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Reading is FUNdamental (books): Literary Shame

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    Easy enough to understand, what are you embarrassed to know about or have read in our vast collection of literature.

    I just found someone through 2 degrees of separation that has listed "Redeeming Love" as one of their favorite books. I'm crying in the laughter of pity.
    • CommentAuthorKristi
    • CommentTimeMar 11th 2009
     
    Posted By: Locke Cole117I just found someone through 2 degrees of separation that has listed "Redeeming Love" as one of their favorite books. I'm crying in the laughter of pity.

    Believe it or not, my college theater director wrote a play based on that book, and I had to work on it. It was terrible. Painfully so. Didn't help that the actors he cast were pretty bad, and we were putting on another production at the time, so all the techies had thier attention divided. Ugh, bad memories.

    Sadly, I have read some really trashy romance novels, a few by Nora Roberts. In my defense I was young and stupid, and I've since sworn off all of them.
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      CommentAuthorDram
    • CommentTimeMar 11th 2009
     
    I've read a lot of manga I'm not proud of. I own the entire Gravitation series (12 books). It's a gay/straight/tranny/mostly gay shonen-ai manga with a lot of implied male nudity. The same artist did a -cough- three book porn series as well, and a novel. I also own the novel. Look, I was young, okay?! Discuvrin' mahself.
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    In my younger days I was a fan of the V.C. Andrews collections. Ahh, soft-core incest porn. Right now I'm reading Guilty Pleasures by Laurell K. Hamilton, does that qualify as trashy?
    • CommentAuthorKristi
    • CommentTimeMar 11th 2009
     
    Posted By: Not MandatoryIn my younger days I was a fan of the V.C. Andrews collections. Ahh, soft-core incest porn. Right now I'm readingGuilty Pleasuresby Laurell K. Hamilton, does that qualify as trashy?

    I've read that too, and if there's such a thing as trashy vampire novels, that pretty much fits.
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      CommentAuthorJohn Darc
    • CommentTimeMar 11th 2009
     
    Posted By: DramI've read a lot of manga I'm not proud of. I own the entire Gravitation series (12 books). It's a gay/straight/tranny/mostly gay shonen-ai manga with a lot of implied male nudity. The same artist did a -cough- three book porn series as well, and a novel. I also own the novel. Look, I was young, okay?! Discuvrin' mahself.I want to be a cowboy again, Marcelle.


    Exactly. You were young. Now you can read quasi gay porn and not have to make excuses.
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    Posted By: Kristi
    Posted By: Not MandatoryIn my younger days I was a fan of the V.C. Andrews collections. Ahh, soft-core incest porn. Right now I'm readingGuilty Pleasuresby Laurell K. Hamilton, does that qualify as trashy?

    I've read that too, and if there's such a thing as trashy vampire novels, that pretty much fits.


    Hahaha! So I finished it, and I found it less "trashy" than the Sookie Stackhouse books (which I also love). I'll probably read more of Anita Blake's adventures. Sometimes, you just gotta read things that require very little thought to enjoy.
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    I've read pretty much all of Clive Cussler's work, which is a collection of rehashed B-Novels involving Marine Biologists who are also secret agents. Seriously, their main researcher has Navy SEAL Combat Knowledge and always saves the world with his stocky Italian Broseph. Though somebody did have their testicles shot off in one novel, that was cool for a page and a half.
    • CommentAuthorArcys
    • CommentTimeMar 12th 2009
     
    This isn't so much the book but the author. I think we all can agree that Orson Scott Card is a giant, gaping, bigoted, asshole, but damn if Enders Game isn't memorizing.
    • CommentAuthorEutychus
    • CommentTimeMar 17th 2009
     
    I'd like to preface this statement with the fact that I love classic literature, Dostoevsky being my favorite. That said... I was listening to the hijinksensue podcast once and heard mention of a star trek-x-men book... I read it back when I was in high school... and now having remembered it again... I must go wash myself
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      CommentAuthorFlanked
    • CommentTimeMar 17th 2009
     
    I think I read that Star Trek X-Men book when I was 9 or so, and I enjoyed it then. Is that so wrong? Am I not human? If you wound me, do I not bleed?
    • CommentAuthorEutychus
    • CommentTimeMar 17th 2009
     
    having read that book and cut myself because of it, yes...yes i do bleed

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