• Ep. 7: Guilty Pleasures: Should We Feel Shame About What We Love?

  • By: The Audible Editors
  • Length: 36 mins
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (29 ratings)

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Hear the Audible editors on what they view, or don't view, as their guilty pleasure books. Including romance, mysteries & thrillers, and celebrity memoirs. Plus an exclusive clip from Emily's conversation with the supremely talented David Sedaris.

The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer

The Pisces by Melissa Broder

There There by Tommy Orange

The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer

Mine Till Midnight by Lisa Kleypas

Love in the Afternoon by Lisa Kleypas

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough

The Girl Before by J. P. Delaney

Believe Me by J. P. Delaney

Cotillion by Georgette Heyer

An Offer from a Gentleman by Julia Quinn

Born a Crime by Trevor Noah

Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) by Mindy Kaling

Bossypants by Tina Fey

Not My Father's Son by Alan Cumming

The Girl With the Lower Back Tattoo by Amy Schumer

Calypso by David Sedaris

Ruby Red by Kerstin Gier

War Storm by Victoria Aveyard

A Torch Against the Night by Sabaa Tahir

Beautiful Beginning by Christina Lauren

Give Me Your Hand by Megan Abbott

Tin Man by Sarah Winman

Butterfly's Shadow by Lee Langley

Thirsty by Mia Hopkins

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins 

Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn 

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The primary topic of discussion by Audible editors in this session is guilty pleasures. I'm a 75 year old married man with three adult children and six grandchildren. My fiction genre of choice is mysteries and thrillers especially the subgenres of espionage, police procedural, modern detective, and legal thrillers and my non-fiction genre of choice are politics/political philosophy, science,and historical biographies. My guilty pleasures are children's books especially anything by Roald Dahl and Maryrose Wood, YA/teen fiction from a wide range of authors, and humorous/fun fiction such as Colleen Helme's Shelby Nichols series and Jana DeLeon's Miss Fortune series.

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I always enjoy hearing about different people's guilty pleasures because everyone's are so very different. This was a fun listen.

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...and one step back. After a decent run of ever-improving content and performance, that is how I would describe this episode.

There is far too little time spent discussing the subject of the program. There are a few admirable attempts to bring things back to the topic at hand (it seems the hosts themselves recognize the issue), though these result in marginal success at best.

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There is a distinct lack of focus and cohesiveness on the part of the hosts, leading to (at times) a meandering, directionless feel. While the content is always informative, in the case of this episode much of it feels poorly placed (in another episode, perhaps?). A developing sense of pacing and the timing of appropriate impromptu moments, developing nicely over the last 5 episodes, regresses a bit here.

The hosts remain their charming, expert selves. The blend of personalities and backgrounds certainly works in a 'sum is greater than its parts' kind of way.

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