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07 May 2007

Why Not the Worst? Joe Queenan writes, in the NYT Book Review, about the pleasures of bad books.

post by: box at: 10:15 | 4 comments

I don't see why bad books shouldn't exist, but even when I'm enjoying something awful, I can't take more that three hours of it at the most before it ceases to be amusing. With a bad book you're in for 10-15 hours or more of badness, maybe.

posted by Prospero 07 May | 14:24

Well that's one way to get people to read Balsamic Dreams.

posted by Lentrohamsanin 07 May | 16:04

To say nothing of that piece of crap love letter to Anglophilia.

posted by box 07 May | 16:06

He mentioned the volume "Loins of Telemachus"; I couldn't find it on Amazon, tho. Too bad — I've often wondered how the ancient Greeks did their barbecuin'....

posted by rob511 07 May | 19:40

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