How to Make Love like a Porn Star - Jenna Jameson

I picked this book up (surprise, surprise) purely for the purient appeal. Unfortunately, it was about two hundred pages too long, the story was predicable, the main character not that attractive and deeply uninteresting, and the good bits few and far between.

Kind of like a pornographic film.

Not, of course, that I would have any firsthand experience with those sorts of things (if you're reading this, Mom). But I've heard stuff. Around. About those sorts of things.

Some time ago, during our then-regular breakfasts at Salonica, Jim Leitzel mentioned that he was enthusiastically reading Calvin Trillin's Tepper Isn't Going Out. When I questioned him further about it, he said that he liked it a lot, but seemed reluctant to recommend it. I forgot about it entirely. Yesterday, while browsing used books, I noticed something on the top shelf by Calvin Trillin, though I couldn't see what it was-- Lo and behold, Tepper Isn't Going Out, which I bought "As is" (The book jacket was mangled, but the tome itself was in fine condition.)

Tepper is about a man, Murray Tepper, who lives in New York and likes to park his car in attractive parking spaces (meter fully paid) and read the paper. Oer time he attracts the ire of many Manhattan drivers, a cult following, and the enmity of a Giuliani-parody mayor. The book is the story of how people react to his eccentricity.

I loved it, though it is so difficult to explain why that I now understand Leitzel's reluctance to actively recommend it to others. I suppose it must suffice to say that the book is about the dvision between those who figure that if it's a legal spot then there's no need for him to explain himself to anybody, and those who are convinced that any practice they do not understand, however private, must be sinister.

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