Trendy non-fiction books of times gone by

[Frumpiness]

In the 90s and 2000s I read a few books that were popular at the time.

Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus

Why Men Don’t Listen and Women Can’t Read Maps

Several others of that type

If I read them again now I would probably find them ridiculous. Is there anyone here who’s reread them years later to see how they feel about them now?

When I was at university in the early 1980s, every student flat had at least one copy of The Joy of Sex, Manwatching, and Diet for a Small Planet. The Female Eunuch and Our Bodies, Ourselves were also fairly commonplace, and Christian students were fond of Flirting with the World and Strengthening Your Grip (the last of these, I seem to recall, proposed giving the man a room of his own as the solution to domestic violence).

My mum was into what we then called "slimming", and we had the original Dr Atkins Diet Revolution and The F-Plan Diet at home.

In the 1980s every mother seemed to have E for Additives on their bookshelf.
My mum had a copy, but it didn't stop our staple diet being Birdseye freezer food!

I’ve never read those but they all sound terrible.

Bravo Two Zero
The Naked Ape
The Feminine Mystique

Not rubbish though

No Logo by Naomi Klein for anyone vaguely left or alternative

Holy Blood, Holy Grail - the original conspiracy theory tome

Nancy Fridays book about womens sexual fantasies - Women on Top.

There was an era of those misery literature books in the 90s too. Dave Pelzer wrote "A child called it" and there seemed to follow a whole host of similar books.