The Book of Vices: A Collection of Classic Immoral Tales

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Summary: Keep it if it is a gift - But don't Buy it Yourself!
Review: "The Book of Vices" is a somewhat enjoyable book, but it maintains a much better existance as a coffee-table book to read when you are bored than one to buy for the shear enjoyment of reading. As a collection of mismatched hodge-podge rather than a real book, it can only hold your attention long enough for you to find out that the author's first book, "The Book of Virtues", is much better.

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Summary: Reading is never a sin
Review: A book which is readable, fun and gives you insight to great works of literature is a good book. It won't shock you, it won't bite you but you will end up buying a few good books after you finish reading it. A good buy.

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Summary: Lust(St Augustine,Confessions ) to Gluttony(Virginia Wolf)
Review: This ISBN 1-57322 0006 X(borrowed from the Municipal's Free Library) lent excellent reading to editor Hutchinson's The Book of Vice..with examples on the 7 deadly sins from Lust*(*St Augustine,Confessor's "Da miki castitatem et continentiam,sed noli modo" (translation:"Give me chastity and continence-but not yet") ,to quotes for Avarice,Sloth,Pride,Envy,Anger and Gluttony* (*Virginia Woolf author in "A Room of One's Own "One Cannot think well,love well,sleep well if one has not dined well" )the book gives astuteness to "catechism lessons".