What are they? You know you have them. You've been hiding them for so long, won't it feel good to admit to them now? We won't laugh because we have our secrets too.
I love the Redwall series. I've bought and read every new novel as they come out in paperback. They're meant for young adults and are, by no means, great literary works, but I get just as excited when a new novel comes out as I would for more respected authors. (although I must say I have a great deal of respect for Brian Jacques, he knows his audiance and he knows his strengths as a exciting story teller!)
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Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
*mumbles* I have a small collection of Star Trek books.
Posted by digging_holes (Member # 6237) on :
*through clenched teeth* I have a rather large collection of Star Trek books. And DragonLance books.
*desperately* But I hate those ones now! Honest! Well, OK, maybe not the Star Trek books Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :
Every vampire, witch, and werewolf book ever written for young adults.
*hides in shame*
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
Well, of course on my bed's headboard bookcase I keep all my OSC novels, religious readings, Tolkein, and fine fiction such as Last Ship
But when I really want to cheat and just read some trash, I reach into my hidden stash and pull out Warrior Woman. (a cheap lusty romance-set-in-sci-fi novel)
FG
Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :
*trying not to laugh*
Posted by Trisha the Severe Hottie (Member # 6000) on :
Ummm... the Hatrack BFFAC?
Posted by Scott R (Member # 567) on :
HAH!
I used to read Mack Brolan books.
Buncha weenies.
I'm proud of the crap I used to read!
Posted by advice for robots (Member # 2544) on :
I read most of the Nancy Drew books, and none of the Hardy Boys books. Granted, I was not quite a teenager then, but it definitely was a guilty pleasure.
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
I've started reading the Death Gate Cycle. I have even been *enjoying* it.
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Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :
I read some of the "Little House" spin offs. The Little House in the Highlands is pretty interesting to me, but the series about Laura's daughter Rose felt too much like the Star Wars prequels.
Posted by skillery (Member # 6209) on :
I love Gary Paulsen's books for kids, but that's actually high-quality stuff, so I don't feel a bit guilty.
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
X-Men and Spider-man comics. Sluggy Freelance.
When I was younger I read the Executioner and Destroyer series.
Thank goodness you didn't ask for guilty TV-watching pleasures.
Dagonee
Posted by screechowl (Member # 2651) on :
I still pick up an old Travis McGee book from my old paperback collection and re-read it for pleasure.
(Hint: I think you might have to be over 30 to know Travis McGee real well. Also, he is probably not politically correct on his views of the world any more.)
Posted by Boon (Member # 4646) on :
Does anyone else get a kick out of Piers Anthony's Xanth series? Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
I go in phases with respect to Xanth. His contrived ethical dilemnas just annoy me, especially the one where he says a kid is bound by his parent's promise to an evil machine bent on taking over the world.
Dagonee
Posted by lcarus (Member # 4395) on :
Robert Asprin's Phule series. Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
I've gotten and read a few of the Star Wars spin-off books.
Hobbes Posted by beatnix19 (Member # 5836) on :
When I was younger I read a number of the Star War books. I remember really enjoying Timothy Zahn's trilogy but other than that they really stunk but for some reason I kept trying and now own around ten of them. Posted by Da_Goat (Member # 5529) on :
Dr. Seuss. That's about all. Even though I've read almost everything in this thread, I'm young enough that YA and Adult Fiction are both considered normal for me. Posted by beverly (Member # 6246) on :
As a teen, I bought every STNG book I could get my hands on. I have long since sold them all.
I am a sucker for the eye-candy and intrigue of Elf Quest.
Posted by Jenny Gardener (Member # 903) on :
Every so often, I like to hunt up short-story erotica. And I go bonkers over every new insect book that hits my library shelves. Also, I've discovered a crave for comic books, especially the newer X-Men.
Posted by vwiggin (Member # 926) on :
Arsene Lupin, a James Bond meets Sherlock Holmes type of series. Posted by fugu13 (Member # 2859) on :
ElfQuest rules.
<--- has huge elfquest collection.
Posted by Amka (Member # 690) on :
I have a few star trek books too.
And a paperback of "The Empire Strikces Back".
