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The Encyclopedia of Guilty Pleasures: 1,001 Things You Hate to Love
The Encyclopedia of Guilty Pleasures 1001 Things You Hate to Love
Author: Sam Stall, Lou Harry, Julia Spalding
What do Neil Diamond, Touched by an Angel, Pamela Anderson, The Boy in the Plastic Bubble, White Castle hamburgers, Benny Hill, Thomas Kinkade, and the song 'You Light Up My Life' have in common? They're all guilty pleasures -- and they're all celebrated in this massive A-to-Z encyclopedia. — Authors Sam Stall, Lou Harry, and Juli...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781931686549
ISBN-10: 1931686548
Publication Date: 9/1/2004
Pages: 320
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3.9 stars, based on 8 ratings
Publisher: Quirk Books
Book Type: Paperback
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hoopridge avatar reviewed The Encyclopedia of Guilty Pleasures: 1,001 Things You Hate to Love on + 252 more book reviews
Pam Anderson, The Incredible Hulk, The Brady Bunch, H.R. Puffenstuff, Farrah Fawcett...what do these all have in common? We're embarrassed to admit we like them, but we like them, or at least have a morbid curiosity about them. This is a listing of all of our guilty pleasures, be it food, celebrity, or pop culture. I admit that I nodded in chagrined agreement about some of them ("Seen on T.V. Products," for example, 'cause I really want one of those GT Express 101 cooker thingies), and others I thought, "Geez louise, WHO likes that crap?" ("Hustler" magazine...ewww.)

Since it's in encyclopedia form, it's easy to pick this up and put it down. It's a good bathroom read. Hey, that's a new guilty pleasure: reading on the potty!

I'll admit that I looked through the book to see if any of my guilty pleasures were in there ("Full House" reruns, Twinkies, Hallmark channel movies, etc.). Some were, which made me happy, and some weren't, which made me say, "Oh, man, I'm worse than I thought if my guilty pleasure is just LAME and not a guilty pleasure at all."
reviewed The Encyclopedia of Guilty Pleasures: 1,001 Things You Hate to Love on + 10 more book reviews
Enjoyable, brings back some things I had forgotten about.
FamFatale avatar reviewed The Encyclopedia of Guilty Pleasures: 1,001 Things You Hate to Love on + 369 more book reviews
Great reading in bits and pieces.


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