Guilty pleasures

[Razeus]

What are your books for guilty pleasure reading?

[Seasider]

Lee Child... Jack Reacher is a Knight Errant for the 21st Century.

[dfloyd]

I like mysteries by P.D. James, Michael Connelly, and a few others. But I generally listen to these on CD while doing something else so my reading tome is not cut into.

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

Star Wars novels, though I barely read them anymore.

[Lokasenna]

The occaisonal Terry Pratchett novel...

[Cunninglinguist]

I would say Playboy, but that's not a book. Plus, I don't feel guilty about objectifying women.

[jlb4tlb]

Robert E. Howard's horror fiction. Also enjoy the writing team of "Preston, Child." They write suspense fiction.

[kasie]

Lee Child... Jack Reacher is a Knight Errant for the 21st Century.

Oh, yes, I love Jack Reacher too and Terry Pratchett never fails to cheer me up as does Jason fforde.

Actually, in light of mortalterror's response below, I think I'll amend that: a doctor once told me 'You should never feel guilty about anything' - I guess he saw too many people beating themselves up about trivia. So, I don't feel guilty about anything I read. I read for pleasure and just about anything that is well written of its kind gives me pleasure. Some subjects don't interest me and I leave them alone but I'll try anything once and as long as it's well written, I enjoy it.

[MystyrMystyry]

I wouldn't describe Pratchett as a particularly guilty pleasure - he's a good modern satirist and as such is as valid as any satirist from any other age or to come


But pure guilt is Tom Clancy - I'm surprised more people haven't indulged in his rich dark chocolate syrup (I suspect they do but don't admit it)




edit: Lokasenna said occasional which I missed - yes, I imagine to only indulge in Patchett occasionally would indeed bring about an attack of the guilts

[mortalterror]

Well, I'm a Protestant, so I pretty much feel guilty about every pleasure.

[Razeus]

I'm going to have to say Stephen King. I haven't read anything he wrote since Bag of Bones (and most recently Full Dark, No Stars), but he's about as silly as I'll go.

[Pecksie]

I read Jude Morgan's 'Passion' and loved it... I also enjoyed a couple of Rosamund Pilcher books.

[Magga]

Well, I'm a Protestant, so I pretty much feel guilty about every pleasure.

God wills it.

No, but seriously, chill out. God won't smite you for reading a good book. I hear so many protestants saying they can't read this or can't read that because they feel guilty -- well, if you're a protestant you should enjoy the Bible (am I right?). Well, if you enjoy the Bible, why not also literature in general and feel good about it?

[prendrelemick]

Terry Pratchett. Including his gnome trilogy for the younger reader.

[Paulclem]

Historical murder mysteries. I also read other crime fiction, but I especially like Philip Kerr's Berlin Noir.

[Emil Miller]

I read Jude Morgan's 'Passion' and loved it... I also enjoyed a couple of Rosamund Pilcher books.

I have a friend in Switzerland who wrote to tell me that she was an avid fan of a Swiss TV series based on the novels of Rosamund Pilcher. Apparently, it was a tremendous success over there and she was very surprised that I had never heard of " Die Pilcher". A couple of years later, I was staying with some friends in Somerset, and glancing at their bookshelf, I saw a novel by her. Out of curiosity I started reading it and thought that it was mediocre stuff but, if you like Cornwall, it might fit the bill if there were nothing more significant to read.

[Mariamosis]

Well, I'm a Protestant, so I pretty much feel guilty about every pleasure.

:lol:

(I hope this is meant in jest because I find it hilarious!)

[Veho]

I've read a couple of David Nicholls' books recently. Including the bestseller (:yikes:) One Day and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I also like some of Alexander McCall Smith's books.

[scoobyd]

My guilty pleasures?

Harlan Coben's series with Myron Bolitar as a protagonist.
Simply loving it, no doubt about it ;)

[TheChilly]

(cough) Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, by Dyan Sheldon (cough)

[Emmy Castrol]

Guilty pleasures... hmm Georgette Heyer or Gaelen Foley romances .... Heyer when I want it clean, Foley when I want some sex ...

[Aurora]

Virginia Andrews

[Cazzasaurus]

Terry Pratchett, like many others it seems! Plus the occasional vampire novel *hides in corner waiting for beating*

[JuniperWoolf]

For someone who leans towards atheism, I read a **** ton of books on ritualistic magic. I don't know why I think it's cool, I just do.

[Trollzane]

2012 the zombie apocalypse. So bad yet so good

[stlukesguild]

Some nights... after 2 in the morning... when no one's around... I draw the blinds, crawl under the blankets with a flashlight, and read my dog-eared copy of Jonathan Livingston Seagull...















April Fool!!!


Now pass another beer and crank up the John Lee Hooker!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNY0K82A7Ac

[wessexgirl]

I read Jude Morgan's 'Passion' and loved it... I also enjoyed a couple of Rosamund Pilcher books.

I've just started this and it is very good. I don't see it as a guilty pleasure though, as it's not junk. It's not written by someone who can't write, or doesn't know their subject. It's well-written and interesting. I will go on to read some of his other stuff too, like Symphony, and The Taste of Sorrow, which are already on my TBR pile.

[Calidore]

For someone who leans towards atheism, I read a **** ton of books on ritualistic magic. I don't know why I think it's cool, I just do.

I don't believe in spooks, but I love ghost and haunted house stories and movies. Entertainment =/= personal philosophy.

[Calidore]

I haven't started them yet, but at a closing Borders, I picked up a couple of Warhammer novel omnibi that got good Amazon reviews. Assuming I like them, those would certainly qualify as guilty pleasures.

[k1ngk0ngwl]

I 2nd Robert E. Howard.

[mal4mac]

Most recent guilty pleasure: "The Valley of Fear" Arthur Conan Doyle - just couldn't stop reading it until I finished it, and felt guilty for missing my beauty sleep. Also, I don't think it's great literature - too many cliches, too shallow, too stilted, too one-dimensional.... but it's a real page turner... That one dimension ('rip-roaring adventure') is difficult to forego. This is probably my main guilty pleasure - I also watch too many cop shows and James Bond movies - they don't offer me a quantum of solace, but provide some kind of guilty escape...