A hilarious quest to understand life's ultimate guilty pleasure - in a beautiful gift package. I cite this wonderful humanitarian testimony as I continue on from my last article about taking pleasure in the Daily Celebrity, NY Times, Daily Mirror. A new book, Schadenfreude: The Joy of Pain: Schadenfreude and the influence of in. Schadenfreude : Understanding Pleasure at the Misfortune of Others by Wilco W. Schadenfreude - the pleasure derived from another's misfortune - is an all-too-familiar.