Black, White & Read

Shelf Monkey

Corey Redekop

ECW Press

A very interesting read for nerds and book lovers. So chock full of snobbery and highbrow name dropping, that I plan to reread it so that I construct myself a booklist. To be honest, I didn’t recognize all of the authors and works that were mentioned as being awesome, and also liked a few of the books that were put down, which probably doesn’t say good things about my status as a book nerd.

On top of being about book people finally venting their rage on those they consider to be ruining books with stupid plots, etc, it is also set locally. I found the characters unusual, interesting, and believably self-contradictory. The plot was unpredictable and compellingly odd.

Highly recommended to all, but especially to those that recognize in themselves the tendency to be intellectually snobby.