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But What If We're Wrong? visualizes the contemporary world as it will appear to those who'll perceive it as the distant past. Chuck Klosterman asks questions that are profound in their simplicity: How certain are we about our understanding of gravity? How certain are we about our understanding of time? What will be the defining memory of rock music 500 years from today? How seriously should we view the content of our dreams? How seriously should we view the content of television? Are all sports destined for extinction? Is it possible that the greatest artist of our era is currently unknown (or - weirder still - widely known but entirely disrespected)? Is it possible that we "overrate" democracy? And perhaps most disturbing, is it possible that we've reached the end of knowledge? Klosterman visualizes the contemporary world as it will appear to those who'll perceive it as the distant past.
Kinetically slingshotting through a broad spectrum of objective and subjective problems, But What If We're Wrong? is built on interviews with a variety of creative thinkers - George Saunders, David Byrne, Jonathan Lethem, Kathryn Schulz, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Brian Greene, Junot Díaz, Amanda Petrusich, Ryan Adams, Nick Bostrom, Dan Carlin, and Richard Linklater, among others - interwoven with the type of high-wire humor and nontraditional analysis only Klosterman would dare to attempt. It's a seemingly impossible achievement: a book about the things we cannot know, explained as if we did. It's about how we live now, once "now" has become "then".
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“Full of intelligence and insights, as the author gleefully turns ideas upside down to better understand them.... This book will become a popular book club selection because it makes readers think. Replete with lots of nifty, whimsical footnotes, this clever, speculative book challenges our beliefs with jocularity and perspicacity.” (Kirkus, starred review)
“Klosterman conducts a series of intriguing thought experiments in this delightful new book.... Klosterman’s trademark humor and unique curiosity propel the reader through the book. He remains one of the most insightful critics of pop culture writing today and this is his most thought-provoking and memorable book yet.” (Publishers Weekly, starred review)
“A spin class for the brain.... Klosterman challenges readers to reexamine the stability of basic concepts, and in doing so broadens our perspectives.... An engaging and entertaining workout for the mind led by one of today’s funniest and most thought-provoking writers.” (Library Journal, starred review)
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Chuck Klosterman IV
- A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas
- De: Chuck Klosterman
- Narrado por: Chuck Klosterman
- Duración: 5 h y 6 m
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Chuck Klosterman IV consists of three parts:
THINGS THAT ARE TRUE
Profiles and trend stories: Britney Spears, Val Kilmer, McDonalds, '70s rock band nostalgia cruises. With new introductions and asides.
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9.6 out of 10
- De Nils J. Rasmussen en 01-23-13
De: Chuck Klosterman
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Eating the Dinosaur
- De: Chuck Klosterman
- Narrado por: Chuck Klosterman, Ira Glass, Errol Morris, y otros
- Duración: 6 h y 39 m
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In Eating the Dinosaur, Klosterman is more entertaining and incisive than ever. Whether he's dissecting the boredom of voyeurism, the reason why music fan's inevitably hate their favorite band's latest album, or why we love watching can't-miss superstars fail spectacularly, Klosterman remains obsessed with the relationship between expectation, reality, and living history. It's amateur anthropology for the present tense, and sometimes it's incredibly funny.
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Brilliant Way To Spend 6.5 Hours
- De Nils J. Rasmussen en 06-21-13
De: Chuck Klosterman
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Killing Yourself to Live
- 85% of a True Story
- De: Chuck Klosterman
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 7 h y 30 m
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For 6,557 miles, Chuck 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 21 days, Chuck 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 field.
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Good, But Not What I Expected
- De Lori en 11-29-06
De: Chuck Klosterman
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Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
- A Low Culture Manifesto (Now with a New Middle)
- De: Chuck Klosterman
- Narrado por: Chuck Klosterman
- Duración: 5 h y 56 m
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From the kid who brought you Fargo Rock City, the first book in history to garner the praise of Stephen King, David Byrne, Donna Gaines, Sebastian Bach, Jonathan Lethem, and Rivers Cuomo, comes Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, the first book in history to examine breakfast cereal, reality television, tribute bands, Internet porn, serial killers, and the Dixie Chicks.
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A Brilliant Manifesto
- De Nils J. Rasmussen en 01-09-13
De: Chuck Klosterman
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Raised in Captivity
- Fictional Nonfiction
- De: Chuck Klosterman
- Narrado por: Chuck Klosterman, Sloane Crosley, Chris Gethard, y otros
- Duración: 7 h y 11 m
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Fair warning: Raised in Captivity does not slot into a smooth preexisting groove. If Saul Steinberg and Italo Calvino had adopted a child from a Romanian orphanage and raised him on Gary Larsen and Thomas Bernhard, he would still be nothing like Chuck Klosterman. They might be good company, though. Funny, wise and weird in equal measure, Raised in Captivity bids fair to be one of the most original and exciting story collections in recent memory, a fever graph of our deepest unvoiced hopes, fears and preoccupations.
