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Aug 28, 2006 at 7:24 AM
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The VOX Question Of The Day™ for 8/27 asks: What book(s) are you currently reading or what book did you just finish?

Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story

Chuck Klosterman

I finally finished reading Klosterman's Killing Yourself To Live: 85% of A True Story on Saturday, and, simply put, it's one of my very favorite books. He's used his trek across the country to chronicle places where musicians have died to instead chronicle his relationships with three specific women whom he has written about before and who he encounters here. Killing Yourself is both moving and profound, and at times is mindblowingly depressing in the same way as an episode of House: some people are just meant to be alone—some invite that prospect while others, sadly, can't seem to avoid it.

His next book—Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade Of Curious People And Dangerous Ideas—is being released in hardcover by Scribner this week. It's a collection of his writings for Spin, Esquire, GQ, and other sources. I'm planning on tackling this next.

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This is queue'd up for reading, but I'm worried that it won't live up to Fargo Rock City, which is my favorite one of his thus far. And I didn't realize he had a new one coming out--bookstore here I come.

And not that you asked (or cared), another great book, though sometimes a little trite, about rock music is "Take a Walk on the Dark Side: Rock & Roll Myths, Legends, & Curses". Interesting bits of pop culture in it.

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Chuck Klosterman created a music playlist for Killing Yourself to Live for my blog.

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