Somewhere, somebody is having more fun than you are. Or so everyone believes. Peter Sagal, a mild-mannered, Harvard-educated radio host -- the man who puts the second "l" in "vanilla" -- decided to find out if it's true. From strip clubs to gambling halls to swingers clubs to porn sets and back to the strip clubs (but only because he left his gl... more »

ISBN-13: 9780060843830
ISBN-10: 0060843837
Publication Date: 10/1/2008
Pages: 272
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Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Sophia C. reviewed The Book of Vice: Very Naughty Things (and How to Do Them) on 9/14/2009 + 210 more book reviews

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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.

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