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Are any of these guilty pleasures worth the sheckles? Well, yeah, actually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://media.npr.org/assets/artslife/books/2010/05/what-were-reading/chelsea_custom.jpg?t=1272924866&s=12\" style=\"float:left;margin-right: 15px;margin-bottom: 10px\" alt=\"Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By Chelsea Handler; hardcover, 256 pages; Grand Central, list price, $25.99\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I began with that fabulous, Wicked Wit of the East, comedienne Chelsea Handler. I love Handler’s sense of the absurd and her rapid-fire monologues on cable. Her latest book, \u003cem>Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang\u003c/em>, relates her madcap antics during third grade, vacations and family pow-wows. It’s chock full of sexual awakenings, bickering emails and obscene language: What’s not to love?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of \u003cem>Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang \u003c/em>is gutsy and perversely funny: When she fabricates a comedy based on the Challenger disaster starring herself and Meryl Streep, I chortled out loud. Other times? Well, her book is like stand-up: Your enjoyment depends a lot upon your mood, your willingness to be charmed — and, at least in my case, how many martinis you’ve consumed.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://media.npr.org/assets/artslife/books/2010/11/i-remember-nothing/ephronbook_custom.jpg?t=1289233159&s=12\" style=\"float:left;margin-right: 15px;margin-bottom: 10px\" alt=\"I Remember Nothing\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>I Remember Nothing\u003cbr>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By Nora Ephron; hardcover, 160 pages; Knopf, list price: $22.95\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A second guilty pleasure of mine is to pass judgment on things I know nothing about. As such, I picked up Nora Ephron’s latest, \u003cem>I Remember Nothing, \u003c/em>predisposed not to like it. Why? I have absolutely no idea, except that she’s so popular in my hometown of New York and so good at everything she does (including writing about what she supposedly doesn’t do well) that it brings out the begrudgery in me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet, within the first three pages, I was giggling out loud. Though I’m more of Handler’s generation, I laughed in recognition at Ephron’s tales — perhaps because, while I’ve never proposed a comedy based on the space shuttle disaster, I have, like Ephron, “attended many legendary rock concerts and spent them wondering when they would end and where we would eat afterward.” No topic is too abstract or trivial: she serves up poignant musings on divorce, failure and aging, as well as first-rate comedic kvetching over stuff like Teflon, email, and dessert spoons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>I Remember Nothing \u003c/em>has a likable, every-person sensibility and a fierce, consoling wit. I enjoyed it so much, in fact, that I happily paid for it instead of indulging in my third (and worst) guilty pleasure — reading entire books in the store while hiding behind a shelf.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2010/12/03/lust-love_custom.jpg?t=1291396172&s=12\" style=\"float:left;margin-right: 15px;margin-bottom: 10px\" alt=\"Love, Lust and Faking It\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Love, Lust, And Faking It\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By Jenny McCarthy; hardcover, 256 pages; Harper, list price: $24.99\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And now for something completely different: Over the years, Jenny McCarthy has managed to establish herself as both a Playboy Playmate and an autism activist — no easy feat, I’d say. She’s made a career of the knowing comic wink. Or in her case, the burp, that explodes the facade of her bombshell looks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her new book, titled \u003cem>Love, Lust and Faking It,\u003c/em> is like spending an afternoon with your best friend, a copy of \u003cem>Cosmo \u003c/em>and a low-fat milkshake. McCarthy confides personal stories of heartbreak and humiliation that are truly affecting. Yet these are padded with Twitter surveys, pop psychology and bedroom horoscopes. The result: total junk food. Yummy but substance-less. In the end, I wanted more McCarthy, less artificial additives. Her book is the publishing equivalent of Doritos. Still, who doesn’t love Doritos? I polished off the book in a single sitting. 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Sadly, he writes like he’s 19. \u003cem>Late, Late at Night\u003c/em> groans with over-wrought confessions, cocky asides and adolescent soul-searching. There’s loads of bad behavior and contrition, but little real wisdom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which is a shame, because there’s powerful material here. At 17, Springfield attempted suicide. In 1968, he saw action in Vietnam — as an Australian entertaining the troops. This should be riveting, but his swagger makes it glib.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, if you ever adored Rick Springfield, you’ll probably do as I did: take him to bed, enjoy him more than you want to admit and hate yourself in the morning. \u003cem>Late Late at Night\u003c/em> is, like its author, unsatisfying but embarrassingly seductive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what did I expect, really?\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2010/11/05/keith-richards-life_custom.jpg?t=1288987366&s=12\" style=\"float:left;margin-right: 15px;margin-bottom: 10px\" alt=\"Life\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Life\u003cbr>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By Keith Richards with James Fox; hardcover, 576 pages; Little, Brown and Company, list price: $29.99\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, enter Keith Richards and his memoir, \u003cem>Life. \u003c/em>To be fair, I’m a huge Rolling Stones fan. Richards could cough up a hairball and I’d think it was musical genius. 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