excuse me?!Originally Posted by mayneverhave
I don't mean to intrude, but did you just call Linkin Park garbage?
excuse me?!
I don't mean to intrude, but did you just call Linkin Park garbage?
Shall these bones live?
Hah, i mean c'mon. I admit i've tapped my foot to a few linkin park songs, but you can't really take them seriously. Maybe garbage was a strong word, but...
then again, don't get me started on evanescence
I personally think it was an understatement.
No guilty pleasures here, I'm innocent as a lamb in this matter, in fact I define good taste
I'll admit finding those dancing bananas pretty exciting though
uhhh...I don't count my infatuation with the King novels a "guilty pleasure"; they have lots of philosophical references and whatnot...
i'm ashamed
Oh boy... where to start... well... manga, for one. Any manga. Then there's Tamora Pierce's Song of the Lioness. Those are my comfort books. >.> <.< >.< <.> I get them out when I'm depressed and want to hear about the heroine who made her dreams come true. But I didn't tell you this! Shhh.
I can't bear to mention any others right now. Maybe later... *slinks sheepishly away*
Yes, garbage is too strong a word to use for their songs.
I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew.
yes, it was a bit harsh.
I'll just ease silently out of this thread, since I don't want to argue, even though those are two of my favorite bands.
Shall these bones live?
I have to see I did enjoy the Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons. It's pop literature basically, it has no literary value but it's something to read during your spare time. Much like, say, Chingy has no musical value but is fun to dance to if you've had a few drinks.
"In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine."
- Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Guilty? Yes. Pleasurable? You bet. Reading? Er, not exactly...
Plainview: Drainage! Drainage, Eli! Drained dry, you boy! If you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake and I have a straw and my straw reaches across the room and starts to drink your milkshake. I drink your milkshake! I drink it up!
Same here, I love the King.uhhh...I don't count my infatuation with the King novels a "guilty pleasure"; they have lots of philosophical references and whatnot...
i'm ashamed
Most scholarly individuals who study english would think so, but he's deeper then I'd give alot of the other supermarker paperbacks credit for. Other then him its actually the young adult/teen section I like to raid. When we'd go to the bookstore, its set up like Fiction, Sci-fi, Young Adult. I start at fiction, he's in sci-fi, and then if I can successfully creep by him and make it to the YA section, I win, and get to pick a few from there.
If I'm caught I just act like I didn't know my section ended. Priceless.
"Get thee to a nunnery."
Star Wars. I have at least seven star wars novels staring me down on my bookshelf. Honestly, I don't even think they're that great. I only read them because I've been an avid Star Wars fan for most of my life.
"For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories." - Plato
"Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus: one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him."- Friedrich Nietzsche
Okay, nobody tell, but...*whispers* Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum books. I am so hooked, they actually make me laugh out loud, they are so funny! I was mortified to find out that Ms. Evanovich is a romance writer. I didn't know until the 3rd book.
I love Clive Cussler and Matthew Reilly novels. Most people seem to think of them as books for the boys but I love them.
I also include Harry Potter on that list but seeing there will be no more of them I guess I will have to live with only seven.
I've noticed that the majority of this forum concerns itself with authors like Dostoevsky and Proust, so I feel like a pariah around here. While everyone else extols the virtues of Iliad, I hide in my closet and read Bad Magic.
So I'm wondering:
Do you read any books that most people frown upon? Which titles do you defend against the cruel decrees of high-brow critics (and your friends)? I want to hear about the less-than-tasteful books you secretely admire.
The Satanic Bible by Anton LaVey. I keep it turned facing inward on my bookshelf in fact. I just like the bold faced cheek of him extolling the virtues of sin, mocking the hypocracy of religions but having said that, The Church of Satan is more than happy to take money off you if you want to join THEIR club. I originally bought it as a secret santa gift for someone at work, but....well I have it now!
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