It's funny you mentioned Twilight. That's what initially prompted this post. I've read Twilight and New Moon. I liked them both, and read them very quickly because they are very addicting and easy reads. However, they weren't the be-all-end-all of my literature experience. They were good reads, but not OMG-my-favorites. Someone I spoke to on a community on LJ said that she thought the Twilight books were complete trash and extremely badly written, but she still read them just for the sake of making fun of them with her friends. Huh? What? That's a 500 page monster of a book and you're reading it for the lolz? For serious? I'd never spend that much time on a book I thought was trash. I think most of those people who bash Twilight are ones who consider it a guilty pleasure of theirs. They feel like they aren't supposed to like it, but they do. I don't have any guilty pleasures. I like what I like, and I don't feel any guilt about it whatsoever. I have two NSync albums, for goodness sake! And I listened to one of them last week. Eat that guilty pleasures! :-)