books about: snob

books about: snob

books:

Snob

Samantha the Snob (Step-Into-Reading, Step 3)

Kathryn Cristaldi

Random House Books for Young Readers, 1994

Loved it!
My daughter told me that the book reminds her of what she went through in school. And it taught her a great deal in reading it. I love her for her strength. I love the general direction of the book.

Death of a Snob (Hamish Macbeth Mysteries, No. 6)

M.C. Beaton

Fawcett, 1992

Christmas in the Highlands
The holidays are not starting out too well for Constable Hamish Macbeth, he has time off but nowhere to go, Priscilla is totally immersed in running the family-home-turned-hotel and he's coming down with a cold. Things begin to look up when a friend of Priscilla ...

The Rock Snob's Dictionary: An Essential Lexicon of Rockological Knowledge

David Kamp, Steven Daly

Broadway, 2005

File on shelf between "Psychotic Reactions..." and "Shakey"
This is a fantastic, compulsively readable little book that's both funny, snide and surprisingly informative. But, then again, I'm one of those jerks this was apparently written for. It's safe to assume a pair of rock snobs also wrote it. Only a rock snob could ...

The Wine Snob's Dictionary: An Essential Lexicon of Oenological Knowledge

David Kamp, David Lynch

Broadway, 2008

Food Snobs who need wine help
We are food snobs but do not know enough about wine. This book elevates us to the perfect wine/food snob duo. It is the go to book for all dinner parties.

Pish Posh

Ellen Potter

Philomel, 2006

"Pish Posh"
This is an exciting thriller with many things going on. It's never a boring book and always busy, and unlike most books wonderfully written from the beginning. In the main story, well it's more like three stories, different things happen with exciting adventures ...

The Film Snob*s Dictionary: An Essential Lexicon of Filmological Knowledge

David Kamp, Lawrence Levi

Broadway, 2006

You might be a Film Snob
Can you name all five movies John Cazale was in? Do you own all five on dvd? Can you name the documentary about John Cassevetes available from Criterion? Can you name any of his movies? Have you seen more than one? Can you name at least three movies Bud Cort ...

Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies: A Guide to Language for Fun and Spite

June Casagrande

Penguin (Non-Classics), 2006

Grammar snobs beware!
I'm not an English major or teacher, but an engineer who occasionally writes technical and marketing literature. Although I've always had a keen grasp of tricky English rules and exceptions, at times I still fumble with such details as "which" vs. "that" and "three" ...

Snobbery: The American Version

Joseph Epstein

Mariner Books, 2003

Very interesting topic. There are not many books written about Snobbery in all it forms.
We've all experienced snobbery in one form or another. Its interesting to see the categories of snobbery broken down. Joseph Epstein has an insight and intelligence I have not experienced before, reading his books is like being let in on the secrets of human ...

The Food Snob's Dictionary: An Essential Lexicon of Gastronomical Knowledge

David Kamp, Marion Rosenfeld

Broadway, 2007

Marvelous fun if you're a foodie
The foodie mystique unmasked. This book has all the trivia that a real foodie needs to know, presented in a fun format!

Snobs

Julian Fellowes

St. Martin's Griffin, 2006

A modern day "House of Mirth"
Snobs is one of the best novels I've read in years. The heroine is torn between a hunky actor with no money or status, and a boring Earl that can give her the comfort and stability (not to mention the title) that she so desperately desires. A modern-day The House of ...

Am I A Snob: Modernism and the Novel
Sean Latham

Cornell University Press, 2003

Is there a "great divide" between highbrow and mass cultures? Are modernist novels for, by, and about snobs? What might Lord Peter Wimsey, Mrs. Dalloway, and Stephen Dedalus have to say to one another? Sean Latham?s appealingly written book "Am I a Snob?" traces the evolution of the figure of the snob through the works of William Makepeace ...

On This Rockne: Notre Dame's Knight Brothers Are About To Tackle Football Fanatics, Scholarly Snobs, And A ...

Ralph McInerny

St. Martin's Paperbacks, 1998

Slightly Skewed Emphasis
I liked this book much better than the other reviewers did ... except for the fact that McInerny doesn't seem to want Notre Dame to win a football game! (I've read all of them in this series I can find, and the author features a game in each one ... and they're always ...

The Book of Snobs

William Makepeace Thackeray

Norilana Books, 2008

Filler Material?
I usually like Thackeray's works a lot. That's why I didn't hesitate to buy this. Book of Snobs seemed to be something he wrote to break in a new pen; or maybe he had promised a publisher something on a deadline and ran out of ideas. Parts are humorous, but I was ...

Snobs, Nobs and Yobs: a Classy Guide to Australia: A Classy Guide to Australia
Sue Hart-Byers

Lothian Books

Theory of the Leisure Class, 2008

According to Veblen, beginning with primitive tribes, people began to adopt a division of labor along certain lines. The "higher-status" group monopolized war and hunting while farming and cooking were considered inferior work. He argued this was due to barbarism and conquest of some tribes over others. Once conquerors took control, they ...