To read, or not to read?

With the reading of The Plastic Age by Percy Marks being optional, I was faced with a dilemma - to read, or not to read? Deciding that my decision will depend on whether or not the book seems interesting, I turned to the back in order to read the blurb, only to find out that there is none. So I turned to other sources as well as skimming, and here is what I found:

-It tells the story of co-eds at a fictional college called Sanford.
-It is a fictional representation of current cultural trends.
-Includes content about hazing, partying, "petting" [flirting, foreplay], pranks, fraternities, and football games.
-It discusses the value of college and moral decency.
-The 1920's (when the book was written), were obsessed with youth on all levels.
-Marks was an instructor at Brown, and got fired after the book was published.

While skimming, the following excerpts caught my eye:

"Life was suddenly becoming very complicated, more complicated, it seemed, every day. With other undergraduates he discussed women and religion endlessly, but never reached any satisfactory conclusions" (Marks, 111).

"For once, he did not want to return to college ... The initiation of the freshmen amused him only slightly, and the football games did not seem so important as they had the two previous years" (Marks, 147).

"Hour after hour - on and on. Flushed faces, breaths hot with passion and whisky... Pretty girls, cool and sober, dancing with men who held them with drunken lasciviousness; sober men hating the whisky breaths of the girls... On and on, the drunken carnival to maddening music - the passion, the lust" (Marks, 165).

The Plastic Age sounds more interesting to me than This Side of Paradise, so I think I will read it after all.