Helpful Score: 2
An intricate look at Dr. Kinsey's sex research of the 40s and 50s at Indiana University. Although this novel is fiction, you would never guess it. It reads like a biography. Hard to put down!
Helpful Score: 1
I really liked this book. It was very thought provoking, distrubing, and an illustration of the importance of science in our lives. It also deals with the topic of obession and where obession ultimatly brings us.
I am a fan of Tom Boyle work and I appreciated his style in this book of addressing the once-taboo topic of Alfred Kinsey's research through the eyes of a young man who experiences his sexual and social awakening while working for Kinsey, but I could not get through this one. It sat by the nightstand as a reading in progress for more than a month, but I found myself eventually reading a few pages at a time before putting it down. I finally put it down for good just 2/3 of the way through the story. It is rare that I do not finish a book, but I just could not see the promise of the denouement justifying the effort to get through this one.