When I was a kid, I loved the "choose your own adventure" books.
Posted by Book (Member # 5500) on :
............I really like Harry Potter. Posted by Eaquae Legit (Member # 3063) on :
I've read (and still own) a large collection of "Forgotten Realms" books, a smaller group of DragonLance books, a few Star Trek and Star Wars books. (I think I only bought one of the Star Trek ones - I swear there's an L-space portal in my room that randomly expells either Star Trek books or books 100+ years old periodically!) Those and my Xanth books are the remnants of my early discoveries of the genres of Fantasy and sci-fi. I'm a packrat, and I almost NEVER throw away a book. It's even a wrench to give away duplicate copies. I have other books I bought then, but they were actually good.
I'm not ashamed to say I have Paulsen and Jacques on my shelves - I don't care if it's YA, so long as it's a good book. Perhaps Gordon Korman could be considered a guilty pleasure, but I can't really feel guilty about his stuff - it's just too darn funny.
I think the REAL guilty pleasure (as opposed to pure guilt and a case of packratness) is my collection of Animorphs. I have almost the whole series, and I bought them faithfully until the series ended. And I can't even use the excuse of "I was young" since I started reading them at 16, and continued until first year uni when they ended. I still like them.
Posted by Danzig (Member # 4704) on :
Redwall, some Dragonlance, some Star Wars. Zahn is far and away the only author who should be allowed to touch the Star Wars universe, and honestly they should have hired him to write the plots for the second trilogy.
I feel no guilt for reading Sluggy Freelance.
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
Harry Potter is not a guilty pleasure! It's just a pleasure!
Posted by beatnix19 (Member # 5836) on :
Harry Potter???
You feel bad about that? Well, you shouldn't. Any book that can turn a bunch of lazy couch potatoes(young and old) into a reader is a wonderful book in my eyes. Plus the writting is excellent, and worthy of the huge following.
Posted by vwiggin (Member # 926) on :
<-- Stood in line for the last two HP books. Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
Me too. Posted by beatnix19 (Member # 5836) on :
<-- Saw last two HP movies on opening night, at midnight, alone!
I kind of a sad strange little man Posted by Ayelar (Member # 183) on :
When I was a teenager (all of 5 years ago), I not only had several Star Trek books (Voyager, no less!), but also some X-Files novels!!
I was hopeless. Posted by jeniwren (Member # 2002) on :
Amka, those choose your own adventure books were all that got my brother and me through some of our family vacations. We *loved* them.
My guilty reading pleasure is Mercedes Lackey and Anne McCaffery. Pern and Valdemar. Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
I also read the Trixie Belden mysteries.
Posted by Book (Member # 5500) on :
Well, as your apparently average college male, I think I might have more reason to feel ashamed than others... Maybe.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
quote:Every so often, I like to hunt up short-story erotica. And I go bonkers over every new insect book that hits my library shelves. Also, I've discovered a crave for comic books, especially the newer X-Men.
So then the perfect guilty pleasure for you, Jenny, would be an erotic graphic novel whose protagonists were insects.
I can't really think of any guilty reading pleasures...hmmm...well, there's most of Harry Turtledove's work, I suppose, and Eric Flint's 1632/33/Circle of Fire series, and S.M. Stirling's series about Nantucket Island getting cast back into time. Those are all relatively poorly written books that I enjoyed thoroughly. I don't feel embarassed by liking them though, so I don't know if they count.
Posted by knightswhosayni! (Member # 4096) on :
I still read every Terry Goodkind book that comes out.
Ni!
Posted by lcarus (Member # 4395) on :
So do I, but I can't say that it's much of a pleasure.
-o-
I've bought the Harry Potter books, but I haven't yet gotten around to reading them. Still, based on what I know about them, I don't think there's any reason at all to feel guilty about them.
Posted by beverly (Member # 6246) on :
Oh, *chuckles* I've got another one. I loved "The Birth of the Firebringer" series. I bet most of you haven't even heard of it. If you have, you would be embarrassed for me.
Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :
quote: So then the perfect guilty pleasure for you, Jenny, would be an erotic graphic novel whose protagonists were insects.
