What is Your Favorite Guilty Pleasure books ?

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This topic covers all of the genres. Which book with the bill of guilty pleasure reads? :)
 
I read Lee Child's Reacher books as kind of a guilty pleasure. But also as an instructive one. His plot-building abilities are impressive.
 
Well, Star Trek novels for one. Not high art, but they can be quite fun. Conversely, I find most Star Wars novels unreadable.
 
I still really enjoy a lot of the old Dragonlance novels, which are not exactly the best written novels, but they still have a special place in my heart. Same thing goes for Eragon.
 
Warhammer novels fantsy and 40 K. In al . I've read 50 of them and I rather enjoy reading them ,

Top of my list for Warhammer 40k writers are Dan Abnett, Sandy Mitchell and guy Haley. Its some of the best military science fiction I've ever read. The story telling is excellent, the universe of 40k is a fascinating one. :)

In the fantasy universe William King and Nathan long . The Gotrek and Felix series is classic stuff and fun to read. :)
 
I started a thread on this exact topic maybe 2 or so years ago, and we had many many contributors. Should be possible to find it, since I too used "guilty pleasure" in the title. I'm too lazy to search, but I recommended the Monster Hunters series by Larry Correia as well as others I'm forgetting.

In addition to many contributors in the thread with great recommendations, I believe it was Kat that took academic interest in deconstructing the phrase "guilty pleasure" and explaining that I really meant something else. LOL :)

Edit: Actually two prior threads: http://www.sffworld.com/forum/threads/guilty-pleasure-books.43702/#post-739695. http://www.sffworld.com/forum/threads/list-your-guilty-pleasure-reads.42623/
 
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Battlefield Earth . I like the book alot . It like reading a giant golden ages science fiction novel . I've also read Fear, Slaves of Sleep and Typewriter in the Sky. L Ron Hubbard is fun to read .:cool:
 
Monster Hunter International... Anything by Larry Correia really.
 
Oh *hangs head* my guilty pleasure novel would have to be The Redemption of Althalus by David Eddings. I just love it!
 
Clive Cussler, especially his Dirk Pitt and Kurt Austin books. The Jack Reacher books as well. And with Baylor, I read Battlefield Earth every now and again, love it, especially the 2nd half when the Psychlos have been defeated.
 
Oh I just love the Dirk Pitt books... now you are talking about my childhood there! They are such great adventure stories... a genre that seems to be growing in recent years.
 
Vince - "I find most Star Wars novels unreadable."
Ordinarily I would agree, but there are exceptions....
The Darth Bane Star Wars novels don't by any means qualify as classic literature, but they were a fun read.
 
Ghidorah said:
Vince - "I find most Star Wars novels unreadable."
Ordinarily I would agree, but there are exceptions....
The Darth Bane Star Wars novels don't by any means qualify as classic literature, but they were a fun read.
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Oh there certainly are. I enjoyed I, Jedi and the Thrawn trilogy and a couple of others.
 
BAYLOR said:
Battlefield Earth . I like the book alot . It like reading a giant golden ages science fiction novel . I've also read Fear, Slaves of Sleep and Typewriter in the Sky. L Ron Hubbard is fun to read .:cool:
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I've never actually read Battlefield Earth. I read that first Mission Earth book and was put off his writing completely. That and, you know, Scientology.
 
Gossip girl is one of my favorite Guilty pleasure book, During the particularly bleak summer of my 11th year, I spent a month hiding from my wicked step-mother in the basement bedroom I shared with my brother. No TV, no movies, and very little radio reception meant I read more than usual.
 
Nick Carter novels, the cold war AXE agent (not the early 20th century Nick Carter). I don't devour every word but some chapters are really tight, model thriller fiction I'd say. Like in most of The Treason Game and The Doomsday Spore (a bit of sf-theme in the latter one, only marginally though, about some spore transmitted over here from Mars).
 
Howard's Conan fits the bill i guess...still an enjoyable break from the denser stuff. And when I'm seriously regressing, LeGuin reappears, alongside Jack Vance :)
 
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And when I'm seriously regressing, LeGuin reappears, alongside Jack Vance :)
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Lots of LeGuin about to be re-released.... and in the UK Jack Vance is regularly being re-released as part of the SF Masterworks series. Good times... :)
 
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