Reviews for The Little blue book

The average rating for The Little blue book based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-02-19 00:00:00 Nathan Hanks This book was like a roommate I had in college. Whenever she walked in, fun ran screaming in the other direction. At least it felt like that. Prurient anticipation aside, any fun I thought I'd have reading this book withered and died the second I opened its pages and read the first few sentences. Terry Gould takes what should be a juicy subject, then analyzes, researches, validates, and chronicles, leaving a Sahara-dry husk gently blown across the courtyard by a summer breeze. And someone drank the last beer. Swinging is alive and well thanks to the internet; this book is hopelessly dated and awfully dull.

Review # 2 was written on 2011-07-08 00:00:00 Min H Mebarkia This is a nice, reasonably comprehensive overview of the culture of swinging. He does a good, solid job of giving an overview of the swinging culture and delving into some of the evolutionary arguments for it - basically making a case that there are good biological reasons why swinging makes sense. And yet, it bored me. It read like a term paper for a Sociology class. Maybe I just read too much, but I didn't find anything new in this book. It's possible I'm not the audience for this book - maybe someone just learning about swinging would find it interesting. I admit, I tend to have a little bit of a bias against swinging culture, so perhaps that colored my experience as well.