Title: Good premise, poor execution
Product review: The fundamental ideas expressed in this book are important and I applaud the author for recognizing them and bringing them to our attention. I just wish he hadn't done so in such a needlessly wordy and meandering fashion. This book could easily have been limited to the length of an essay and conveyed the same ideas. My biggest gripe, however, is the painful, self-consciously hip way in which the book is written. The author seems to really want to be perceived as extremely cool, and this annoying tendency adds a lot of unnecessary fluff to the book. Word of advice - when you see something on a book jacket that reads (as this one does) "In this hip, erudite manifesto...." just put the book back on the rack, back slowly away, and get the hell out of there.
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