Book Suggestion – Encyclopedia of Guilty Pleasures

What do ABBA, The Franklin Mint, Gilligan’s Island, Spam, Wayne Newton, White Castle hamburgers, and the song “You Light Up My Life” have in common? Surprisingly, not one but two things. The first. and most obvious, is the fact that discussing them in public inevitably triggers condescending smiles and derisive giggles. The second is that, in spite of those smiles and giggles, all are (or were) wildly popular.

Of course, these diverse phenomena (and hundreds of others) aren’t big with everyone. If they were, they wouldn’t merit mention in a book called The Encyclopedia of Guilty Pleasures. What sorts of foods/people/cultural icons are worthy of mention in these pages? Put simply, anything that causes shame – things people relish in private, but in most cases wouldn’t be caught dead eating. visiting, viewing, listening to, touching, or rubbing all over their bodies in public.

You can read the whole book on Google books HERE or buy it HERE