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Artvoice Weekly Edition » Issue v5n6 (02/09/2006) » Section: Book Reviews


Kiss and Tell: A Trivial Study of Smooching, by Kevin Dwyer

While there’s certainly nothing trivial about the act of kissing itself, everything about this little volume is trivial—it’s length, it’s content, it’s scope ... which isn’t really a problem when you consider the book’s self-effacing subtitle. What Dwyer is trying to achieve is a fun, if cursory, look at the history of kissing from Classical times all the way up to Monica Lewinsky kissing Bill Clinton (no, not that kiss). He does an admirable job of achieving that end, too, and, thankfully, without including a single how-to on lip-locking.



The Hookup Handbook, by Andrea Lavinthal and Jessica Rozler

Ladies: If, as a single female, your idea of a really great Saturday night on the town does not include hours traversing various hot-spots on the Chip strip, clad either in too-tall heels, a too–short skirt, or a dangerously low-cut top, The Hookup Handbook probably isn’t your best bet for a helpful read. However, for the hordes of you that typically migrate downtown each weekend night, crowding Buffalo’s deserted city streets with cosmo-fueled abandon, Lavinthal and Rozler’s guidebook to the newest way to “get together” will be, at the very least, an entertaining read. At its best, this anti-self-help book is a must-read for those in the game; offering hilarious insight, useful tips and dirty jokes. It’s hilariously funny only if you’ve (shamefully) experienced the many, all-to-common and oftentimes unappealing situations described in the text.





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