Hipster Olympics
Well, I guess I don't qualify, I failed the two-fingers test.
The acclaimed novel by Corey Redekop, winner of the Gold Medal for Best Popular Fiction Novel at the 2008 Independent Publisher Book Awards. Reviews
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"Corey Redekop's first novel, Shelf Monkey, takes aim at the entire world of books and readers, and manages to hit quite a few targets...
"As a former shelf monkey myself, in exactly the kind of "hypermegabookstore" that Redekop sets his story, I can confirm that his protagonists are embarrassingly real, if exaggerated for the sake of his madcap story. In my experience, book clerks are every bit as overly well read as Redekop's characters, but only sometimes – well, maybe half the time – are they as socially misfit. This is the realm of the book nerd. These people laugh at jokes about ISBN numbers and adopt pseudonyms taken from their favourite novels...
"The book is faintly reminiscent of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest via Fahrenheit 451, but that's only picking out a couple of Redekop's many deliberate borrowings. This he does quite well. If you, too, have read far too many novels or spent any time as a shelf monkey, or like your fiction light and fast, you'll probably enjoy this one, as I did."
Labels: book review, Press, review, Shelf Monkey
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Labels: interview, Press, Shelf Monkey