The result is a book that has less Klosterman in it than any of his previous works, but in a way that will please longtime fans as well as newbies and skeptics. The point is not how Klosterman personally recalls the ’90s, but to take the decade on its own terms, less a defense of the decade than a fair assessment. The book, Klosterman’s 12 th, has fewer flights of fancy and arch hypotheticals by design, it’s much more straightforward and matter-of-fact. The Nineties is much more high-concept than the typical Klosterman book: It’s his attempt to assess a whole decade from the inside out, focusing more on how the decade was actually experienced than how, 22 years later, we’ve decided we want to remember it. “There are many people who could have done a book like this,” Klosterman says, and there’s an element of truth to that. But one person who absolutely does not think that is Chuck Klosterman. It’s tempting to say that The Nineties is the book that Chuck Klosterman, Generation X’s definitive chronicler of culture, music and digressive footnotes for nearly two decades now, was born to write.
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