Just depends on what you consider guilty. I like Stephen King as a quick light read (in most cases), some people would consider him bad but I enjoy it.
My most guilty pleasure would be the occasional fantasy book though. Dragonlance and such.
Just depends on what you consider guilty. I like Stephen King as a quick light read (in most cases), some people would consider him bad but I enjoy it.
My most guilty pleasure would be the occasional fantasy book though. Dragonlance and such.
lmao no wrries i can't spell that good anyway.....i like reading stephen king...although i don't really have the right to say anything yet because the book i'm reading is the first book i ever am close to finshing on my own outside of school i got about one more reading session to go. the furthest i been in a novel is about 3 pages lol any way see you guys around
For me it's Stephen King and Nora Roberts. Really, I read anything and everything, even People Mag. if I have nothing else.
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Terry Pratchett's Discworld books. They don't make me feel guilty in terms of aesthetics or intellectual stimulation as they are well-written and intelligent, but I tend to read them as displacement - when faced with a bulky and / or dry tome I find myself returning to the Discworld.
Back in the teen years during the James Bond craze I read a slew of Nick Carter--Killmaster novels. The early ones HAD to been ghost written by one writer as there is a definite quality drop around the 30th novel. The action/fight scenes were better then anything Ian Fleming ever wrote and the 'romance' sections were done in such a way that I didn't think (at the time) it was salacious. Would not dare have themin the house now. I do and have hung onto the Donald Hamilton Matt Helm novels and reread them periodically. Reasonably convinced these will burn up as hay wood and stubble as opposed to my Spurgeon readings but I've never hidden the warts.
I have decided that I need to own up to be a huge Douglas Adams fan. I've read the entire Hitchhikers series and loved it. I sometimes just pull out some of his books just to look at my favorite quotes. I love the humor in the wisdom offered upI think I'm going to pull the series out and read it again after thinking of this
Novels by the publisher Mills & Boons and Silhouette romance.
I read these in my college days. It was the 'in' thing for the girls to read such novels, atleast my circle of friends did read such novels. Now, I don't because I find all the stories the same -- rich guy meets poor girl
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rich guy meets poor girl
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My guilty reading are two Dan Brown's books, The Da Vinci Code, and Angels and Demons. The plot and characters are so shallow that they become hilarious, yet I was hooked and couldn't stop reading. The same happened with Harry Potter (the last 2 books).
hehehe... Lote, these publishers aren't Indian, the stories would have been in Hindi otherwise. And, such stories are pretty universal, I guess.
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My guilty pleasure is probably stealing my sisters library books (especially Roald Dahl). Although I guess there's nothing wrong with attempting to recapture the innocence I had when I first read these books. It brings it all back
"Tolerate the spasmodic, the obscure, the fragmentary, the failure" - Virginia Woolf
I don't feel guilty about anything I read, but I do read alot of stuff that's not going to survive for more than ten years after publication. Case in point: I'm a HUGE metalhead, so I have tendency to devour almost anything published on the subject. Not those horrible magazines you find at grocery stores, but alot of books about the genre's history, encyclopedic band lists, biographies, books about the specific sub-genres, etc. All this stuff isn't really a valuable use of my time, and most of it doesn't tell me anything I don't already know, but, inexpicably, I keep reading it anyway.
That and almost any non-fiction related to the mafia and other organized crime. If reading is food for your mind, then reading that type of thing is the equivalent to a deep fried grilled cheese sandwich.
[QUOTE=mkhockenberry;402638]You can count me in too
Unfortunately this isn't all. it's my obsession with vampire novels. Even if they are just awful I have to read them. It's incredibly stupid, but what could you expect from an obsession?
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[QUOTE=Alexei;469930]I wont mention that I just picked up a couple of paranormal romance books just because I couldn't resist
You can count me in too
Unfortunately this isn't all. it's my obsession with vampire novels. Even if they are just awful I have to read them. It's incredibly stupid, but what could you expect from an obsession?
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