Vanessa F. (ataraxia) reviewed The Book of Vice: Very Naughty Things (and How to Do Them) on + 19 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 3
This book takes a lot of the mystique out of voluntary vices. After reading it, I felt somewhat jaded. In the end, men are the same, chicken with whatever sauce tastes the same, the house will win in the end, and porn stars are faking the ecstacy.
Sophia C. reviewed The Book of Vice: Very Naughty Things (and How to Do Them) on + 289 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 3
Don't believe the subtitle -- this book is no instruction manual for vices, defined by the author as activities with social disapprobation, actually experienced pleasure, and shame afterwards. Best known for his NPR radio show Wait Wait ... Don't Tell me!, Peter Sagal offers instead very witty and psychologically astute insight into the world of sex (swingers clubs, strip clubs, and pornography studios), eating, lying, consumption, and gambling. The self-professed vanilla author visits places where such vices take place, interviews its participants, and writes up why people indulge in such behavior. With footnotes. Albeit a tourist's view of very naughty behavior, one can't help but be entertained by the tour guide.
Helpful Score: 1
This book was entertaining in parts (at least the subject matter was), but I thought it drug on for too long. The last few chapters were boring.
