Lazy Researcher Review - I haven't laughed out loud for a Bio-Anthropological book in a very long time. Granted it's not a rigorous, peer-reviewed theory and you'd never ever be able to reference it in a thesis or a basic high school essay. PLEASE don't reference this book, it'll be like referencing Wikipedia. But for real this was hilarious. It should have been fiction...alas.

The writing is structured to get you all loosey goosey in la cabeza and willing to hear the alchemical, historical and biological absurdity of human attraction. It reeks of a novelist's flair for the dramatic:
"First we’ll analyze my personal research into what makes het-eros horny.
Then we’ll find out why love turns us into idiots.
Then we’ll find out why idiots in love are the smartest people alive, though they’re too stupid to know it."

Lest we forget that Quirk is the equivalent of a dancer telling a violinist how to play a cello - he has zero credentials for this subject matter but he is a compelling storyteller. 🤷🏻‍♀️I liked it.

Information Accessibility scale
If you're a novice at the topic. Let's look at it like this:
■1.Bob Ross Ease: don't overthink it, paint it and just enjoy vibe.
■2. CrashCourse Youtube: Phil Plait and team bite-size digestible chunks.
■3.Bill Nye, Neil de Grasse Tyson: mass cable style appeal but very edutaining.
■4.Feynman, Hawking, Einstein, Kaku, Curie: data, concept and theory heavy. Degrees non-negotiable.
■5.Christopher Nolanesque: gloriously mind-bending, time-bending, sanity-bending. Basically - fvck your degree and linear thought.
LEVEL: We're firmly at a 1. This was better than a few fiction books I read this month - looking at all you 2's from that short story collection (bloody draining). Way too many quotable pages. My annotating game came right through for a wee hang.

Rabbit hole Worthy or Nah?:
Strangely enough, this provided so much verifued and untested detail in an uncluttered way that I didn't feel the need to go and do some adhoc research. Instead, I cackled, read and then went to read a Romance book to see if all the insane ideas could be spotted in the one genre that lends weight to this book.

Snore inducing or Willing All-nighter
This book moves fast because it's not bogged down by linguistics for Doctors of the PHD and Doctorate variety. It's purpose is to entertain not really educate and keeping the audience awake seems to be a goal in the choice of prose. I read it overnight instead of sleeping.

Spotlight on Theorists
□"The turn-ons are different. A man is attracted to a woman’s ability to grow a baby inside her. A woman is attracted to a man’s ability to grow a baby outside him. How does he do that? Resources." (Chapter: What Women Want)
□"Psychologist David M. Buss pulled off a monumental study of over 10,000 people in thirty-seven cultures". (Why prestige matters )
□"Motherhood is much older than fatherhood. Fatherhood is the male’s imitation of the ancient female instinct to nurture off-spring.". (Color me beyond interested )

Significant Concept/s
■Apparently reading Cosmopolitan "leads to affairs" for a percentage of women in the US.
■ Kamikaze Blocking Manoeuvre: Sperm Teamwork
■Two-Timing orangutans, loyal Gorillas, slutty chimpanzees
■Male Fashion show: Power Suits😉
■The Ache tribe of Paraguay vs The Bakweri Tribe of Cameroon
■The Jerk Gene vs The Catfight Gene
■Chimpanzee Scientist🤣

OVERALL: If you're trying to navigate this ridiculous world on online dating and rules for texting and all that hogwash, you're gonna need wine and fortitude. But if you have that curious little cat lodged in your spirit and want to understand the insanity that is "courting, wooing, besottering" and all the other fancy words (some made up) have a laugh with this one.

StoryGraph Challenge: 1800 Books by 2025
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