Bad books have an important place in our lives, because they keep the brain active. We spend so much time wondering what incredibly dumb thing the author will say a few pages down the road. One caveat: As with bad movies, a book that is merely bad but not exquisitely bad is a waste of time, while a genuinely terrible book is a sheer delight.[...]

Bad books fall into three broad categories: the stupid, the meta-stupid and the immoral. Each has its own inimitable charms. Stupid books range from anything with the word “rapture” in the title to investment guides linking the yield curve with the teachings of Nostradamus. Meta-stupid books try to explain how to hold better meetings or motivate slackers by imitating the doomed but well-organized Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton. Immoral books include titles like O. J. Simpson's “I Want to Tell You

Juste un détail : contrairement à l'auteur de cet article, je ne pense pas que le Da Vinci Code soit un nanarlivre, mais un vrai mauvais mauvais bouquin.

Ecrit par Heileen, à 17:55 dans la rubrique "Laissez-moi me marrer".

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