Inspired by an early morning encounter at the gym (thanks, David and Dan!) I'm resurrecting my book-of-the-week correspondence with friends. In the olden days, I just emailed, but now I'm higher-teching it with a blog, hoping to replace my now-finished Building Blog and my all-but-abandoned Hollywood Blog, She Gives Good Story. Stay tuned, and if I burn out on the books, I haven't run out of b-blogging ideas, such as Belben's Berner Blog, body blog, biking blog, b-and-b blog, and blah blah blog.
This week's book recommendation, Vice: Very Naughty Things (And How to Do Them) is one of those that I read for my own personal pleasure but wouldn't add to my high school library even though I know it would be really popular with the kids, given that it deals with swinging, stripping, gambling, conspicuous consumption, lying, and cheating.
Author Peter Sagal, an NPR host, explores the seedy underbelly of not-illegal but still NSFW topics that I think secretly lots of people would like to know more about without, you know, actual experimentation. Sagal's examinations of such places as the Swingers Shack and his visit to a porn-movie set are intelligent, witty, and often very, very funny. Instead of a scientific, sociological or even tongue-in-cheek look at the activities he describes, Sagal personalizes each of his segments and humanizes people we might otherwise judge a little more harshly.
1 comment:
Muy interesante!
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