POW! Showbiz
  • POW! Recommends
  • Celebrity
  • Entertainment
  • Beauty
  • Culture
  • Fashion
  • Living
    • All
    • Health
    • Travel
    Stacey Solomon unveils 'stunning' autumn door display including tribute to daughter

    Stacey Solomon unveils 'stunning' autumn door display including tribute to daughter

    Double mastectomy woman creates pretty and feminine 'flat' bra range

    Double mastectomy woman creates pretty and feminine ‘flat’ bra range

    Woman sues Disney claiming injuries from ‘painful wedgie’ at Typhoon Lagoon waterpark

    Woman sues Disney claiming injuries from ‘painful wedgie’ at Typhoon Lagoon waterpark

    PROFESSOR ROB GALLOWAY: I've been frustrated by the number of patients labelled with long covid, often without any convincing reason beyond a collection of ongoing symptoms

    PROFESSOR ROB GALLOWAY: Yes, long Covid DOES exist, but too many people have wrongly been told they have it

    Daily cup of tea helps cut chance of diabetes

    Daily cup of tea helps cut chance of diabetes

    Seven in ten school leavers think going into 'green' jobs can help tackle climate change

    Seven in ten school leavers think going into 'green' jobs can help tackle climate change

    Trending Tags

    • Music
Contact Us
No Result
View All Result
  • POW! Recommends
  • Celebrity
  • Entertainment
  • Beauty
  • Culture
  • Fashion
  • Living
    • All
    • Health
    • Travel
    Stacey Solomon unveils 'stunning' autumn door display including tribute to daughter

    Stacey Solomon unveils 'stunning' autumn door display including tribute to daughter

    Double mastectomy woman creates pretty and feminine 'flat' bra range

    Double mastectomy woman creates pretty and feminine ‘flat’ bra range

    Woman sues Disney claiming injuries from ‘painful wedgie’ at Typhoon Lagoon waterpark

    Woman sues Disney claiming injuries from ‘painful wedgie’ at Typhoon Lagoon waterpark

    PROFESSOR ROB GALLOWAY: I've been frustrated by the number of patients labelled with long covid, often without any convincing reason beyond a collection of ongoing symptoms

    PROFESSOR ROB GALLOWAY: Yes, long Covid DOES exist, but too many people have wrongly been told they have it

    Daily cup of tea helps cut chance of diabetes

    Daily cup of tea helps cut chance of diabetes

    Seven in ten school leavers think going into 'green' jobs can help tackle climate change

    Seven in ten school leavers think going into 'green' jobs can help tackle climate change

    Trending Tags

    • Music
No Result
View All Result
POW! Showbiz
No Result
View All Result

The cult books that lost their cool

by POW! Showbiz
July 17, 2020
2 min read
0
The cult books that lost their cool
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

RELATED STORIES

GQ

23 Best Polo Shirts for Men in 2023: Lacoste, Ralph Lauren, Todd Snyder, and More

October 3, 2023
Candlewick bedspreads and corner shops...the eternal genius of Victoria Wood | Celebrity News | Showbiz & TV

Candlewick bedspreads and corner shops…the eternal genius of Victoria Wood | Celebrity News | Showbiz & TV

October 2, 2023

The Rules by Ellen Fein and Sherrie Schneider, 1995

Men have The Game; women have The Rules, a manipulative, oddly heartless bestseller whose slavish followers (they’re said to include Blake Lively) were gluttons for dictums like don’t talk, don’t have curly hair, don’t even think of returning that call. Never mind the feminist critiques – its opinion of men is so low you’re left wondering why any of us would want to land such a catch in the first place. In 2013, the book was updated for the era of internet dating and sexting, but it still seems positively Victorian in the context of a cultural marker like Lena Dunham’s Girls.

Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach, 1970

So, yes, Jonathan Livingston Seagull really is a seagull, but he’s a seagull with aspirations, a non-conformist who yearns to soar above the flock and up into the heavens, just as the book itself conquered the bestseller charts back in the day. Its saccharine idealism isn’t made any more palatable by learning that Richard Nixon’s FBI director, L Patrick Gray, ordered all his staff to read it, and a 1973 movie adaptation, complete with Neil Diamond soundtrack, did it no favours either. Film critic Roger Ebert summed it up: “This has got to be the biggest pseudocultural, would-be metaphysical rip-off of the year”.

Little Red Book by Mao Zedong, 1964

During China’s Cultural Revolution it was essential to own and carry one of these pocket-sized volumes of Chairman Mao’s aphorisms, making it second only to the Bible in terms of copies printed. It was also adopted by Western hippies, becoming a must-have accessory for every blissed-out fellow traveller, but it’s suffered doubly in the decades since. For a start, there’s the matter of Mao’s involvement in torture, mass killings and the devastating famine that resulted from his Great Leap Forward. 

Source link

Tags: ARTICLEBooksbooks-tag/opinioncoolcultcultureloststory

Recent Stories

  • 23 Best Polo Shirts for Men in 2023: Lacoste, Ralph Lauren, Todd Snyder, and More
  • Stacey Solomon unveils 'stunning' autumn door display including tribute to daughter

Categories

  • Beauty
  • Celebrity
  • Culture
  • Entertainment
  • Fashion
  • Health
  • Living
  • News
  • POW! Recommends
  • Travel
  • Cookie Policy
  • Privacy Statement
  • Opt-out preferences
  • Imprint
  • Disclaimer

© 2020 POW! Showbiz

No Result
View All Result
  • POW! Recommends
  • Celebrity
  • Entertainment
  • Beauty
  • Culture
  • Fashion
  • Living
Manage your privacy
We use cookies to optimize our website and our service.
Functional Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
Manage options Manage services Manage vendors Read more about these purposes
Manage options
{title} {title} {title}
Manage your privacy
We use cookies to optimize our website and our service.
Functional Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
Manage options Manage services Manage vendors Read more about these purposes
Manage options
{title} {title} {title}