Did reading the Gossip Girl books make anyone else feel as if ...?

Not really. I felt more along the lines of "twelve packets of Oreos, chased down by some processed cheese crackers"

Literary junk food that tantalizes you anyways - how can the bad be so attractive? And yet you have too much, and it makes you sick.

What are your reading nowadays?

Luthien

I have a theory, but I'm rather tired of the -10 point violations.

Gossip Girl is comprised of several "qualities" that many women consciously or unconsciously manifest. Of course, in a Freudian sense, you'd read them (and secretly like them--why else would you compare the series to Skittles and alcohol?). The word "gossip" is like a female pheromone.

Haha... I didn't like the books. And by books, I mean i read the first book, wondered why I had and then went online and sent my brother a long email about why the book wasn't as good as the TV show.

I'm a huge GG the tv show fan... Chuck Bass (who I prefer to call CBass [pronounced Sea Bass]) is just seven kinds of lame which somehow makes him one of my favourite TV characters.

The book was longwinded and the characters all sounded so much more... tryhard than I felt they were in the show. Like zomg... we're rich so we drink and our parents don't care...

poor people... my dad wouldn't let me drink even when I was older than the legal drinking age....

I know why you read them... It's casue there was no way you could convince your older brother to read them unless you'd read them yourself. ITs' the same reason why you read a Dr Phil book, and the Twilight series...

No wait... I'm confusing you with me...

Nicely put.

I'm not a big fan of the Gossip Girl series. It's too "OMG!!!1 I love him, but he, like luvs my BFFL! This is, like, soooo bad!" I wasn't particularly fond of any of the characters, and I couldn't care less about their social life. Call me shallow.

But when I read them, I felt as if I'd just eaten a giant chocolate chip cookie with frosting, and then washed it down with a chocolate smoothie with a mountain of whipped cream. And then added a handful of M&Ms (only the green ones, though.)

BQ: You were walking along the street, minding your own business, when suddenly a book falls from the sky. You look at the cover and see it's called Gossip Girl. On the cover is a sticky-note that says "Read this. For me." You don't know who sent it, but you feel as if you *must* read it. It's as if it's your life's purpose.

Hm... could happen?

I'm too scared to read that series. I mean, I only have so many brain cells and I do value their existence...

BQ: This is torture. You have been captured by a babbling bumbling band of baboons and they're making you read it and you have to, otherwise they'll ruin all of the banana nut bread in the world and you have to think of the bread!

I've never read the books, but even the title of the series makes me feel slightly nauseous. For excuses you could try:

- You lost a bet

- You were sick and bored out of your mind and your sister/brother/mom/dad/aunt/cousin/neighbor/gerbil brought them to you thinking you'd like them, and you only read them because there was nothing else

- You were abducted by a bunch of sadists who forced you to read them as a form of torture

- You were hit by an eighteen wheeler. While in the hospital and not in your right mind, you read them

ha ha ha I hope this kid appreciated your efforts! ha ha ha

I was thinking the same thing when I finished the Lost Symbol! Good grief....... I love Dan Brown but I think we're done with demons, angels, symbols, codes.... It's making my head hurt!!!!! Make it go away!!!!!!

Good to see you back from your temporary absence!

I haven't read them, but maybe you could say you fell under an evil spell ?