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What's your guilty secret reading?

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Snooks14 · 17/04/2010 19:17

What book do you read which you know is absolute trash but you love it anyway?
Mine would be Scruples and Lace - my sister's had them when I was about 11ish and I used to sneak in and read the naughty bits!
I finally read them for myself when I was about 17 or 18 and I still love them - will reread them now and again - like a guilty pleasure.
I also love to now and again reread some of my favourites from when I was young - Little Women and The Little house on the praire books - its like comfort reading.
Anyone else have books like that?

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TeamEdward · 18/04/2010 22:12

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EmilyStrange · 18/04/2010 22:08

I have never really believed that a book that entertains me is trash. If someone is able to write a story that holds your attention and is enjoyable how can it be bad. So I have no guilty secret reading, all the books I enjoy that are commonly considered trash have as much a public place on my shelves as the classics.

ATinofBiscuits · 18/04/2010 22:01

Cheers Team, thanks. I will peruse...

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EasterBilby · 18/04/2010 17:05

Kids books mainly I love Malory Towers and St Clare's. Also anything by Judy Blume and Paula Danziger.
On the adult front, Mills & Boon, Catherine Cookson, I used to read a lot of Jilly Cooper too. In fact at uni I did a module on "Romantic & Gothic Popular Fiction" we did Mills & Boon and Bonkbusters (and some more highbrow stuff.) I can honestly say it was the only time I read all the books on the course list, and I even read around the subject too.
Days in bed reading Jilly Cooper was such a chore

I've got a huge soft spot for Freya North too she's the only chicklit author I can read, every other chicklit book has me chuntering with annoyance.

ATinofBiscuits · 18/04/2010 15:42

Team, to save me trawling your Twil threads please give me a link to some good fanfic.

I thought exactly the same thing you said regarding Stephanie Meyer's book, that they were not that well written.

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dearprudence · 18/04/2010 09:00

Have just ordered some Georgette Heyer, as a result of this thread. Excited

barbarianoftheuniverse · 18/04/2010 01:05

Love in a Cold Climate, Pursuit of Love- Nancy Mitford.
Betsy McDonald
Rumer Godden

juneybean · 18/04/2010 00:50

Yes yes

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Snooks14 · 18/04/2010 00:49

Twilight is fabulous and Harry Potter is most definetly not a guilty secret - I love, love them.
I think I read the Farway Tree as a child - is it Enid Blyton?

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juneybean · 18/04/2010 00:39

LOL mermaidspam !

BouncingTurtle Buffy fanfiction??? Really?? What pairing

Mine has to be Twilight, Gossip Girl, Harry Potter... and I re-read The Folk of the Faraway Tree last year

Mermaidspam · 18/04/2010 00:29

Point Horror

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Snooks14 · 18/04/2010 00:16

Just thought of another one - the Flowers in the attic series by Virgina Andrews - when I was a teenager I loved these books - though by the end they were getting a bit weird.
Then I read my Sweet Audrina by the same writer - and my God - I think she was on something at the time.

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janeite · 17/04/2010 22:34

I read a Nicci French book on holiday one year, having picked it up in desperation at the pool bar. It was shockingly bad - the capture of the baddie was entirely down to 'a mother's intuition' and it was so badly written I could have wept.

Pekkala · 17/04/2010 22:21

Vampire stuff -
all of True Blood (thank you Book People - £8.99 for 8 books so A Bargain)

"Lost Souls" by Poppy Z Brite. This is FAB, it's one of the only books I re-read over and over.

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dearprudence · 17/04/2010 22:18

missmoopy - yes, it's partly that too. DH sings it, and it was a favourite name if we'd had a daughter. All came together really.

seeker · 17/04/2010 22:17

Bouncingturtle - I remember the Anne Rice Sleeping Beauty ones - I think I've got them in a box somewhere. Must dig them out - althout I suspect I may be too lod for them now!

BouncingTurtle · 17/04/2010 22:15

You need to read all three as it is basically one story in 3 parts.
BAsically is set in a fairy tale Kingdom, where the story starts when the Prince awakes Beauty from her 100 year sleep by shagging her and turning her into his naked slave...

ATinofBiscuits · 17/04/2010 22:09

Are they Bouncing, I must rush out and buy some...Are there any ones in particular you would recomend

WingedVictory · 17/04/2010 22:06

azazello, I haven't read Rachal Johnson in book form, but her wildly-out-of-touch Sunday Times column does appeal, which brings me to another guilty read: the Sunday Times style mag. Ugh... well, actually, oooooohhhh.....

itsybitsy08 · 17/04/2010 22:01

Snooks14, thankyou! I feel better now

I forgot about mark billingham, i read most of his one after the other!

I dont recall the title but i probably have, i read that much! They all sort of merge! Ive never read one by her i didnt like though

BouncingTurtle · 17/04/2010 22:01

Anne Rice's Sleeping Beauty Trilogy (though I am generally a fan of her work, I have most nearly all of her books!). But the Sleeping Beauty ones are fairly hardcore porn

Star Trek Novels

And Star Trek/Buffy/Battlestar Galatica Fan fiction

Now that is seriously sad and geeky lol

azazello · 17/04/2010 22:00

Oh god, Wendy Holden. I see that and raise you Rachel Johnson.