Guilty Pleasure Books: Tell us yours

My guilty pleasure is modern mystery/thrillers, even some good ones written by Harlan Coben and Michael Connelly. But reading the classic ones is just pleasure, no quilty.
 
I have to say that I never feel guilty about anything I read. If I like it then it doesn't matter about how anyone else reacts.

To joinn in the thread through I am trying to pick a topic.....
chick lit, mills & boon, porn...any suggestions as to what I could say just so I'm not left out
 
I'm a proud fan of harry potter books but feel rather guilty when reading Artemis Fowl (serie!) by Eoin Colfer.

And I'm planning on reading "the wish list" too... :p
 
Many years ago ahem cough,cough. when my son was quite young and
he mentioned Wind in the Willows, Great I will get him a copy it was a 1979 hardback published by Methuen,so on my next trip home I had it with me said to my son I have a book for you The Wind in the Willows, it's Ok Dad I have seen the video.Arrgh but he did go to read quite a lot later on, as I had read it as a child and really enjoyed it.

So I read it again still thought was a good piece of escapism, now the guilty part William Horwood brought out four Willows books and I bought them as well :eek: last one was in 1999.

When my Grandson is old enough maybe he will like the Wind in the Willows as I have every intention of getting him Where's my Coo By Pterry. :)
 
The King of Guilt

A very long lasting guilty pleasure of mine has been Stephen King novels. Don't get me wrong: I think some of his stuff is legitimately good, but, after a few rounds of "heavier" reading, I settle back and throughly enjoy any of his many, many novels I have yet to read, poor examples or not, on an equal level.


I just can't keep up with that man, though. He writes and writes and writes and....
 
Mine are romance novels and modern thrillers. I get them from the rental bookstore and binge on them.

I also have two shelves of them at home. I don't read them all the time and can go for months without sometimes. But then I'll suddenly feel like reading them and read nothing else for several days. Definitely a guilty pleasure.
 
My guilty pleasure are Spy/action thrillers. Not the good ones of course like Barry Eisler,Robert Ludlum.

Ones like Tom Clancy and some of his books even though i dont like his style i like some of the books.

My biggest guitly pleasure are Jan Guillou and his Carl Hamilton books about the swedish James Bond.
 
Fahim said:
I'd probably say my guilty pleasure is Piers Anthony and Ayn Rand - just because how much people seem to enjoy putting those two down :p
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If reading Piers makes you guilty, I am so going to prison.. (hopefully some sort of cool futuristic prison on Mars or similar)
 
So it’s confession time, Ok, here we go Bless me father for I’ve sinned : I have read with great gusto and truly savouring each page the Sookie Stackhouse books by Charlaine Harris, but the worst part is that I can’t wait for the last one to come out (All together dead), what can I say in my defence, either that they were really great fun to read. Sin a little if you wish.
 
I've never felt guilty reading anything...

But in the spirit of this thread, I'd say Agatha Christie. I love the complex plots, even if I find her characters a bit simplistic and too often following stereotypes.
 
Lirineth said:
So it’s confession time, Ok, here we go Bless me father for I’ve sinned : I have read with great gusto and truly savouring each page the Sookie Stackhouse books by Charlaine Harris, but the worst part is that I can’t wait for the last one to come out (All together dead), what can I say in my defence, either that they were really great fun to read. Sin a little if you wish.
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Omygoodness - I love the Sookie Stackhouse books. They are so .... entertaining.... Not my usual style at all, bu t I love them nontheless.
 
manephelien said:
I've never felt guilty reading anything...

But in the spirit of this thread, I'd say Agatha Christie. I love the complex plots, even if I find her characters a bit simplistic and too often following stereotypes.
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I'm fond of the Agatha Christie stories, too. As a break from my usual diet of fantasy and historial fiction, I like a good detective novel every once in a while.
 
Jughead was once a time cop

I forgot to mention my ultimate guilty pleasure, although I don't know if it counts under the scope of the thread thesis. I, from time to time, can't help but pick up an Archie's digest from the local supermarket.

I don't know why, but I think it is largely related to a point in my childhood in which my family had moved back to Minnesota after living a few years in Minnesota. In the old MN house, I had stumbled across a pile of coverless, Archies comics with browned pages. I remember asking my mother about them, and it was fun listening to her describe her memories of the issues.
 
Who's Wee Dug said:
now the guilty part William Horwood brought out four Willows books and I bought them as well :eek: last one was in 1999.
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I have them too!!
Have you read his wolves of time? or Duncton wood?
they are one of my Pleasure reads that i go back to time and time again:)

Also Heart readers, and White Mists of Time By Margaret Weiss and Tracey Hickman:)
and i also have to say i dont feel Guilty at all about thies :)

and while im at it ill admit to loving Historical Fiction, Bernard Cornwall and the like, But not just Sharpe, some of his other books are amazing ! "Stonehenge" is always on my bedside table :)
 
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Battlefield Earth by L Ron Hubbard . This book reads like a great old fashioned golden age science fiction story . It's a fun book to read , It's got everything .:cool:
 
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My guilty pleasures as a grown up are kids' books, especially old ones. Roald Dahl is no.1 (though I rate his short stories highly and they're more for grownups anyway). I love the Moomintroll books (translations of!) and the Narnia books, Alice books, the Borrowers, the Jungle Book stories. I think I find the simplicity relaxing .. or maybe I'm just lazy!
 
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