Review: How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like
User Review - Brian Clegg - GoodreadsI have to start this review with a confession and an apology to the author. When the book arrived for review in 2010 (no, not a typo), I was totally fed up with books about different human emotions ... Read full review
Review: How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like
User Review - Jon Mountjoy - GoodreadsThis was an interesting book, drawing on much research, focused on trying to understand how we humans understand pleasure. Fundamentally, it posits that we're essentialists, having his tendency to ... Read full review
Review: How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like
User Review - GoodreadsIt is confusing to me that a book about pleasure could end up being such a shallow and unsatifying read. Perhaps there is some meta-meaning there. Everything for Bloom circles back to essentialism ...
Review: How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like
User Review - Deb - Goodreads*Pleasure runs deep* Why do we enjoy what we enjoy? Why does a bottle of Perrier seem to taste so much better than tap water, and why does that $200 bottle of wine seem to blow Two Buck Chuck out of ... Read full review
Review: How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like
User Review - Sara - GoodreadsI was really excited to read this book, but am disappointed now that I have. The dots just don't seem like they were connected throughout the book. There were so many times while I was reading that I ... Read full review
Review: How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like
User Review - Darla - GoodreadsThis book was fun to read, but I had a hard time with some of Bloom's arguments. It often seemed he came at a subject from limited perspectives, or didn't try to stray far beyond his box. For example ... Read full review
Review: How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like
User Review - Maria - GoodreadsI was intrigued by the title (of course, who wouldn't be) and picked it up hoping it would be a light, interesting read. Was definitely interesting & well written, particularly for an author with such ... Read full review
Review: How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like
User Review - Deanna Knippling - GoodreadsThis a book to stimulate curiosity, not to answer it. Bloom presents several theories on how pleasure works, most of which revolve around the idea that, as humans, we believe that everything has an ... Read full review
Review: How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like
User Review - GoodreadsI had nothing against Paul Bloom's style for the durration of the book. In fact, I rather enjoyed his style and thought his simple language and format would be an adequate way of describing why we ...
Review: How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like
User Review - Ariel Rosen - GoodreadsArt is something that gives most viewers pleasure, and why? That question is explored by Paul Bloom in a humorous but scientifically probing way. He makes the case that art, along with other things ... Read full review
