Q: What is this book about? A: Well, thatâ??s difficult to say. I havenâ??t read it yetâ??Iâ??ve just picked it up and casually glanced at the back cover. There clearly isnâ??t a plot. Iâ??ve heard thereâ??s a lot of stuff about time travel in this book, and quite a bit about violence and Garth Brooks and why Germans donâ??t laugh when theyâ??re inside grocery stores. Ralph Nader and Ralph Sampson play significant roles. I think there are several pages about Rear Window and college football and Mad Men and why Rivers Cuomo prefers having sex with Asian women. Supposedly thereâ??s a chapter outlining all the things the Unabomber was right about, but perhaps Iâ??m misinformed.
Q: Is there a larger theme?
A: Oh, something about reality. "What is reality," maybe? No, thatâ??s not it. Not exactly. I get the sense that most of the core questions dwell on the way media perception constructs a fake reality that ends up becoming more meaningful than whatever actually happened. Also, Lady Gaga.
Q: Should I read this book?
A: Probably. Do you see a clear relationship between the Branch Davidian disaster and the recording of Nirvanaâ??s In Utero? Does Barack Obama make you want to drink Pepsi? Does ABBA remind you of AC/DC? If so, you probably donâ??t need to read this book. You probably wrote this book. But I suspect everybody else will totally love it, except for the ones who totally hate it.
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