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A review by azacoholico
How to Become a Scandal: Adventures in Bad Behavior by Laura Kipnis
5.0
I don't usually read stuff that isn't fiction, this book made me think that maybe I should reconsider that aspecto of my literary habits.
Taking us through four cases of scandal, this book reminded me of every time someone makes the news -but not in the good way-. The author made me see that it is completely normal to be held at the tip of our toes every time someone fucks up, and even indulged a little on why we love that stuff in the first place.
The first half of the book is about two cases where people that we used to held in high regards- an astronaut and a judge- plummet to the ground, hurting their public faces hard and even ending in prison. Those two are highly entertaining to read.
As for the last half of the book, it is less funny, it instead concentrates on the responses we, as a society, make against the ones who break our unwritten or unspoken rules. It also has a lot of insight about the human condition and how we expect everyone to remember every single social rule, lest they be ridiculed and humiliated and rejected of our "tribes". Very interesting stuff.
Taking us through four cases of scandal, this book reminded me of every time someone makes the news -but not in the good way-. The author made me see that it is completely normal to be held at the tip of our toes every time someone fucks up, and even indulged a little on why we love that stuff in the first place.
The first half of the book is about two cases where people that we used to held in high regards- an astronaut and a judge- plummet to the ground, hurting their public faces hard and even ending in prison. Those two are highly entertaining to read.
As for the last half of the book, it is less funny, it instead concentrates on the responses we, as a society, make against the ones who break our unwritten or unspoken rules. It also has a lot of insight about the human condition and how we expect everyone to remember every single social rule, lest they be ridiculed and humiliated and rejected of our "tribes". Very interesting stuff.