I'm afraid this wasn't meant for me! It wasn't what I was expecting. The tone wasn't right. What I was expecting to be a good and slightly funny book for bookish was in the end more of a cultural tale surrounding the market of book. The author seem like someone who love to heard himself talk and that was the feelings I had all along. Like when you talk to someone who just talk about himself again and again and again. A bad date! I felt pretentious to me, lot of name dropping. «I was there. I've seen that and I read book you never even heard about.» Sure the author know his subject and have a solid bookworld background, but in a way he remind me of bad teacher, there is a huge difference, a world, between knowing your subject right and being able to pass it on.