Comments on: Guilty Pleasures http://www.dystel.com/blog/2009/11/guilty-pleasures/ Mon, 26 Jun 2017 15:15:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.15 By: Christine http://www.dystel.com/blog/2009/11/guilty-pleasures/comment-page-1/#comment-15474 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:40:36 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2009/11/guilty-pleasures/#comment-15474 Right there with you on Twilight! In some ways I'm lucky in that most of my friends are avid readers, but out of our whole group, there are only 3 of us who liked/loved the Twilight books and the rest just kind of raise their eyebrows and shake their heads. I was rereading New Moon before going to see the movie (tonight! =) and I brought it to the doctor's office last week. I don't know why I felt like I had to hide the cover as I read, but I did. One of my friends who's going with me to see the movie said she did the same thing when reading on her lunch break.
Another little Twilight story – I was reading a different fantasy novel while in the checkout line at the grocery store (one of Jim Hines's princess books) and the check out woman asked me about Twilight and what I'd thought about it. It felt like she'd just asked what political party I identified with! If you say loved it, you're now on x side of the line. If you say you hated it/don't understand the hype/have no interest in it, you're on y side. I was on x, she was on y (a very strong "hated it" part of y), and like most political situations, we talked about it until we found we were at an impass, wished each other well, and she went about bagging and I went back to reading.

Oh! And I have to say that I love that you guys are blogging more frequently now!

]]> By: Amalia T. http://www.dystel.com/blog/2009/11/guilty-pleasures/comment-page-1/#comment-15464 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:26:46 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2009/11/guilty-pleasures/#comment-15464 I also love comic books– but I feel much less guilty about them than I do other things.

]]> By: Elizabeth Lynd http://www.dystel.com/blog/2009/11/guilty-pleasures/comment-page-1/#comment-15449 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:14:16 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2009/11/guilty-pleasures/#comment-15449 There's a book I've read two or three times called A Knight in Shining Armor, and my best friend and I have passed it between us a few times. The title makes it sound like a cheese-fest, and there is certainly some cleavage on the cover, but you know what? It inspires that same longing the scene in While You Were Sleeping, the moment Sandra Bullock realizes she's no one's type, not Peter Gallagher's, and certainly not his brother Bill Pullman's (though she is! she is!), the heart in the throat rooting for the heroine–so the book does its job. And isn't that a prime reason we read? To feel something beyond our own day? Cleavage or not, it does its job.

]]> By: Malanie Wolfe http://www.dystel.com/blog/2009/11/guilty-pleasures/comment-page-1/#comment-15447 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:09:56 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2009/11/guilty-pleasures/#comment-15447 I am so over being embarrassed of my guilty pleasure (Twilight) that I am proudly wearing a Team Edward T-shirt to see New Moon this weekend. Did I mention I am a 38 year old mother of four?

]]> By: Amber Tidd Murphy http://www.dystel.com/blog/2009/11/guilty-pleasures/comment-page-1/#comment-15446 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:30:49 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2009/11/guilty-pleasures/#comment-15446 Sophie Kinsella is my guilty pleasure. (Well, until I saw the Shopaholic movie. I'm kind of over it now.)

The books were so GOOD. The movie did not do them justice, but that is so often the truth.

]]> By: DGLM http://www.dystel.com/blog/2009/11/guilty-pleasures/comment-page-1/#comment-15444 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:56:12 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2009/11/guilty-pleasures/#comment-15444 Yeah, it does seem that most of us are embarrassed to be seen reading romance novels, but Dara's comment made me remember that I also love comic books and not always the cool, ironic superhero ones. Yes, I'm thinking Archie comics…

]]> By: Donna Gambale http://www.dystel.com/blog/2009/11/guilty-pleasures/comment-page-1/#comment-15442 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:26:37 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2009/11/guilty-pleasures/#comment-15442 I proofread on the side, and one time I was proofreading a very explicit scene in a romance novel while on the train — these were huge 11 x 17 pages, so not subtle at all. I just prayed that the person next to me didn't peek over my shoulder to see what I was marking with my red pencil.

]]> By: kanishk http://www.dystel.com/blog/2009/11/guilty-pleasures/comment-page-1/#comment-15441 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:29:11 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2009/11/guilty-pleasures/#comment-15441 I just can't stop myself from reading them even though I know it will never compare to the Original Trilogy movies…

Work From Home India

]]> By: Dara http://www.dystel.com/blog/2009/11/guilty-pleasures/comment-page-1/#comment-15440 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:57:34 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2009/11/guilty-pleasures/#comment-15440 I'd say a good number of the romance novels out there…the stories are intriguing but why there has to be half naked people on the cover…well, that's what tends to make me shy away from reading them in public.

Another guilty pleasure of mine–reading manga 😛 Especially the girlie shojo kind that's definitely aimed at younger teens. Oh well–I love it!

]]> By: Matt Heppe http://www.dystel.com/blog/2009/11/guilty-pleasures/comment-page-1/#comment-15439 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:51:44 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2009/11/guilty-pleasures/#comment-15439 Ann Lawrence (http://www.annlawrence.com) is one of my critique partners. She's a wonderful writer, but I had to rip the cover off of one of her novels before I could read it. Just couldn't read a novel with a buff half-nekkid dude on the front cover.

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