Thanks to @chromesthesia for the idea to write about annoying books and bad films!
She read unofficial celebrity biographies, misery memoirs, paranoid conspiracy novels. Third-rate erotica and salacious books about serial killers also featured heavily on her bookshelves.
With films, the lower the production values the better. She devoured badly researched adaptions of badly written historical novels, sci-fi sagas with wobbly sets and clunky analogies. High-concept, high-budget blockbusters with low-ability actors and scripts that sounded like a primary school pageant…
She watched them all.
Art, she believed, should elicit a visceral, heart-pounding response. Nuanced films and elegant novels left her cold. Those she could only analyse.
But the irritation, scorn, disgust; these were real.
Tom Juniper Poetry 