Skipping Towards Gomorrah

The Seven Deadly Sins and the Pursuit of Happiness in America

By: Dan Savage

Narrated by: Dan Savage

In Skipping Towards Gomorrah, Dan Savage eviscerates the right-wing conservatives as he commits each of the Seven Deadly Sins himself (or tries to) and finds those everyday Americans who take particular delight in their sinful pursuits. Among them:

• Greed: Gamblers reveal secrets behind outrageous fortune.
• Lust: "We're swingers!" - you won't believe who's doing it.
• Anger: Texans shoot off some rounds and then listen to Dan fire off on his own about guns, gun control, and the Second Amendment.

Combine a unique history of the Seven Deadly Sins, a new interpretation of the biblical stories of Sodom and Gomorrah, and enough Bill Bennett, Robert Bork, Pat Buchanan, Dr. Laura, and Bill O'Reilly bashing to more than make up for their incessant carping, and you've got the most provocative audiobook of the fall.

©2002 Dan Savage (P)2013 Audible Inc.

Excellently written and narrated!

He reads it himself. That by itself is worth an extra star or two. I'd have given it five stars for story either way.

I'm sure you could get as much data into a good blog post, but this is waxing poetic and going deep on some experiences that a lot of people will never try themselves, maybe they should, maybe they shouldn't, either way this is worth a listen.

A shock! A good shock

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

Yes! Open your mind and listen. You don't have to agree.

What did you like best about this story?

Honesty

What does Dan Savage bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

His spirit.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Yes

Any additional comments?

You may be pissed you will probably laugh or maybe be confused yet most of all will be smiling all the way through. This is a smart listen book where straight, right, middle or left will do something great. Help you think... a solid imho must listen! Thank you Dan and Audible.com.

funny, insightful and worth a listen.

I really enjoyed this audiobook. Dan savage is a formidable pundit, hilarious realist and has an acerbic wit that comes through his reading of his own words.

Skipping All the Way

Taking on the "Moral Majority," who can't see a natural disaster, political tragedy, or fallen ice cream cone without tracing it back to gay marriage, Dan travels the country trying to exploit all seven deadly sins. It brings him back to the subject of happiness and the pursuit of it. Are we to give up the Bill of Rights because the finger waggers see sin at every juncture?

This is laugh-out-loud funny, while encouraging everyone, if no harm is being done, to mind their own beeswax.

"Skipping Towards Gomorrah" is a wickedly funny experiment. Part travelogue, part polemic, and part philosophy, Dan's a perfect partner in sin.

Awesome look at America from a diiferent view

Loved it. This book reminded me what a great country the US of America is & why what we have today is the best it's ever been. Travel across an ocean for a good couple of weeks or more & like anything else you won't miss it till it's gone. The only thing i disagree with Dan is guns. Hand guns are for more than just killing people. I keep a sidearm when i go hunting as well. I've had other fellow hunters have close calls from wild animals & a hand gun saved their lives. (side note: another reason i love this country is i can hunt my own food, not trust some greedy business to inject my meat with crap, process & package my food, by ways i dont know, in a pretty package at a store with a happy chicken or cow on it. Farmed animals for meat are not happy from the day they were born.) So i will keep and fight for my guns. Police can not always be relied on and excellent food is not bought in grocery stores. (Another side note: thank hunters for wild life preservation lands. The money we spend to hunt goes to wild life conservation. Keeping people out and letting nature be nature. Just read about the millions spent because of us on restoring land destroyed by people. We love animals more than most & most of us will only shoot at an animal if we know it will be a good clean ethical kill)