Brad's best book yet. He speaks to my personal life experiences in way that no other contemporary writer, Buddhist or otherwise, does. I find his insights and observations helpful and cleverly presented. Covering everything from dating and the concept of love to more esoteric stuff like BDSM and sex work (including a magnificient interview with Nina Hartley), this book is pretty thorough. Highly recommended! I didn't learn much from this book, though I do sometimes find Brad's quirky footnotes amusing. I appreciate that he's trying to talk openly about topics that a lot of Buddhist teachers refuse to touch. His punk rock/Zen teacher stance is that it's not his job to moralize or judge. Which is fine. I just didn't need to read a whole book about that.Strangely, what I most got out of this book was the inspiration to learn to play Robyn Hitchcock's "Chinese Water Python" on the guitar. I still haven't figured out the tricky middle part though.
The topic itself was fascinating, but I hated the writers way of writing.
—Fish
Brad Warner is a different kind of buddhist I think. Haha.
—madisondonica
Excellent read...very insightful, funny & poignant.
—Kaitlynn97
Loved it!
—Hettie1987
