"Guilty Pleasure" books

[kempster]

I'm sure we've had this thread before... anyway, I refuse to feel guilty about reading anything but the naffest thing I like is the Warhammer 40k novels, especially the Dan Abnett ones. Yes it's all ridiculous but Rule Of Cool prevails, and Abnett is a good enough writer that he can work genuinely human characters and suffering into what's basically an overblown wargame.

Hah.... the last Warhammer book I read was BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD by C.L. Werner. I enjoyed it. Some of the dark elf stuff is pretty entertaining as well.

 

[NickeeCoco]

My 'guilty' pleasure reading is harlequin romance novels, but the space opera and fantasy ones. Heh. I only ever read them in e-book format, so no one can see the cover, particularly when I'm using public transit.

I think if you're going to read fantasy, horror and sci-fi, you need to have a bit of a thick skin about reading in public. Let's face it, a lot of covers are pretty ridiculous looking. If I'm willing to read a novel with a half clad man with a sword, a wolf and a pretty much naked woman crouching on a rock, I'm not going to be feeling too guilty about it.

 

[TerrySane]

My 'guilty' pleasure reading is harlequin romance novels, but the space opera and fantasy ones.

Can you recommend me any of the space opera category please?

 

[NickeeCoco]

Can you recommend me any of the space opera category please?

Anna Hackett, T. D. Wilson, and Robert Appleton are good places to start. Here's a link to all of Harlequin's Space Opera. It says Carina Press, but they're a part of Harlequin. They're all e-books. As of right now they don't publish them in print. I guess links to searches don't work, so just go to the main page, the link I've provided, and in the search box type in "space opera". The box isn't particularly visible first glance. You'll see a little magnifying glass in the top right hand corner.

They also have steampunk if you're into that.

http://ebooks.carinapress.com/A110D0AC-A0D4-4B3F-9DC8-B5101241B243/10/134/en/Default.htm

 

[Jack K]

Stephen King's IT

great book... weird parts that make it guilty pleasure

 

[TerrySane]

Anna Hackett, T. D. Wilson, and Robert Appleton are good places to start. Here's a link to all of Harlequin's Space Opera. It says Carina Press, but they're a part of Harlequin. They're all e-books. As of right now they don't publish them in print. I guess links to searches don't work, so just go to the main page, the link I've provided, and in the search box type in "space opera". The box isn't particularly visible first glance. You'll see a little magnifying glass in the top right hand corner.

They also have steampunk if you're into that.

http://ebooks.carinapress.com/A110D0AC-A0D4-4B3F-9DC8-B5101241B243/10/134/en/Default.htm

Thank you

 

[Kzinti]

Guilty pleasure? Those perverted comics they publish in India.

 

[PeteMC]

I thought that was Japan?

 

[Kzinti]

I also forgot to mention Rosario and a Vampire. Most anime is guilty pleasure, but it's better than the cinema they have in America.

 

[Storyrook]

I think if you're going to read fantasy, horror and sci-fi, you need to have a bit of a thick skin about reading in public. Let's face it, a lot of covers are pretty ridiculous looking.

Agreed! Although romance is worse. This is one of my very favorite perks of an e-reader.

 

[Kzinti]

Agreed! Although romance is worse. This is one of my very favorite perks of an e-reader.

I agree. When I read sci fi in public, people always look at me weird. I'm glad I'm not into romance, no offense to romance readers. THey have it much worse.

 

[Edward M. Grant]

To be honest mine are often a break from the genre, love reading Lee Child and Clive Cussler.

I loved Clive Cussler's novels as a teenager, until I read one where I worked out the clever twist before it happened, and stopped. It was only when reading some again recently that I realized how bad many of them were.

As for guilty pleasures, that would probably be 1970s pulp horror. I read through the 'Rats' trilogy the year before last, and I'm on Guy N Smith's 'Doomflight' at the moment. If I have any guilty pleasure in SF, it's probably Gerry Anderson's old TV shows.

 

[cgw]

I remember being a little embarrassed to be reading a Harry Potter book at the at the playground while my kid played. (was not a huge pleasure though, I have only read three of them (1,4,7))

 

[Raven of SD]

Dan Brown. The characters are all paper cutouts and the plotlines are predictable but the writing is so smooth. The scenes are fluid and the pacing keeps you reading. Like reading a Michael Bay movie.

 

[Storyrook]

Like reading a Michael Bay movie.

I love this.