By Nicholas Proch

If you believe that you’re the only one who hates the fact that people battle for parking spots at the mall before they proceed to walk for miles inside, you’re mistaken. There’s someone who has thought of that already and is working to make sure that everyone knows about it.

We all like to think that we can observe our surroundings and make informed comments on them. If all of us could write and comment on our social surroundings, we might model ourselves after someone like Chuck Klosterman.

Klosterman critiques, criticizes and praises different aspects of society from chapter to chapter in all of this books and essays. Working in and out of the newsroom, he has a unique perspective on society.

With most of his focus on the entertainment industry, his pointed comments and satirical nature make for a fun read. Before you know it you’ve spent hours reading his work.

His finest collection of essays is Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto.

This ‘low culture’ collection will split your sides as you find yourself laughing out loud. Then you’ll look around and realize you’re alone in your room cracking up at three o’clock in the morning.

The most comparable author to Klosterman has to be Hunter S. Thompson. Both tend to fall in the same category of social observers, but unlike Thompson, Klosterman’s essays are a little easier to read and tend to be humorous, not depressing and rude.

If you’re aspirations are to be a columnist, musician, basketball player, paleontologist or santa claus at the mall during the holiday season, then you should read this book. If you tend to be someone who will just live their life with a blind eye to everything that is going on around them, then don’t read this book, it will open your eyes too much, and you’ll have to see a psychiatrist.