The most enjoyable book in the world is the phone book, because think of all the sex that went into creating the content. 


Kintz’s joke hinges on a comic redefinition of what makes a book “enjoyable.” Instead of valuing plot, style, or ideas, the speaker values the phone book as an accidental record of human reproduction: every listed person implies parents, and therefore sex. The humor comes from collapsing a mundane, utilitarian text into a bawdy origin story, and from treating an impersonal directory as if it were erotically “authored” by countless private acts. It also satirizes our tendency to project narratives onto data—finding meaning (or titillation) where none was intended—while poking fun at the very concept of literary pleasure.