Sophia C. reviewed on 9/14/2009 + 289 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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