Synopses & Reviews
Somewhere, somebody is having more fun than you are. Or so everyone believes. Peter Sagal, a mild-mannered, Harvard-educated NPR host the man who put the second "L" in "vanilla" decided to find out if it's true.
From strip clubs to gambling halls to swingers clubs to porn sets and then back to the strip clubs, but only because he left his glasses there Sagal explores exactly what the sinful folk do, how much they pay for the privilege, and exactly how they got those funny red marks. He hosts a dinner for three of the smartest porn stars in the world, asks the floor manager at the oldest casino in Vegas how to beat the house, and indulges in molecular cuisine at the finest restaurant in the country. Meet liars and rich people who don't think consumption is a disease, encounter the most spectacular view ever seen from a urinal, and say hello to Nina Hartley, the only porn star who can discuss Nietzsche while strangers smack her butt.
With a sharp wit, a remarkable eye for detail, and the carefree insouciance that can only come from not having any idea what he's getting into, Sagal proves to be the perfect guide to sinful behavior. What happens in Vegas and in less glamorous places is all laid out in these pages, a modern version of Dante's Inferno, except with more jokes.
Review
"Although my husband is a fan of Peter Sagal, host of NPR's weekly news quiz show, Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me, he won't need to spend much time reading Sagal's The Book of Vice: Very Naughty Things And How to Do Them. I've already read most of it to him out loud." St. Petersburg Times
Synopsis
The host of National Public Radios popular game show Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me provides a clever guide to excessive misbehavior and the culture of vice. Fabulously entertaining, this guilty bit of voyeuristic pleasure will appeal to readers of David Sedaris and Sarah Vowell.
About the Author
Peter Sagal is the host of Wait Wait . . . Don't Tell Me!, the NPR news quiz. He is also an award-winning playwright, occasional screenwriter, onetime extra in a Michael Jackson music video, former staff writer for a motorcycle magazine, and a regular contributor to "The Funny Pages" in the New York Times Sunday Magazine. Sagal lives near Chicago with his wife and three daughters. This is his first book.