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...body, soul and mind, drawing from an array of Greek mythology, psychology and astrology before arriving at the juicy bits. So the reader gains a robust sense of a particular sign and its motivations before perhaps learning, for example, that he was "built to deliver that much more bang for the buck." Though it might make some readers blush, Sextrology, packaged with humor and intelligence, is a rare find: a genuinely new take on the planet's oldest pastime. Thank your lucky stars...
...most scientists, but it's especially bad for physicists and astronomers. Those who study the cosmos for a living tend to be bombarded with letters, calls and emails from would-be geniuses who insist they have refuted Einstein or devised a new theory of gravity or disproved the Big Bang. The telltale signs of crankdom are so consistent--a grandiose theory, minimal credentials, a messianic zeal--that scientists can usually spot them a mile...
...body, soul and mind, drawing from an array of Greek mythology, psychology and astrology before arriving at the juicy bits. So the reader gains a robust sense of a particular sign and its motivations before perhaps learning, for example, that he was "built to deliver that much more bang for the buck." Though it might make some readers blush, Sextrology, packaged with humor and intelligence, is a rare find: a genuinely new take on the planet's oldest pastime. Thank your lucky stars...
...think anytime you’re a senior and you play in the Harvard-Yale game, you want to go out with a bang,” Cowan says, “but looking back, I’ll say I don’t have any regrets...
...Charlotte Simmons will get attention for the smutty scenes, of which there are a generous but judicious number (he considered and then omitted a scene involving what he nicely terms, in his courtly Virginia accent, a "gang bang"). But Wolfe's interest is not prurient. His real subject is the nature of identity, of the individual soul (Charlotte's in particular), and whether or not it can survive uncorrupted in the acid storm of sex and alcohol and power and peer pressure into which we ritually plunge our young in the name of higher education. The answer he arrives...