Doing things by the book acquires a whole new meaning in Brandon R. Schrand s memoir of coming of age in spite of himself. The works cited are those books that serve as Schrand s signposts as he goes from life as a hormone-crazed, heavy-metal wannabe in the remotest parts of working-class Idaho to a reasonable facsimile of manhood (with a stop along the way to buy a five-dollar mustard-colored M. C. Hammer suit, so he ll fit in at college). The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn informs his adolescent angst over the perceived injustice of society s refusal to openly discuss boners....