The Black Book [Diary of a Teenage Stud], Vol. I: Girls, Girls, Girls

by Jonah Black

Book Overview

Volumes I and II of The Black Book take us inside the mind of outwardly unassuming Jonah Black. Faithfully reproduced in the manner of the original diary, they comprise a no-holds-barred, darkly comic... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0064407985
• ISBN13: 9780064407984
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: Harperteen
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 24.0" x 4.2" x 6.8"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 and higher

Customer Reviews

Brilliant!!

Diary of a teenage stud is one of the best books I've read in a long time, (along with the Alex Rider books by Anthony Horrowitz). It features a typical teenage boy (Jonah) with a punk-rock/gothic genius sister, distant father and a mother who writes books about teenage sex problems.He returns to Florida from boarding school in Pennsylvania and goes back to his old school, only to find out he must repeat the 11ht grade!The book darts between his fantasies and reality, and it seems as though they are the same to Jonah. Through this diary we are taken to the mixed up world of a teenage boy, and we get a glimpse of what really goes on in their minds.

great book

I thought this was an outstanding book. Black captured my imagination with his wonderful use of words. I felt like I was watching a movie, the way the book put pictures in my head. I recommend this to any teen, boy or girl.

Great Journal style book

This book is very down to earth. It was kinda weird reading it at first because I felt as if I was envading his privacy because all his thoughts and feelings were being spilled to me - a perfect stranger. It was very easy to get interested in. Im a guy and dont like to read too many things, but my girl friend Ashley made me read it and I found that I could actually enjoy sitting down for long periods of time to read. I found that I could relate to most of the problems he had and his friends were just like my friends, except a little weirder. I highly recommend this book. Its inspired me to start keeping a journal of my own so I can keep track of all the things that go on in my life. Thanks Jordan Black(...)

Finally, teen literature that respects its audience.

I can't remember exactly what it was that first drew my attention to this marvelous little book, whether it was the ambiguous title, the reviews on the back cover (all quotes from characters within the book itself) or the photograph of the torso of a scantily-clad female on the front. Whatever it was, it intrigued me enough that I opened up to a random page, only to find what seemed to me like some sort of stream-of-consciousness first person narrative with several brief, unannounced sexual fantasies seamlessly blended into the storyline.Now even more perplexed and, I'll confess, titillated (in my defense, I am a 16 year-old male) I immediately ran to the computer in the bookstore where I work to see if the book was, in fact, what it appeared to be on first glance. Much to my astonishment, all the reviews I read indicated that it indeed was. It was at this point that I realized that the author listed on the cover was eponymous with the title character and that nowhere in either the book itself or in my bookstore's database was he/she identified any further.Of course, at this point I simply had to sit down and read the whole thing. The book consists of only 236 pages of very quick-reading prose, so the time commitment on my part wasn't more than a couple of hours. It only took me a few pages to get used to the very ambitious conceit employed by the author so it was no time before I began to settle into the life of Mr. Jonah Black.I won't worry about giving away any plot points because it doesn't take long before the book begins to hint at these anyway. As the book opens, the title character believes he is beginning his senior year at Don Shula High School in Florida after having been expelled from a Pennsylvania boarding school he had been attending in order to live closer to his father. Now he is living with his mother, a freakishly on-target portrayal of a best-selling self-help "sexpert" and perfectly unbearable to her two teenage children (her favorite expression seems to be, "are you being nice to yourself?"). Jonah's sister is one year younger than he and a veritable genius who has already skipped one grade at her selective magnet school. She also happens to be the most promiscuous girl in her ZIP code and yet manages to convince her clueless mother that, when she goes to visit the entire football team, it's just to help them all study.Meanwhile, Jonah is in for a surprise on his first day back at school. Apparently, his expulsion from the Pennsylvania boarding school precluded his taking the final examination for his German class, resulting in him receiving a "D" grade for the semester. This does not sit well with the administration of Shula High, which specializes in languages, so he must now repeat the eleventh grade. This puts Jonah in the unenviable position of being one year behind his own "little" sister.To make matters worse, Jonah is having severe difficulties with his relationships with the opposite sex. The extent of