Which lowbrow books do you love?

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[twitter] I’ll start with one of mine, which is Valley of the Dolls. My 20-year-old copy is falling apart because I reread it about once a year.[/twitter]
Oh man I have read this so many times. Also loved the Jackie Collins books back in the day.

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jsmith123 wrote:Is the Cork O'Connor series low brow? I am loving William Kent Kreuger right now.

I dont think so. I love love this series.

I love this series, too! I don’t consider it lowbrow

My lowbrow book love is anything by Sophie Kinsella.

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Anything/everything by Stephen King

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Anonymous wrote:Omg. You are my people. I love Valley of the Dolls with a passion, and IRL I know only one other person who liked Swet Valley High. This is awesome!

Jessica or Elizabeth?

Lila Fowler.

Hahaha I can’t get over finding other SVH readers. This is a blast.

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Anonymous wrote:I will read anything and everything by Stephen King.

Me too. But I don’t think he really belongs in “low brow” (though I agree that a lot of book snobs with no familiarity would categorize him as such). I’m a voracious reader - regularly read everything including classics, contemporary ‘literary’ novels, mysteries/thrillers, westerns, sci-fi, non-fiction of all sorts, etc. etc. I’d say that King writes better than MANY contemporary writers who regularly get lauded in the literary press. I think there’s a bias and suspicion in that world against plot.

Stephen King has gone steadily upward in literary regard as he basically reinvented the horror story. And he’s just a great writer. Cribs a lot from Robert Louis Stevenson. Tho.

[Anonymous]

Jodi picoult

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What is lowbrow?

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Anonymous wrote:Sweet Valley High

Let’s be friends forever.

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Anonymous wrote:Omg. You are my people. I love Valley of the Dolls with a passion, and IRL I know only one other person who liked Swet Valley High. This is awesome!

Jessica or Elizabeth?

Lila Fowler.

Hahaha I can’t get over finding other SVH readers. This is a blast.

You SVH fans better be listening to the Double Love podcast.

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Anonymous wrote:Omg. You are my people. I love Valley of the Dolls with a passion, and IRL I know only one other person who liked Swet Valley High. This is awesome!

Jessica or Elizabeth?

Lila Fowler.

Hahaha I can’t get over finding other SVH readers. This is a blast.

You SVH fans better be listening to the Double Love podcast.

NP, and seeing all the SVH talk made me wonder what happened to Elizabeth and Jessica when they grew up!? You know, as they are real people and all. Have all of you read Sweet Valley Confidential? I had no idea it existed until I popped my question into Google.

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Anonymous wrote:Omg. You are my people. I love Valley of the Dolls with a passion, and IRL I know only one other person who liked Swet Valley High. This is awesome!

Jessica or Elizabeth?

Lila Fowler.

Hahaha I can’t get over finding other SVH readers. This is a blast.

You SVH fans better be listening to the Double Love podcast.

NP, and seeing all the SVH talk made me wonder what happened to Elizabeth and Jessica when they grew up!? You know, as they are real people and all. Have all of you read Sweet Valley Confidential? I had no idea it existed until I popped my question into Google.

And thank you for the podcast rec! They had me at “are you a prefect size 6? Neither are we. Join us!”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is lowbrow?

People may have different opinions, but I think of it as books that aren’t considered “literature” and more likely to be viewed as genre books - romance, sci-fi, horror, fantasy, westerns, mysteries, thrillers, etc. Of course there are lots of gray areas and overlap. Also, if something stays popular long enough, it eventually gets redesignated as a classic, which by definition is “highbrow” regardless of literary merit (Beowulf? Canterbury Tales?).

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Most low brow I read is Anthony Horowitz. Genius, hilarious.

I love him! So engrossing!

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Anonymous wrote:Omg. You are my people. I love Valley of the Dolls with a passion, and IRL I know only one other person who liked Swet Valley High. This is awesome!

Jessica or Elizabeth?

Lila Fowler.

Hahaha I can’t get over finding other SVH readers. This is a blast.

You SVH fans better be listening to the Double Love podcast.

NP, and seeing all the SVH talk made me wonder what happened to Elizabeth and Jessica when they grew up!? You know, as they are real people and all. Have all of you read Sweet Valley Confidential? I had no idea it existed until I popped my question into Google.

Lol this kills me. There was also a TV series! You can find it on YouTube. I watched an episode. The acting is very bad.

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Anonymous wrote:What is lowbrow?

People may have different opinions, but I think of it as books that aren’t considered “literature” and more likely to be viewed as genre books - romance, sci-fi, horror, fantasy, westerns, mysteries, thrillers, etc. Of course there are lots of gray areas and overlap. Also, if something stays popular long enough, it eventually gets redesignated as a classic, which by definition is “highbrow” regardless of literary merit (Beowulf? Canterbury Tales?).

But what does it mean? Does it mean, not intelligent? What does that have to do with low brow? Is that eyebrows? Does it mean it’s like, what, are we talking Neanderthal? Does it mean unintelligent? I’m really trying to understand. Why would reading be considered unintelligent?