i thought american psycho was entertaining, it has no dept and is garbage with no real value
i thought american psycho was entertaining, it has no dept and is garbage with no real value
My guilty pleasure is celebrity autobiographies, about which I feel thoroughly guilty and thoroughly pleased. Is anybody else willing to admit reading these? My favorites are the ones by:
Shelley Winters (my all-time favorite)
David Niven
Kirk Douglas
Michael Caine
John Phillips
Julia Phillips
Cybill Shepherd
Nancy Reagan
Joan Fontaine
Tallulah Bankhead
The Duchess of Windsor
Ingrid Bergman
Gelsey Kirkland
Mary Martin
Christopher Isherwood
Gore Vidal
Tennessee Williams
And honorable mention to the book about Marlene Dietrich written by her daughter...
I agree, they're great. They're also the only books that my sister and I have in common, alas...Originally Posted by Trillian
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 probably have alot of guilty pleasures but i read for pleasure so i generally dont feel guilty about them... trash like the Da Vinci Code and other such junk.
My biggest though would have to be children's books. I dont see them as trash because they are written really well for children, but obviously they have loopholes little character development and always predictably happy endings. nonetheless i read and reread them, Emily Rodda and Enid Blyton are favourites particularly the Deltora Quest series, which I've read probably 5+ times since i first read it back when i was 9 or 10
My biggest guilty pleasure in reading are historical novels. Though I do not allow myself to devour too many, I still read more of them than I probably should.
Tuesdays With Morrie.
Despite the snow,
Despite the falling snow.
I heard good things about this book. Not so?
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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I read 'The Five People You Meet in Heaven' by M. Albom and think that it is quite good. Sometimes too emotional perhaps but otherwise readable. Nice plot.
For me, it's cheap fantasy. I guess I could say that I ironically like the genre, in the same way that that I ironically like Plan 9 From Outer Space and other old, cheap horror movies. For example, I like the Dragonlance novels. I know that they're not exactly classics, but they're fun to read.
it's been a tough fight worth fighting
as we all drive along
betting on another day. - Charles Bukowski
I am secretly in love with Jack Reacher.
Why would anyone feel guilty about something they enjoy? That is the most ignorant concept I can think of.
Because it makes it more fun! Didn't you ever get a kick out of doing something you knew you weren't supposed to do?
yea mr 'jazz hands'
That's still pretty much the most stupid think I've ever heard. If you like something why should you feel bad for it? What, just because other people say it's bad? Stop being childish.
I think what the original poster had in mind was the idea that we all have some kind of internal scale of values against which we measure our behaviour. In moral terms, you might call it 'conscience' but in literary terms you could think of it as your acquired critical values. We all have some idea of what we would term as a 'good book', more or less stringent according to our level of experience in reading critically. Sometimes we read books that rate pretty low against our internal scale, what as thinking readers we recognise as an indifferent, if not bad, book, shallow, poorly written, lacking in dimension. Yet we enjoy it. Why? Well, I think we all deserve some playtime. I can't live in the rarified atmosphere of Great Literature all the time: I could at one time - while I was studying I counted as lost any time spent reading anything that did not further my scholarly endeavours and I think there are many contributors to this Forum who feel this way. So when they read something for no other purpose than pleasure, something slight, frivolous, amusing, they feel they have wasted time that would be better spent on a book that would have furthered them in their aims. It isn't so much the book that makes them feel guilty as the perceived waste of time. However I feel it does no one any harm to have some time off from time to time, to come down from the heights and breathe the air that ordinary mortals get by on. And poor books serve their purpose - they show how good the Greats really are and help you appreciate them more when you go back to them. I realise lots of people who post here are in the middle of study and can't afford to waste any time. I suppose I am lucky in that I have reached the stage in life whan I can please myself entirely - if I want to re-read Wuthering Heights I can, if I want to read a thriller, I can do that too, I only have myself to please. It doesn't mean I have abandoned my critical faculties- I have been known to hurl books across the room with an 'Oh, for goodness sake!' - but I no longer feel I am wasting precious time.
Last edited by kasie; 05-31-2008 at 06:04 AM.
If that's the stupidest thing you've ever heard, you've led a pretty sheltered life. You need to get out more...
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