I wonder how Jenny feels about tentacles.
Posted by gwan (Member # 6194) on :
speak by: Laurie halse anderson its ths hopeless angsty, like 200 page novel, that i just can't stop reading. I've read it about 6 or 7 times.... I am ashamed. Posted by Jenny Gardener (Member # 903) on :
PSI: Don't ask questions you don't really want the answers to.
Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :
I know we're not supposed to laugh, but:
Jenny.
Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
yaoi fan fiction You don't want to know. So I won't tell.
Posted by Jenny Gardener (Member # 903) on :
Once, and I don't think I'll ever be able to find it again, I read a short piece about octopi that "attacked" a skin diver and almost drowned her because of the ways they distracted her. It was simultaneously HILARIOUS and embarrasingly sensual.
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
quote:I feel no guilt for reading Sluggy Freelance.
To be fair, I don't actually feel guilty about any of my reading choices. If I gave a damn what others thought, though, these would be the ones I would be less up front about reading...
Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :
Jenny. Why isn't there a head-shaking smily?
Here: Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
quote: Redwall series
Yep.
quote: large collection of Star Trek books
Full shelf, stacked four layers deep.
quote: Every vampire, witch, and werewolf book ever written for young adults.
Well, I've probably missed a few, but yeah, me too.
quote: Does anyone else get a kick out of Piers Anthony's Xanth series?
Guilty as charged.
quote: Robert Asprin's Phule series.
And the Myth books too.
quote: Anne McCaffery. Pern
Check. And once upon a time, I wrote Pern fanfic . . .
And I love HP too (there's even some good fanfic around).
But none of the above makes me feel at all guilty. No, that is reserved for the shelf full of romance novels. Posted by jexx (Member # 3450) on :
I like Nora Roberts. There, I've said it.
I also like Laurell K. Hamilton (vampires, necromancers, werewolves, sex and murder mysteries--yay!).
I also like Johanna Lindsey.
So there. I am girly. I don't care.
Posted by Zalmoxis (Member # 2327) on :
Swedenborg.
Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
quote:Guilty reading pleasures. Come on, we won't laugh.
Yes, you would. Really. Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
CT, it's okay. We'd never laugh that your favorite book is Chicken Soup for the Mechanic's Soul.
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Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :
I would. Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :
Someday, I am going to write "Chicken Soup for the Vegetarian Soul"
Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
Worse, katharina.
I, um, bought it at a grocery store. But that's all I'm saying.
Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :
The World Weekly News? CT
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
CT reads tabloids! *coughs* *chokes*
'Scuse me, I'll be right back.
*runs from thread, NOT laughing*
Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :
She didn't admit it was tabloids. Maybe it was one of those books about "Your Cat and the Zodiac" or "Lose Weight with the Prophecies of Nostradamus"
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Hey, I *love* the Weekly World News! It's the 8th highest circulating paper in the world, I'll have you know!
It's easily the most creative newspaper in existance. In high school I bought it on a weekly basis, and I still buy the occasional issue, when something really funny is featured!
Kat!
CT--I'm dying of curiosity! What? What is it? I must know! If I laugh, I promise it won't be malicious!
Am I right in thinking that Laura Hamilton is basically SF/Fantasy erotica? I've got that impression, but I've never read any of her stuff.
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
The July 13, 1998 edition of this?
Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
No. Well, okay. It's Chase the Moon by Catherine Nicolson, and it has opera, and dashing across the Champs d'Elysses in high heels and a Balenciaga, and the perfect meal of apricots, chocolate, and a baguette, and the best quote ever:
quote:Empty pockets make for inspiration.
I love it, and the author never wrote another, at least not under that name. I collect used copies when I find them, as I think there was only the one printing.
*sigh
Okay, laugh away. I knew it was coming.
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Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :
And yet there are still 73 copies availble. The plot thickens.
That first user review reminds me of that scene in "As Good as it Gets" where Melvin is accosted by his publisher's receptionist.
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Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :
quote: yaoi fan fiction You don't want to know. So I won't tell.
I had you figured for a yaoi fan, Syn. HEHEHE...
