The Pleasure Police

by David Shaw

The reading public seems to have an insatiable appetite for books pointing out the annoying and infuriating in American life--fromThe Death of Common SensetoIn Defense of ElitismtoI'm Dysfunctional,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385475683
• ISBN13: 9780385475686
• Release Date: May 1996
• Publisher: Doubleday Books
• Length: 307 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.7" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Enjoy yourself - you actually might live longer.

This is a nice bit of naughtiness in an otherwise oh so politically correct world. Shaw shows us that most of what we are taught to be afraid of, in most cases won't hurt us at all. There is a good bit of science to the book, but what carries you along is the daring attitude that life is to be enjoyed, not just prolonged. It's time somebody said all this, and David Shaw says it all clearly, succinctly, and with no small amount of common sense. Go ahead, live a little, read The Pleasure Police, and then don't ever worry about them again.