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Redball:
Albom, the author of Five People... is a sportswriter here in Michigan. It's definitely worth a read, but I've never read his first one, Tuesdays with Morrie. I read all of The Girl series and saw all three Swedish films with English dubbing. Despite that, preferred the Swedish film to the American Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.
Omega Entity:
We read Tuesdays with Morrie for English class in high school. Awesome book, but damn, it made me cry.
Redball:
Guess I'd better read it. I won't say making me cry is necessarily the mark of a good book, but it's certainly the mark of an engaging one. I was in tears, sobbing -- this belongs in confessions -- when Ayla's Neanderthal mother died in Clan of the Cave Bear and wondered if I was substituting my own mother. For better or worse, I was much more detached when she died more than a decade later.
Is it cold in here?:
_Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origin of Modern Sexuality_, Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha.
They argue, based on comparative anatomy, consistent features of sexual behavior, and study of contemporary hunter/gatherer groups, that humans are not "designed" for lifetime pair bonds but are at heart more like bonobos, sharing partners and child-rearing responsibilities with the other members of a tribe of at most 150 members. In their view, the widespread current paradigm of a man buying exclusive access to a woman is an artifact of the recent change to agricultural societies.
Provocative, and full of horrifying historical material.
Extensively researched, though I'm not qualified to evaluate the quality of their work.
May be worthy of a Discuss thread if anyone else reads it.
ackblom12:
Sex at Dawn is actually a really common book suggested to people looking into non-monogamy/polyamory/etc. I've got mixed opinions on it for that purpose, since I think that Evo-Psych is kind of a horrible basis for relationship advice.
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