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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!
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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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