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! Posts: 4816 | Registered: Apr 2003
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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)
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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!
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Nope - there's only one touchy-feely-huggy-rubby person in our household. That person ain't me. Posts: 4344 | Registered: Mar 2003
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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). Posts: 35 | Registered: Feb 2004
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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.
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.
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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. Posts: 1545 | Registered: May 2002
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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.
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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.
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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. Posts: 35 | Registered: Feb 2004
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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...
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oh, yeah, and most of the books I read are young adult novels... But those are the BEST books!
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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...
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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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