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Chuck Klosterman: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs (2004, Scribner) 3 stars

"Countless writers and artists have spoken for a generation, but no one has done it …

A bit too mean for book-length, a few chapters will do.

2 stars

I picked this book up fittingly in a discount music store, and found it amusing in a crude snarky way but stopped halfway through the book and halfway through the chapter ranting about soccer, being a former youth soccer player myself, it was either too much or too much on the nose. I like to indulge in a we were the best generation as much as the next GenX-er, but GenX at its most annoying (when we're not running terrible tech companies or being the characters in Reality Bites) is ironically tearing itself down.