Sign in with Facebook
Loading...
The Encyclopedia of Guilty Pleasures
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 Julia Spalding have unearthed fascinating trivia ab...more
Authors Sam Stall, Lou Harry, and Julia Spalding have unearthed fascinating trivia ab...more
Paperback, 320 pages
Published
September 1st 2004
by Quirk Books
(first published 2004)
Friend Reviews
To see what your friends thought of this book,
please sign up.
This book is not yet featured on Listopia.
Add this book to your favorite list »
Community Reviews
(showing
1-30
of
85)
Some of my Loves the book mentions (though I don't think I feel guilty about them!): Murder She Wrote, Nachos, and Peeps. It was a good easy light read after some of the more depressing, heavy stuff I've read lately.
view 1 comment
The title of this book intrigued me, and reading it was highly entertaining. It was organized in such a way that you could skip around and just read the entries on what interested you. The writing is popular magazine-esque, but very witty, and evoked more than a couple of chuckles. Some of the entries are slightly PG-13, and I think this book was aimed more at the 30-something crowd, because a lot of the entries I had never even heard of, but I guarantee that there's at least one entry that will...more
Contains the most incisive, on-the-mark summation of "The Brady Bunch" I've ever read.
This was a great reference book when we were studying for the World Series of Pop Culture!
What can I say.....FUN...just plain old fun to read and think about!
May 13, 2013
Jillian Wilkinson
added it
Feb 13, 2013
Wim
marked it as to-read
Feb 09, 2013
Rowan Fletcher
added it
Jan 20, 2013
Bob Simmons
added it
Dec 04, 2012
Charlotte Tito
marked it as to-read
Nov 03, 2012
Joan Stoltman
marked it as to-read
Oct 30, 2012
Andrea Dobson
added it
Aug 05, 2012
Katie
added it
Jul 21, 2012
Mylynka
added it
Jun 07, 2012
Erin
is currently reading it
Jun 01, 2012
Mark
added it
Apr 09, 2012
Jennifer
marked it as to-read
Mar 11, 2012
Alexandra
marked it as to-read
Feb 27, 2012
Meagan
marked it as to-read
There are no discussion topics on this book yet.
Be the first to start one »