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Two Favorite Stories: Fluke & Of Course It Is
- De Austin Pierce en 07-30-19
De: Chuck Klosterman
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The Nineties
- A Book
- De: Chuck Klosterman
- Narrado por: Chuck Klosterman, Dion Graham
- Duración: 12 h y 39 m
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It was long ago, but not as long as it seems: The Berlin Wall fell and the Twin Towers collapsed. In between, one presidential election was allegedly decided by Ross Perot while another was plausibly decided by Ralph Nader. Landlines fell to cell phones, the internet exploded, and pop culture accelerated without the aid of technology that remembered everything. It was the last era with a real mainstream to either identify with or oppose. The ’90s brought about a revolution in the human condition, and a shift in consciousness, that we’re still struggling to understand.
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A Very White Middle-class Take On The Nineties
- De Umar Lee en 02-10-22
De: Chuck Klosterman
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Chuck Klosterman IV
- A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas
- De: Chuck Klosterman
- Narrado por: Chuck Klosterman
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Chuck Klosterman IV consists of three parts:
THINGS THAT ARE TRUE
Profiles and trend stories: Britney Spears, Val Kilmer, McDonalds, '70s rock band nostalgia cruises. With new introductions and asides.
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9.6 out of 10
- De Nils J. Rasmussen en 01-23-13
De: Chuck Klosterman
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Eating the Dinosaur
- De: Chuck Klosterman
- Narrado por: Chuck Klosterman, Ira Glass, Errol Morris, y otros
- Duración: 6 h y 39 m
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In Eating the Dinosaur, Klosterman is more entertaining and incisive than ever. Whether he's dissecting the boredom of voyeurism, the reason why music fan's inevitably hate their favorite band's latest album, or why we love watching can't-miss superstars fail spectacularly, Klosterman remains obsessed with the relationship between expectation, reality, and living history. It's amateur anthropology for the present tense, and sometimes it's incredibly funny.
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Brilliant Way To Spend 6.5 Hours
- De Nils J. Rasmussen en 06-21-13
De: Chuck Klosterman
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Killing Yourself to Live
- 85% of a True Story
- De: Chuck Klosterman
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 7 h y 30 m
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For 6,557 miles, Chuck 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 21 days, Chuck 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 field.
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Good, But Not What I Expected
- De Lori en 11-29-06
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Chuck Klosterman X
- The Audio Companion to a Highly Specific and Defiantly Incomplete History of the Early 21st Century
- De: Chuck Klosterman
- Narrado por: Chuck Klosterman
- Duración: 2 h y 56 m
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New York Times best-selling author and cultural critic Chuck Klosterman presents a unique Audio Companion for Chuck Klosterman X, in which he contextualizes and reads from the collection of his best articles and essays, providing both a fascinating tour of the past decade and an ideal introduction to the mind of one of the sharpest and most prolific observers of our unusual times.
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Buyer Beware
- De Jim Myers en 05-16-17
De: Chuck Klosterman
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I Wear the Black Hat
- Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined)
- De: Chuck Klosterman
- Narrado por: Chuck Klosterman
- Duración: 7 h y 2 m
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In I Wear the Black Hat, Klosterman questions the very nature of how modern people understand the concept of villainy. What was so Machiavellian about Machiavelli? Why don't we see Batman the same way we see Bernhard Goetz? Who's more worthy of our vitriol - Bill Clinton or Don Henley? What was O.J. Simpson's second-worst decision? Masterfully blending cultural analysis with self-interrogation and limitless imagination, I Wear the Black Hat delivers perceptive observations on the complexity of the anti-hero.
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My Favorite Writer Falls a Little Short...
- De Nils J. Rasmussen en 08-20-13
De: Chuck Klosterman
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The Visible Man
- A Novel
- De: Chuck Klosterman
- Narrado por: Annabella Sciorra, Scott Shepherd
- Duración: 8 h
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Therapist Victoria Vick is contacted by a cryptic, unlikable man who insists his situation is unique and unfathomable. Vick becomes convinced that he suffers from a complex set of delusions: Y__, as she refers to him, claims to be a scientist who has stolen cloaking technology from an aborted government project in order to render himself nearly invisible. Unsure of his motives or honesty, Vick becomes obsessed with her patient....
