But that's besides the point.
The point of this post is Oreos. And Pringles.
If you're like me, then you like your share of junk food. Everyone has their vices. Ice cream. Oreos. Potato chips. You know yours.
Literature can be the same way. I have a phrase I like to use sometimes about books. "Junk Food Fiction."
Avid readers understand it perfectly.
Junk food fiction is that book that you know is bad for you, that book that you're wasting your brain cells on, but you pick it up anyway. It's okay. Everyone needs a little thinking-free fiction sometimes.
But it's like Oreos. One or two is fine. But if you lose control, soon the entire package is gone and your insides feel awful.
Too much junk food fiction, and your insides feel awful.
My vices?
I have two.
1. Twilight
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I'm ashamed to say I've read the entire series. But my curiosity got the best of me. I had to find out what everyone was making a big deal over.
But once I started? It was like a compulsion. I had to find out the ending.
And afterward? My insides felt awful.
2. The Sookie Stackhouse Books
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Heard of True Blood? It's based off of these books.
If reading Twilight is like eating too many Oreos, then these books are like that enormous burger covered in cheese and bacon and loaded with too many calories that was just too good to want to take back.
I'll confess I love these books for pool reads, because they take next to no brain cells to read.
I try to be ashamed for this one, but like that burger, I just can't.
Confession time, friends! What are some of your favorite junk food fiction reads?
What's hilarious is that we've read both of these - and I'm pretty sure I read them before you did. Sigh.
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty sure you did, too. But that's okay. Just remember, I have no right to judge. :)
DeleteDoes People magazine fall under this category? One could make the case that it's primarily fiction LOL
ReplyDeleteIf so, that's mine :-)
--Mom
Haha. YES. People Magazine counts. But there are far worse things to be reading.
DeleteMmmmm, Pringles... I've actually given up on the Sookie Stackhouse books, because they just keep getting more and more bonkers. Recently, my junk food books have been in the form of Pride and Prejudice spin offs. They require absolutely no brain ability whatsoever to read. And sometimes, that's exactly what you need!
ReplyDeletePlease tell me they're not the zombie ones. Those are an abomination unto literature.
DeleteI have read the zombie ones. But my recent forays have been more of the trashy fan fic "what would happen if Mr Bennet got sick while Lizzy was at Rosings and Darcy never proposed and then Mr Bennet died and the family was ruined??" sort.
DeleteThat kind of thing weirds me out, the whole treating a fictional story as if it were real and giving it an alternate reality thing.
DeleteI don't have any series that fall under that category but I do read a ton of one off YA books that just feel like biting into big zebra cakes (my junk food of choice.)
ReplyDeleteRecently I read a book called Sweet Evil that was like that. It's about angels and demons but fun and, well, you know. :)
Lor, someone at work was eating a zebra cake on their break and I INSTANTLY THOUGHT OF YOU! You and zebra cakes are eternally connected in my brain, I'd like you to know.
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