Stephen Bayley considers "good bad books." Good bad books are not the same as books ...

(Stephen Bayley considers "good bad books." Good bad books are not the same as books that are merely bad. Good bad is more subtle. A good bad book is one that achieves a surprisingly exhilarating ...) Stephen Bayley considers "good bad books." Good bad books are not the same as books that are merely bad. Good bad is more subtle. A good bad book is one that achieves a surprisingly exhilarating effect despite flaws of style and construction, which disqualify it as (what Updike calls) "literature." Significantly, good bad books translate very well into film, perhaps suggesting that cinema is an intellectually and artistically undemanding medium. "The Guns of Navarone," "The Graduate" and "Jaws," for example, were feeble literature but made magnificent movies.

09:28:00 March 3, 2006, Friday (PST) Source: Blog of a Bookslut

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