Thread: How about some guilty pleasures?
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Old 12-11-2010, 09:29 AM   #33
WT Sharpe
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Originally Posted by Belfaborac View Post
This really is a very strange thread. So far I've yet to see any book mentioned which I'd be at all embarrassed to admit to having read. Apart from Twilight that is, which I wouldn't read unless threatened with a severe beating by a vicious mob of rabid Samoan wrestlers. On PCP.

I guess the most potentially embarrassing books I've read were a number of so-called "sexy westerns" (does such a "genre" still exist, I wonder...). Very badly written and not even terribly sexy. That was probably some 28-30 years ago though and I really don't think they can be held against me today. Apart from those I've not read anything I wouldn't be perfectly happy to bring up in even the most high-brow and snobbish literary circle, including such non-PC jewels as Honoré Gabriel Riqueti's (Comte de Mirabeau) "The Lifted Curtain or Laura's Education", or "Justine, or the Misfortunes of Virtue" by Donatien Alphonse François (Marquis ).

If it's well written, it's worth reading.
I read Justine years ago after purchasing it at thrift shop. De Sade was a twisted individual, but a talented writer. What I found most interesting about Justine's chance encounters with rapists and sadists was how each of these villains felt obligated to justify the dastardly deeds they perpetrated upon her with long-winded speeches about how it was morally right and part of the natural order of things that the desires of the stronger should prevail.

I'm tempted to make a political joke here, but then the thread would have to be moved!
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