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I thought I'd continue the books trend a little further. I'm sure we've all enjoyed some books thoroughly, but now are embarassed to mention that you enjoyed them for whatever reason. Please, tell us, and end the vicious cycle of hidden secrets
I loved the Robotech novelizations when I was a teenager. I don't think I enjoyed any books except for those. They are actually what made me want to be a writer. I get embarassed to mention that fact since all the book loving people I know were reading classics at the time I had my nose stuck in what would be the modern equivalent to a dime novel. It was melodramatic, it was cheezy, but the third book in the series actually made me cry because they killed my favorite character.
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I enjoyed Kevin J. Anderson's Star Wars books. I also enjoyed the first six Wheel of Time books, but they started to go downhill quite a bit after that.
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Star Trek: TNG. I have a whole shelf of them. *hides in couch*
Added: And while it's a little melodramatic now, I didn't mind Flowers in the Attic. I'd love to see an academic examination of the appeal of those books. They seemed to be designed for young teenage girls to explore the world opening before them in the most familiar setting possible.
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Oh, I also enjoyed several Star Trek books by Peter David and Dafydd ab Hugh, and possibly a few others that I don't remember.
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I loved the Incarnations of Immortality series, read and re-read them when I was in my teens and early 20's. Earlier this year I got curious and wanted to read them again, so I tracked them down and re-read the series. Not so good anymore. I couldn't finish it.
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I don't really have this problem with books... but some of the music I used to like is a little embarassing now.
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Pix, if you loved the Wrinkle in Time series as a kid, you may still like them. I also re-read that series earlier this year, since my son was reading them, and loved it just as much as I did when I was his age.
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Oh, I can't say it. It's too embarrassing to admit.
(But it is found in the one genre of literature not found in either the Library of Congress OR the Dewey Decimal System)
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hey, now, that was a good series... I wish I knew what happened to my copy of the second book.
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I can't really think of any authors that I'm embarrassed to admit to liking, but there are definitely authors whose writing I think is pretty bad, but whose stuff I enjoy anyway. Harry Turtledove, S.M. Stirling, and Eric Flint's stuff (well, the 163X books, anyway) all fall into this category
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quote:Originally posted by The Pixiest: Tante: Spill it. We admitted liking Piers Anthony!
I also admitted to liking Anthony. You know, don't you, what genre is not included in either the Library of Congress of the Dewey Decimal System?
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Oh, I didn't mean that I'm embarrassed to admit I like L'Engle. I just meant that she's a good adult-reread-after-loving-as-a-child. Unlike the Incarnations of Immortality series.
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Most of the stuff I read (science fiction and fantasy) I'm not embarassed about. I'm sort of embarassed that I have as many Calvin and Hobbes collections as I do. At times it makes me feel like I'm just a big kid instead of a 20 year old. Nothing to really get ashamed about though.
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I still have a bookshelf with Marguerite Henry books (Misty of Chincoteague books) and American Girl books. I also used to read the Mandie books by Lois Gladys Leppard, and some of the Saddle Club series.
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Hehehehe... jamie didn't spill the real goods.
Jamie isn't just currently reading a book. Jamie has about 75 star trek books.
However, to make this post about me, and thats what really matters, I do admit to reading every single Animorphs book that K.A. Applegate wrote, which is about 56 of them... maybe 58.
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At least the Nancy Drew books have been somewhat gentrified. They're like the classics of crap lit from the good old days. They'll probably be around long after kids have forgotten Goosebumps, Sweet Valley, Animorphs and the Baby-sitters club.
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I worked for three years as a library page. There was this one book called Sex: A Natural History. It said the sex part in big letters too. It was located at 612.6 and had a renaissance-esque painting of people getting it on if I recall correctly, but was only borrowed once or twice. I found it all over the library, and it was in quite a manhandled condition for a book that was never really taken out.
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When I was a teenager I think I read every Victoria Holt gothic romance I could get my hands on.
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Olivet, I'm not only embarrassed to admit that I've read those books, I'm embarrassed to admit I even know they exist. But I also admit that I didn't love them.
I admit that I DO love the Pern series, Lackey's books, including the Valdemar series and especially the Elemental series. And I love Connie Willis's romance about the been-to who comes to stay. Can't remember the title now. I just hate that. But they are absolute fluff.
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A few short lived sci-fi comic books when I was younger that I still have and still think the story rocks.
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KQ, I always worry about Nancy Drew. If memory serves, she manages to get clopped on the head and knocked unconscious in just about every book. That is an awful lot of traumatic brain injury. She may have lifelong neurological impairments, parkinsonism, seizure disorder...
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And I don't like all kinds of smut. Most of it I intensely dislike. But there are certain interesting niches...
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