![]() She writes about the strongest girl in the world and about a parrot with remarkable communication skills and about treating depression with nine volt batteries. Several are inventors – scientists finding ways to bring food to starving villages, people who have converted their cars to run on french fry grease, engineers developing tools that can be built for pennies and change the lives of people in third world countries. Kennedy writes about people who are changing the world in their own ways. Any ideas you might have had about how this book came into being are wrong – the facts are much stranger than you would have imagined. The title piece tells the story of Alex Comfort, a British biologist and the author of The Joy of Sex, the book that started the sexual revolution. ![]() ![]() ![]() Instead, you get the feeling that she genuinely liked these folks, even the crazy ones.ĭangerous Joy is a collection of essays and magazine pieces on the strange and fascinating people that Kennedy has interviewed and profiled. Most of these people aren’t famous, most of them are a little nuts, all of them are fascinating in their own way, but there is no feeling of condescension, even when she’s talking about folks who are downright weird. She covers quite a range of subjects in The Dangerous Joy of Dr. ![]() I want to buy Pagan Kennedy a beer and maybe a pizza you just know that she’s got fabulous stories to tell. ![]()
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