As for me, I still like Piers Anthony... And I read a LOT of pointless, silly shoujo manga. I suppose my guiltiest pleasure would have to be Shonen Jump, though I don't consider it guilty. Hehehe. I LOVE SHONEN JUMP!! Hmmm... Other than that... I used to read Animorphs, but I got tired of it. I don't consider my James Herriot books a guilty pleasure... Neither my books about Japanese culture... Or Tamora Pierce... I just like books! Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
CT, following your link, it sure looks like the author has another more recent book -- The Golden City.
And judging by the reviews, Chase the Moon is beloved by those who have read it. I'll have to see about getting my hands on a copy.
Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
It came along at the perfect time in my life. I was fouteen, impressionable, out to change the world, and a Romantic.
My first inlet to Pagliacci and Basque culture, it also spurred me to grit my teeth and travel 400 miles in the dead of night, back when I ran away from home to go to college. I didn't even have a driver's license -- my friend drove my brother's car down, and I read the manual by flashlight.
Wow. Memories. Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :
oh yeah, and shoujo manga.
Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
rivka, no way! You are right.
*aghast
Girl, what took you 15 frequin' years to get your writing bum in gear? Okay, that's it. I'm off to Borders.
(Wow, rivka, thanks! )
[Edit: And just BTW, I am not "A reader from Canada" in the reviews, although I, too, was fourteen when I found it. ]
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Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Well, it had no reviews -- hope it lives up to her first book! (with that many years to practice, one would HOPE it would be even better )
You're welcome! But I take no responsibility for quality.
Did find these synopses:
quote: In Mayfair in 1909, Mary Mizen, fresh from the country, is loosed on the lives of three people: wealthy, debauched Quintin Lavery, fiery young artist Leo de Morgan and ethereal aristocrat Sibell Gifford. Their destinies are bound together until conflict threatens to destroy hopes of happiness.
and
quote:Mayfair, 1909 - Mary, fresh from the country, is loosed into the lives of three people. Wealthy, debauched, Quintin Lavery wants Mary for himself, but she cannot be owned. Aided by fiery young artist Leo de Morgan, who loves ethereal aristocrat Sibell Gifford, she escapes.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
That wasn't nearly so embarassing as the things I'd dreamt up while I waited for you to post! Where's the fun in *that*, I ask you?
Hope you enjoy the author's latest!
So you ran away from home to go to college? I'd love to hear about that sometime when you feel like sharing.
Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
rivka, my hero. I also saw an audio version marked as "WARNING: Explicit Sexual Content." Guess what I'll be reading on my overnight shift tonight.
I don't know if she could redo the magic of that first one. It's really stood the test of time for me. Ahh, well. We'll see.
Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
Noemon, I will write out that story sometime. It was truly High Adventure.
And yes, it is embarrassing, but in a much-loved teddy bear kinda way. Now you've seen my soft underbelly.
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Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
I have done Xanth, Star Trek, I'm even reading Dragonlance as we speak, mainly as an attempt to clean out my bookshelves.
I am a big Laurell K Hamilton fan (her description of St. Louis, minus most of the supernatural stuff, is dead on) and even have a signed copy of one on her books.
This brings to mind the next question--What do you do with the brain candy once you've read it. It has little reread value. Is it worth saving like OSC and Tolkien?
Everytime I trade a book at the used bookstore I feel guilty somehow.
However my guiltiest pleasure...
Old D&D books.
Posted by amira tharani (Member # 182) on :
Oh man... I read lots of YA and children's fiction still, though I don't feel too guilty about re-reading Tamora Pierce when I need a break - or Redwall or the Anne of Green Gables or Little House series, for that matter.
I think the fact that I enjoyed Alexander McCall Smith's "The No1 Ladies Detective Agency" series and bought all four books and read them within two days is probably a guilty reading pleasure of sorts... I travel on trains a lot, so I do pick up the odd tabloid... but these are GOOD tabloids!
Posted by Jon Boy (Member # 4284) on :
I've also read quite a few Star Wars and Star Trek books (until I realized that they mostly sucked). I thought Peter David was really good, and I secretly wished that he would write the script for a Star Trek movie. Timothy Zahn's first Star Wars series was good, but the second one was crap. I quite enjoyed Kevin J. Anderson's Star Wars books, though.
