Seven ill-advised books for your Valentine
On Thursday, many loving couples will be saying Happy Valentine's Day! Some will be giving flowers or chocolates or spa visits or home-cooked meals or meals out at fancy restaurants -- all in the spirit of love. And there is probably someone -- maybe just one person -- who will find an academic, feminist take on pornography truly titillating. But in case you're making a swift visit to a bookstore for a last-minute gift, beware: The following books are not recommended as gifts for Valentine's Day.
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'How to Live Together'( Columbia University Press )
Sure, "How to Live Together" looks like a book about compatibility, but it's by French literary theorist Roland Barthes and "focuses on the concept of 'idiorrhythmy,' a productive form of living together in which one recognizes and respects the individual rhythms of the other. He explores this phenomenon through five texts that represent different living spaces and their associated ways of life."
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