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Title: POISONED EMBRACE, THE : A Brief History of Sexual Pessimism by Lawrence Osborne ISBN: 0-679-42723-6 Publisher: Pantheon Books Pub. Date: 12 October, 1993 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.00

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Average Customer Rating: 3.33 (3 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: elegant essay
Comment: Enjoyed this strange little book, which is one of those Sontag-like essays which take in a lot during a kind of bicycle tour of cultural hang ups - it's slight, but intended to be so.
Of course, you need a sophisticated reader here, with a light sense of humor...

Rating: 1
Summary: Not all that interesting
Comment: THE POISONED EMBRACE is about something called sexual pessimism, which the author never defines adequately so that one can understand what exactly it is that he is refuting and explaining.

Offered here are some nonsensical and boring anecdotes and speculating psycho-babble about some archetypes that are never presented in a coherent light with any percievable "proof of thesis" scheme attached to them.

Rating: 4
Summary: elegant and witty diversion
Comment: This is that unusual mix : a scholarly intellectual polemic which is also hilarious in a dry Brit way - by a young scholar-writer who I hope will soon publish something else soon. The stuff on witchcraft and the conquest of the New World is fascinating and really elegantly done