Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota

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Simon and Schuster, Nov 1, 2007 - Music - 290 pages
Empirically proving that—no matter where you are—kids wanna rock, this is Chuck Klosterman's hilrious memoir of growing up as a shameless metalhead in Wyndmere, North Dakotoa (population: 498).

With a voice like Ace Frehley's guitar, Klosterman hacks his way through hair-band history, beginning with that fateful day in 1983 when his older brother brought home Mötley Crüe's Shout at the Devil. The fifth-grade Chuck wasn't quite ready to rock—his hair was too short and his farm was too quiet—but he still found a way to bang his nappy little head. Before the journey was over, he would slow-dance to Poison, sleep innocently beneath satanic pentagrams, lust for Lita Ford, and get ridiculously intellectual about Guns N' Roses. C'mon and feel his noize.
 

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Section 1
1
Section 2
7
Section 3
17
Section 4
23
Section 5
36
Section 6
46
Section 7
58
Section 8
68
Section 14
133
Section 15
146
Section 16
178
Section 17
179
Section 18
189
Section 19
200
Section 20
217
Section 21
226

Section 9
80
Section 10
81
Section 11
99
Section 12
114
Section 13
126
Section 22
265
Section 23
273
Section 24
275
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About the author (2007)

Chuck Klosterman is the bestselling author of many books of nonfiction (including The NinetiesSex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, I Wear the Black Hat, and But What If We're Wrong?) and fiction (Downtown Owl, The Visible Man, and Raised in Captivity). He has written for The New York TimesThe Washington PostGQEsquireSpinThe GuardianThe Believer, BillboardThe A.V. Club, and ESPN. Klosterman served as the Ethicist for The New York Times Magazine for three years, and was an original founder of the website Grantland with Bill Simmons. 

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