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
CT ran off to college? One more reason she's my hero.
Posted by blacwolve (Member # 2972) on :
People tease me about what I read so much that I've stopped getting embarrassed- too much work.
However I will say that I've read every Star Wars book written until about 4 years ago, when I stopped.
Posted by cochick (Member # 6167) on :
My guilty reading secret from way back when are:
Harry Harrison's Stainless Steel Rat series (I was a teenager is my excuse for these)
I also own up to Robert Asprins Myth and Phule Series - but not the ghost written stuff (I really have no excuse as I was in my 20's but they were great to read on the train on the way home from work - bubble gum for the mind)
I don't think the following should be classed as guilty pleasures: Harry Potter, Anne McCaffrey's Pern series, Terry Goodkind.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
CT, I saw the audio book too. But I figured you knew -- or at least suspected -- about the nature of the content, and it had no other useful info.
Posted by cochick (Member # 6167) on :
I sure wish I'd kept all my brain candy books - I could probably have made a fortune on Amazon now.
I only keep stuff I know I'm going to want to reread.
Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :
I read a lot of Trek books, too. I liked them, mostly! But I haven't read any in a long time. The older ones for TNG were pretty good.
I also read a metric ton of books by Dean Koontz, most of which I'm ashamed I read, aside from Seize the Night and the other one about the same character... I liked almost all of the books, but they're so... formulaic.. But still. The only Dean Koontz book I read that I didn't like was The House of Thunder.. It was just... So... (stabs book)
Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :
Alright, alright, I read Star Trek books.
Big deal.
I wish that was the worst thing to confess.
It's not.
Sometimes, I go to the Young Adult section in Borders and buy a Buffy book. I always tell the cashier they're for my niece.
But they're not.
*shuffles away, head hung in shame*
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
::rubs soft underbelly affectionately::
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
Wow...
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Not like that!
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
It made me blush...
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
No, no, you know how cats won't usually let you pet their stomachs, but occasionally, if they really like you a lot, they will? Like that!
Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
*contemplates possible comments about cats/kats and soft underbellies*
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
quote:but occasionally, if they really like you a lot, they will?
That's exactly how I took it. Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :
*feeling better - not my underbelly being discussed.*
(relieved)
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
It could be, if you like . . .
Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :
Nope - there's only one touchy-feely-huggy-rubby person in our household. That person ain't me. Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
oo. I like Laurell K Hamilton Especially the Merry Series. It's so sexy...
Posted by Chizpurfle (Member # 6255) on :
Okay, to tell you the truth, the only reason I got into Harry Potter fanfiction was because of Hatrack. I blame this entirely on Olivet who once posted a link to Draco Dormiens and Irresistible Poison (Slash originally irked me but after a while it started to grow on me. I'm addicted to it now). Posted by HRE (Member # 6263) on :
Hi. My name is Daniel, and I like Anne McGaffrey.
(That is applause)
Posted by Eaquae Legit (Member # 3063) on :
Oh, and I should add a pleasure - a geeky one rather than a guilty one - is my Tolkien collection. I collect different editions of LOTR. The most recent additions being in French, Italian, and Greek, as I visited the respective countries recently.
Oh, and my roommate and I dressed up for the HP5 book launch - she was a Death Eater and I was Mme Rosmerta.
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Posted by Anthro (Member # 6087) on :
Lessee. . .
I have some Star Wars Jedi Apprentice books and Star Wars diaries, though I don't read them.
Lots of young adult vampire books--vampires scare the crap outa me.
Fanfic. Shuddap.
Well, you know, everyone should regress to the young adult section once in a while. Even children's. Beautiful stories, a lot of them. I personally love the So You Want To Be A Wizard series.
Posted by jexx (Member # 3450) on :
Ooh! I forgot about Buffy. Yes, I have several Buffy e-books. So there! I started reading Buffy fan fiction when I ran out of money for books, but most of it was gross and/or stupid, so I quit that.
I don't count McCaffrey as a guilty pleasure. Should I?