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Hillarious & Disturbing In (almost) Equal Measure
- De Amanda en 11-07-11
De: Chuck Klosterman
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Downtown Owl
- A Novel
- De: Chuck Klosterman
- Narrado por: Phillip Baker Hall, Lily Rabe, Wiley Wiggins, y otros
- Duración: 8 h y 47 m
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Somewhere in North Dakota, there is a town called Owl that isn't there. Disco is over, but punk never happened. They don't have cable. They don't really have pop culture, unless you count grain prices and alcoholism. People work hard and then they die. They hate the government and impregnate teenage girls. But that's not nearly as awful as it sounds; in fact, sometimes it's perfect.
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A Great Listen
- De Harry en 02-21-09
De: Chuck Klosterman
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Consider the Lobster
- And Other Essays
- De: David Foster Wallace
- Narrado por: David Foster Wallace, Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 15 h y 8 m
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Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike's deal, anyway? And what happens when adult video starlets meet their fans in person? David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in essays that are also enthralling narrative adventures.
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How this differs from the other version
- De Jonathan Penley en 12-26-17
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The Lemon Tree (Young Readers' Edition)
- An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East
- De: Sandy Tolan
- Narrado por: Rami Medina
- Duración: 4 h y 42 m
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In 1967, a 25-year-old refugee named Bashir Khairi travelled from the Palestinian hill town of Ramallah to Ramla, Israel, with a goal: to see the beloved stone house with the lemon tree in its backyard that he and his family had been forced to leave 19 years earlier. When he arrived, he was greeted by one of its new residents: Dalia Eshkenazi Landau, a 19-year-old Israeli college student whose family had fled Europe following the Holocaust. She had lived in that house since she was 11 months old.
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ALL FACTUAL
- De Myriam en 05-20-24
De: Sandy Tolan
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60 Songs That Explain the '90s
- De: Rob Harvilla
- Narrado por: Rob Harvilla
- Duración: 9 h y 6 m
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The 1990s were a chaotic and utterly magical time for music, a confounding barrage of genres and lifestyles and superstars, from grunge to hip-hop, from sumptuous R&B to rambunctious ska-punk, from Axl to Kurt to Missy to Santana to Tupac to Britney. In 60 SONGS THAT EXPLAIN THE '90s, Ringer music critic Rob Harvilla reimagines all the earwormy, iconic hits Gen Xers pine for with vivid historical storytelling, sharp critical analysis, rampant loopiness, and wryly personal ruminations on the most bizarre, joyous, and inescapable songs from a decade we both regret entirely and miss desperately.
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My Personal View-Harvilla Rules!
- De Qtsbuster en 11-18-23
De: Rob Harvilla
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Freakonomics
- Revised Edition
- De: Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
- Narrado por: Stephen J. Dubner
- Duración: 7 h y 51 m
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Levitt and co-author Stephen J. Dubner show that economics is, at root, the study of incentives: how people get what they want, or need, especially when other people want or need the same thing. In Freakonomics, they explore the hidden side of...well, everything. The inner working of a crack gang...the truth about real-estate agents...the secrets of the Klu Klux Klan. What unites all these stories is a belief that the modern world is even more intriguing than we think. All it takes is a new way of looking, and Freakonomics will redefine the way we view the modern world.
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Good, but be careful
- De Shackleton en 07-03-08
De: Steven D. Levitt, y otros
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Still Life with Bones
- Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains
- De: Alexa Hagerty
- Narrado por: Rose Akroyd
- Duración: 8 h y 8 m
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Throughout Guatemala’s thirty-six-year armed conflict, state forces killed more than two hundred thousand people. Argentina’s military dictatorship disappeared up to thirty thousand people. In the wake of genocidal violence, families of the missing searched for the truth. Young scientists joined their fight against impunity. Gathering evidence in the face of intimidation and death threats, they pioneered the field of forensic exhumation for human rights.
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Disturbing and Hard to Listen To
- De Alain R Gardner en 06-09-23
De: Alexa Hagerty
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Our Mathematical Universe
- My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality
- De: Max Tegmark
- Narrado por: Rob Shapiro
- Duración: 15 h y 22 m
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Max Tegmark leads us on an astonishing journey through past, present and future, and through the physics, astronomy, and mathematics that are the foundation of his work, most particularly his hypothesis that our physical reality is a mathematical structure and his theory of the ultimate multiverse. In a dazzling combination of both popular and groundbreaking science, he not only helps us grasp his often mind-boggling theories, but he also shares with us some of the often surprising triumphs and disappointments that have shaped his life as a scientist.
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Wow!
- De Michael en 02-02-14
De: Max Tegmark
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Everybody Lies
- Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are
- De: Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, Steven Pinker - foreword
- Narrado por: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Duración: 7 h y 39 m
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By the end of on average day in the early 21st century, human beings searching the Internet will amass eight trillion gigabytes of data. This staggering amount of information - unprecedented in history - can tell us a great deal about who we are - the fears, desires, and behaviors that drive us, and the conscious and unconscious decisions we make. From the profound to the mundane, we can gain astonishing knowledge about the human psyche that less than 20 years ago seemed unfathomable.
