Chinese Summary/中文概要：
除了狗以外，書本也是男人最好的朋友。從事古書買賣長達27年的經驗的Rick，將在本書敘述他個人在書海中獨特的閱讀經驗，當中他特別挑選25本經典著作，以充滿詼諧及犀利的筆觸重新提供讀者另一個鑑賞的方向。
收錄的作品如下：
Dr. Seuss, Horton Hatches the Egg;
Magnus Hirschfeld Sexual Anomalies and Perversions;
Allen Ginsberg, Howl;
J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye;
T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land;
Descartes, Meditations;
David Hume, An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding;
W.B. Yeats, The Collected Poems;
F.R. Leavis, The Common Pursuit;
Matthew Arnold, Culture and Anarchy;
Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test;
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations;
R.D. Laing, The Divided Self;
Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch;
D.H. Lawrence, Women in Love;
A.S. Neill, Summerhill;
Roald Dahl, Matilda;
Alice Miller, Pictures of a Childhood;
A.J. Ayer, Language, Truth, and Logic;
Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams;
Carl Hiaasen, Double Whammy;
Peter Wright, Spycatcher;
Rick Gekoski, Staying Up.(VL)