What's your guilty secret reading?

[Snooks14]

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?

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

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

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.....

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

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...

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

Point Horror

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

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?

Yes yes

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

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

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.

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.

Cheers Team, thanks. I will peruse...

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.

Oh God. Have read through the thread and no-one has mentioned my reading guilty pleasure which either means a) it really is that bad or b) you all think she's great and I'm going to be accused of being a book snob!

So (deep breathe) here goes.... (whispers)... I love Martina Cole books (but only when no-one's looking)