It's a Good Bad Movie: http://orwell.ru/library/reviews/books/english/e_books http://orwell.ru/library/reviews/books/english/e_books > A type of book which we

It's a Good Bad Movie: http://orwell.ru/library/reviews/books/english/e_books http://orwell.ru/library/reviews/books/english/e_books > A type of book which we hardly seem to produce in these days, but which flowered with great richness in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, is what Chesterton called the “good bad book”: that is, the kind of book that has no literary pretensions but which remains readable when more serious productions have perished. [snip] > In each of these books the author has been able to identify himself with his imagined characters, to feel with them and invite sympathy on their behalf, with a kind of abandonment that cleverer people would find it difficult to achieve.