But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking about the Present as If It Were the Past

from Razinha

I got an early look this through First to Read. I was skeptical with Klosterman's opening salvo (what if we're wrong about gravity?), but I found myself liking his writing style and some of what he had to say...enough that I'll probably go looking for more of his books. Klosterman asks, "Which st...

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Another good group of essays by Chuck. A bit denser than the previous ones and a bit more to wade through on this one. He also goes off on a bit more tangents and rambles in this one. I think his "I Wear the Black Hat" was better than this though; but that's not diminishing this. His essay on th...

from wagner.sarah35

Chuck Klosterman definitely provides ample food for thought in this book, where he tackles plenty of modern questions - from the relatively mundane "what are the great books of our era?" to "how might current democracies collapse?" as long-term trends. As someone who studied history as an undergr...

from Daumari

Finished in the not-quite-wee-hours of the morning. I picked this up from the library the weekend before the election and it ended up being a bit too relevant, at least re: the mountains of thinkpieces and criticism re: why so many people seemed to be wrong in the aftermath. What happened? Is the...

from Kellswitch

I found this book to be very frustrating and ultimately a waste of my time. I agree with the authors main thesis, that we can't really judge our past or look to the future without having our views colored by who and where we are now but every time he tried to explain/defend his point using differ...