Yes, Laurell K. Hamilton writes in a sort of SF/F genre in the Merry books, but I would classify the Anita Blake books more as a supernatural vein (so to speak, harhar). Isn't she nummy? I love LKH's Merry books, too, Syn, but the Blakes are my favorites because I love Anita's mix of vulnerability and strength.
Dan: you've told me about your signed copy of LKH's book before, and I think I forgot to mention that I hate you. Bunches. (j/k )
amira: I love love love The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency!! I don't think of it as a guilty pleasure, it does have theme and developed characters, etc. It's just too short! My dream is to one day have all four books in a combined edition. My other dream is that Alexander Mcsomething Smith never quits writing those books. Posted by blacwolve (Member # 2972) on :
I've been reading my Organic Chemistry textbook every night before I go to bed. For fun. Not so much guilty as supremely sad, but oh well.
Posted by Belle (Member # 2314) on :
I'm sorry, but I've have given up on Laurell K. Hamilton. Her early Anita novels were exciting, interesting, different, and I was a huge Jean-Claude fan.
But, they got into the sex too much. And then it turned to really violent sex and stuff that creeped me. I'm no prude, I had no trouble with most of the early books, but after Narcissus in Chains - I bowed out.
I read the Merry novels hoping to find the early Anita novels, and only found the later ones. So, she's off my list now.
As for guilty pleasures, I have a lot of the same ones you guys have: Pern, Redwall, ElfQuest, some DragonLance, and a few others.
Posted by Dobbie (Member # 3881) on :
Sometimes I read posts on [shudder] pweb.
Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
quote: I also read the Trixie Belden mysteries.
I'm reading Trixie Belden and The Black Jacket Mystery right now. Posted by Chizpurfle (Member # 6255) on :
I stopped reading Laurell K. Hamilton after the third book, not because I stopped liking it particularly, but because I'm too shy to buy it. I mean honestly, just look at the covers. Yes, in reading the novels I am basically admitting to myself that I am actually enjoying this fantasy equivalent of a trashy romance novel but...that is not the point!
The point here folks, is that no one is suppose to know. Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
Noemon, I take it in the spirit it was intended.
Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
I like elfquest as well. And Japanese Manga
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
quote: I personally love the So You Want To Be A Wizard series.
Ooh yes! Diane Duane's stuff -- ALL her stuff (well, except the V novels, haven't read those) is wonderful!
And I not only read fanfic, but on rare occasions write it. *glare* SO?
Posted by vwiggin (Member # 926) on :
So, we're breaking out the comic books too hey?
The Maxx, Dragonballs, and X-Factor.
Posted by plaid (Member # 2393) on :
Hmm, I don't have many "guilty" pleasures. I cheerfully read comics and kids' books without any guilt.
OK, sometimes I'll peek at superhero comics at the newsstand. That's a guilty pleasure, since they're usually pretty mediocre... but I grew up reading them, so it's hard not to peek and see what the writers are doing with/to them nowadays...
Actually, probably my guiltiest pleasure is reading USA Today or the St. Louis Post-Dispatch if it's laying around. They're both bad newspapers and I know that if I read the news articles I'm filling up my head with shallow fluff versions of what's going on in the world and that I'd be better off reading articles in more serious papers or magazines... but... it's what's there in front of me... oh yeah, same for Newsweek or Time...
Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
oh, yeah, and most of the books I read are young adult novels... But those are the BEST books!
Posted by Chris Bridges (Member # 1138) on :
I have no guilty pleasures. I revel in them all. Science fiction, fantasy, vampires, good romance, funny chic lit, comics, kid's books, erotica, anything that holds my attention and (especially) makes me laugh or think, I carry proudly.
It helps that I'm exceptionally difficult to embarrass.
But, let me get this straight. Some of you read books and then... get rid of them? Out of the house and to other people and everything?
Wow. That would clear up some space, wouldn't it? Hmm...
[ March 09, 2004, 12:50 AM: Message edited by: Chris Bridges ]
Posted by Anthro (Member # 6087) on :
I love comics. Especially manga and the really obscure superheroes, who often have some of the greatest artistic style in the drawings.
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Jenny.
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