggle. I would bet that when that picture was taken, Klosterman was wearing nothing other than that stretched, white t-shirt…and perhaps a pair of black socks.

In other words, he looks like a sex offender. And sentences like "I can’t watch a minute of professional soccer without feeling like I’m looking at a playground of desperate, depressed fourth-graders…"–or "When I say ‘my guys,’ I am referring to a collection of scrappy, rag-tag, mostly unremarkable fourth- and fifth-graders…"–don’t help.

Coming off as a sex offender is one thing. But Klosterman is worse than that: He’s a one-man prose polluter, a living WMD employing the dummy ass-head as a delivery system. And I will forever hate this ass-creature for the pain and suffering he has caused me.

NYPress: The Flip-Flop King: The All-Annoying Eye of Chuck Klosterman via gawker

so sieht das aus.

Das ist wahrscheinlich der Chuck Klosterman, der vor zwei Jahren "Fargo Rock City. A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural Nörth Daköta" veröffentlicht hat. Wurde in der NYT sogar zweimal besprochen [1/2].Dieses wortgewaltig-absurde Ablästern über Klostermans Aussehen ist aber doch nicht der richtige Weg.