Title: Adultery in Suburbia
Author: Robert Brooks
Graphic design: Azzato
Yours for: $17
Best things about this cover:
- This title is crying out, begging for a pictorial cover. Maybe I'm supposed to be seeing some kind of funky intercourse in that bathroom-door symbol shenanigans, but I'm not. NOT, I say.
- I want to be a part of this The Affluent Society. It sounds ... affluent. And sexy.
- Kinsey! Sadly, the word "frank" appears nowhere on this book's front or back covers :(
Best things about this back cover:
- Ah, I see we have the requisite "probing deep" claim ... nice.
- Robert Brooks is ruthlessly honest, I tell you. Ruthlessly! You will say "No, don't tell me about the key parties!" and he will shout "Mwahahaha, you can't stop me! Key parties! Hot tubs! Oh the things I will be honest with you about!"
- I love the logic of this back cover: "You will ask yourself 'Can this be true?' and you will have to say Yes because, after all, someone went to the trouble of printing it on paper, which, as we all know, makes things true."
- "You, the intelligent reader..." Oh, you silver-tongued book. Do go on.
Page 123~ [aargh, book is only 122 pages long!; default to p. 23!]
The Monotony of Suburban Living Acts to Make Both Male and Female Restive
That's the title of Chapter 2. Good thing I live in the city itself, and not one of them fancy *suburbs* of Binghamton. I'd hate to be restive.
~RP
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