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Leave out the politics please
- De Shane Hampson en 02-20-20
De: Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, y otros
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The Office
- The Untold Story of the Greatest Sitcom of the 2000s: An Oral History
- De: Andy Greene
- Narrado por: Brittany Pressley, Holter Graham, P.J. Ochlan, y otros
- Duración: 14 h y 20 m
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When did you last hang out with Jim, Pam, Dwight, Michael, and the rest of Dunder Mifflin? It might have been back in 2013, when the series finale aired...or it might have been last night, when you watched three episodes in a row. But either way, long after the show first aired, it’s more popular than ever, and fans have only one problem - what to watch, or listen to, next. Fortunately, writer Andy Greene has that answer. In his brand-new oral history, The Office: The Untold Story of the Greatest Sitcom of the 2000s, Greene takes listeners behind the scenes.
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Good, but some missing info for the true fan...
- De Molly en 03-29-20
De: Andy Greene
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre But What If We're Wrong?
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- zipadyduda
- 06-21-16
WTF Chuck?
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Dear Chuck,
I was delighted to see a new release from you pop up. And I hear your words in the unique style that is all your own, but instead of your familiar snarky nasally voice, it's a text to speech bot modeled after one of the spice girls. This voice is completely out of place and I keep rewinding it in my head to imagine what it sounds like when you say it.
Next time please just narrate it yourself, even if it takes longer.
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- Matthew
- 07-14-16
Meandering at points, but interesting
Klosterman takes a look at our present presumptions about music, literature, politics, and science and asks the title question "What if we're wrong?" What if The Beatles are not going to be remembered as the greatest rock band? What if football dies away? What or who would replace them?
It's a fun thought experiment, but one that ultimately ended up being too long. I frequently found my mind wander away from the book, and even as I read it my attention was drawn to other things.
Unfortunately, even immediately after finishing the book, there are parts that I have forgotten already. I think a large part of this is because this is a novel with no consequence. Yes, it is important to remain inquisitive about the world; however, this book read like a super-long clickbait article.
There are some interesting theories in here, but I wonder if I'll even remember them when I look back on my 2016 booklist, let alone in the murky future Klosterman writes about.
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- Nils Berglund
- 03-24-18
His best work yet!
an addicting, provocative and well researched piece of media archeology, pop science and cultural anthropology!
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- Holly
- 08-29-18
Wish Klosterman self-narrated!
This was good but would be even better of Klosterman narrated it himself. The narrator is fine though.
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- MC Lars
- 08-23-16
Chuck is back with greatness
Loved this book! Amazing connections and narrative flow, connecting everything from Elvis to tsunamis. Wish Klosterman had read it though, his moments in the narration (very beginning and end) add delicious personality to the text. Download this book!
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- Larissa Bean
- 04-15-18
Eye opening
This is one of the greatest books I've "read" ... Some real eye-opening information that helps you look at reality and your assumptions differently and challenge the status quo.
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- J. Bickett
- 06-11-16
klosterman goes long...
This book is more dense than his erlier work and is driven I suspect by an ambition to go deeper. While full of interesting ideas as always, I bet some would be turned off by this books tone and the less joke peppered conversational style the author is known for. All in all tho I think this is a great effort from a towering intellect. well done sir!
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- John Gunter
- 10-25-16
This book makes you talk a stoner for a few weeks
But What If We're Wrong is a book that humbles you because confronts you not only with how much you don't know, but that so much of what you do know is subject to change and reinterpretation.
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- S. Yates
- 05-23-17
A quirky provoker of thoughts
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Quirky and whimsical set of essays (at least they feel like essays) framing how we think about ideas (literature, music, historical events, science), and how those thoughts morph over time. Into this broad thought experiment, Klosterman explores some beliefs from the past that now seem ridiculous as a way to question what we believe now and how it will be viewed in the future. He admits the impossibility of coming to any firm or even likely conclusions -- for example, he notes that we cannot help but frame future discussions in the parameters of the present day, and attempts to imagine the future are almost always doomed to fail. But the near impossiblity of the task doesn't make the mental gymnastics any less interesting. After logical contortions, extensive hypotheticals, and discussions with experts in a variety of areas, you come away knowing how much you likely don't know and how tenuous our current vantage point is.
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- 01-25-17
Great concept, hard to follow.
It makes me feel terrible to rate the book low, I was very excited to read it based on the description. It was difficult to stick with, I usually don't abandon a book but I could not finish this one. It felt disjointed, like the author went off on a tangent, beat the dead horse, and then finally picked back up. I suppose reading this in the traditional sense would be a better experience. It might just not be a book to have in the audible format.
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