Do you ever crave reading crappy books?
Well, define crappy first. 😉 This prompt was inspired by “Why I Love Crappy Books” over at Lit Drift, where the writer discusses The Da Vinci Code, Twilight, The Time Traveler’s Wife, and The Notebook as self-esteem boosting cautionary tales, guilty pleasures, and unintentionally hilarious.
Learning from bad books is why I always finish a book, unless it brutally offends me. I read Anna Godbersen for the guilty pleasure of it, because, as her work is all historical fiction, it’s a step up from Gossip Girl but with all the addicting overblown drama. And I find unintentional hilarity in nearly everything I read, so perhaps that’s just me being immature.
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You own it up, and most do not. And they are immature, not you!
Here is my BTT: Crappy post!
” And I find unintentional hilarity in nearly everything I read, so perhaps that’s just me being immature.”
I do that, but more w/movies that aren’t supposed to be funny than with books. i do wish I could do it with books tho. 😦 i think my expectations for books are really high, whereas for movies, not so much.
I don’t crave crappy books, but ocassionally I do crave fluffy stuff. fluffy stuff is Dan Brown, some of the James Patterson thriller action stuff, romance manga.
See, that’s the trouble with definitions like “crappy”; fluffy stuff is a better phrase.
And in this day and age of Wikipedia, if the crap gets too much to handle, we can at least surf over there and hopefully see how it all turns out. LOL
Ah, spoilers.
I don’t crave crappy books. Check out my answer for this week’s Booking Through Thursday.
Crappy or not, it is based on somebody’s preference in books. Everybody has their own opinions. Head over Clandestine Sanctuary to know what I think about this question.
Yeah, that’s the problem with using a term like “crappy”.
“And I find unintentional hilarity in nearly everything I read, so perhaps that’s just me being immature” — I do the same damn thing … I’ve been known to pick up “serious” books because I thought the synopsis sounded hilarious to me. 🙂
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Booking Through Thursday
Do ever crave reading crappy books?
Sometimes you just want to turn your mind off and be entertained. They’re like romantic comedy chick flicks.
Good answer!
I think crappy doesn’t always mean bad. bad book is one that is poorly written. Crappy can be cheesy. I think I’ll know a bad book when I read one, and might very well abort it for another (better) book. 🙂
No shame in that!
I watch crappy TV when I have a craving, and now and then I’ll read crappy books. But not over and over — or at least, if I DO find myself reading them over and over, then I find reasons to explain why in fact they are not crappy but indeed wonderful. :p
Heh, good answer.
I’m a fluff reader. I love to read the occasional bad romance novel for the humor and just so I can believe in twu luv and all that stuff (although there are a couple of good romance writers — Susan Elizabeth Phillips can be decent and Jennifer Crusie is even better).
“Bad,” though. . .technically badly written books I can’t abide.
I definitely love fluffy books – there are times when I need a literary palate cleanser, or when I’m stressed and my brain isn’t able to handle anything more serious, that a fluffy read (or re-read) is exactly what I need.
I wholeheartedly disagree of the lumping of Time Traveler’s Wife in with DaVinci Code and Twilight, though. Wildly popular does not necessarily equal fluffy, or crappy.
Definitely; I meant to mention something about that, but the post is what it is now, heh. 🙂