"It's far from a puff piece."

I don't really know what that means, but it's what the National Post (in Canada) said about Chuck Klosterman's Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs.

This is a stay up all night to read (with several trips to the bathroom or otherwise you might pee all over yourself) kinda book.

Let me rope you in with his take on Johnny Cash:

Here is the easiest way to explain the genius of Johnny Cash: Singing from the perspective of a convicted murderer in the song "Folsom Prison Blues." Cash is struck by pangs of regret when he sits in his cell and hears a distant train whistle. This is because people on the train are "probably drinkin' coffee." And this is also why Cash seems completely credible as a felon: He doesn't want freedom or friendship or Jesus or a new lawyer. He wants coffee.

Within the mind of a killer, complex feelings are eerily simple.

This is why killers can shoot men in Reno just to watch them die, and the rest of us usually can't.

His latest book, Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas, is up next. If it's anything like this, I'll get back with you in the morning ;)