Wicked Pleasuresturned my notions of vice/versa. I am enjoying some of the seven deadly sins more but questioning what I once thought of as my virtues. Thanks, Robert Solomon, I needed that.

Sam Keen, author of The Passionate Life, Fire in the Belly and Hymns to an Unknown god

Wicked Pleasures provides some worldly and wise reflections on the seven 'deadly' sins by some of our best writers. These essays should enlighten and maybe delight anyone who has ever fallen prey to the seven deadly ones-which means, all of us.

Douglas Kellner, UCLA; author of Media Culture and Media Spectacle and the Crisis of Democracy

Solomon has compiled seven essays each dedicated to one of the sins. . . . Solomon set no boundaries on the assignment, and the result is a highly entertaining, non-proselytizing, non-academic collection . . . funny, irreverent, and cocky.

Library Journal

Wicked Pleasures is a collection of well-informed, sometimes irreverent essays that reflect upon the so-called seven deadly sins-lust, anger, envy, gluttony, greed, pride, sloth-and in that process explain the hold they have had on the moral imagination of Western Christendom for a millennium. Well-written. Well-edited. A pleasure to read.

Bernd Magnus, University of California, Riverside