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Old 12-10-2010, 10:18 PM   #31
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Fry didn't match my idea of what Jeeves should look like, but I thought he did a fantastic job in the role, although I haven't seen but a few episodes. I wish they'd repeat the series. Hugh Laurie's Bertie was spot-on.
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Old 12-11-2010, 01:46 AM   #32
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Shoot, I'd brag to people if I'd read some of those 'guilty pleasures'. :P Mine are F/SF romances. Love me some Linnea Sinclair.
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Old 12-11-2010, 09:29 AM   #33
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This really is a very strange thread. So far I've yet to see any book mentioned which I'd be at all embarrassed to admit to having read. Apart from Twilight that is, which I wouldn't read unless threatened with a severe beating by a vicious mob of rabid Samoan wrestlers. On PCP.

I guess the most potentially embarrassing books I've read were a number of so-called "sexy westerns" (does such a "genre" still exist, I wonder...). Very badly written and not even terribly sexy. That was probably some 28-30 years ago though and I really don't think they can be held against me today. Apart from those I've not read anything I wouldn't be perfectly happy to bring up in even the most high-brow and snobbish literary circle, including such non-PC jewels as Honoré Gabriel Riqueti's (Comte de Mirabeau) "The Lifted Curtain or Laura's Education", or "Justine, or the Misfortunes of Virtue" by Donatien Alphonse François (Marquis ).

If it's well written, it's worth reading.
I read Justine years ago after purchasing it at thrift shop. De Sade was a twisted individual, but a talented writer. What I found most interesting about Justine's chance encounters with rapists and sadists was how each of these villains felt obligated to justify the dastardly deeds they perpetrated upon her with long-winded speeches about how it was morally right and part of the natural order of things that the desires of the stronger should prevail.

I'm tempted to make a political joke here, but then the thread would have to be moved!
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Old 12-11-2010, 09:43 AM   #34
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Old 12-11-2010, 10:26 AM   #35
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I love Sookie Stackhouse!! I feel guilty every time I pick up a Charlaine Harris book, though. I also like chick lit like "The Nanny Diaries" or "The Devil Wears Prada".
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Old 12-12-2010, 04:08 PM   #36
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I read tons of erotic romance,and I feel no shame!
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Old 12-13-2010, 01:42 AM   #37
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Probably Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code. I will live with the paradox that it was an appallingly-plotted, cardboard-charactered mess of religious conspiracy, and yet one that I was constantly prompted to keep reading into the early hours. I'd have to say I enjoyed it, as one might enjoy a McDonalds complete pigout. But I was not (and have not been) inspired to read anything else. One "Extra Large Value Meal" was enough, thanks.

I still recommend it to some as unmitigated tripe that one might possibly enjoy thoroughly if looking to kill time relaxedly on an OS plane trip or with something not particularly taxing while lounging around the lagoon pool of the Sheraton Laguna Nusa Dua. ~sigh~ Memories...

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Old 12-13-2010, 10:29 AM   #38
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Probably Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code. I will live with the paradox that it was an appallingly-plotted, cardboard-charactered mess of religious conspiracy, and yet one that I was constantly prompted to keep reading into the early hours. I'd have to say I enjoyed it, as one might enjoy a McDonalds complete pigout. But I was not (and have not been) inspired to read anything else. One "Extra Large Value Meal" was enough, thanks.
I read The Da Vinci Code in just about one sitting. It was dreadful, I hated it. But those stupid cliffhangers kept me reading. Kudos to Dan Brown, but I'll never be reading another of his books.
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Old 12-13-2010, 10:35 AM   #39
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Fry didn't match my idea of what Jeeves should look like, but I thought he did a fantastic job in the role, although I haven't seen but a few episodes. I wish they'd repeat the series. Hugh Laurie's Bertie was spot-on.
I have to agree, but as the episodes proceeded, I found the youngish Jeeves seemed to be more and more acceptable to the point where I hear Fry's voice in my head whenever I read a "Jeeves" book. Wodehouse is amazing though, with or without Bertie or Jeeves. I shouldn't be embarrassed to read him, and will change my ways now that I've reconsidered. I shall flaunt his books.
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Old 12-13-2010, 10:36 AM   #40
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I read The Da Vinci Code in just about one sitting. It was dreadful, I hated it. But those stupid cliffhangers kept me reading. Kudos to Dan Brown, but I'll never be reading another of his books.


I guess I'm lucky, because I just don't care about cliffhangers. I can stop reading a book (or watching a movie) at any time, if I'm not enjoying it, and never even wonder for a minute what happens next. I didn't even notice the cliffhangers in the 10 pages of the Da Vinci Code I read
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Old 12-13-2010, 02:20 PM   #41
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At the risk of ruining my"cred," I have a lot of guilty pleasure read s! Any well, written chick lit that is witty and engaging, cozies with fun characters, ya such as Hunger Games and Lois Duncan (and many more!), Dan Brown; if it's engaging and either thought-provoking or escapist, I'm on it!
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Old 12-13-2010, 02:36 PM   #42
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At the risk of ruining my"cred," I have a lot of guilty pleasure read s! Any well, written chick lit that is witty and engaging, cozies with fun characters, ya such as Hunger Games and Lois Duncan (and many more!), Dan Brown; if it's engaging and either thought-provoking or escapist, I'm on it!
! I forgot all about Lois Duncan! My 5th grade teacher gave me a copy of The Third Eye, and it was my favorite book for years. I'd like to reread it, but upon reading through the "do you reread books" thread and remembering the one book I read as an adolescent and tried to reread... I'm thinking not. I don't want to ruin my memory of it.
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Old 12-13-2010, 06:17 PM   #43
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Wodehouse is amazing though, with or without Bertie or Jeeves. I shouldn't be embarrassed to read him, and will change my ways now that I've reconsidered. I shall flaunt his books.
Flaunt you should! And perhaps you will gain some converts along the way.
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Recently read "The client" by john grisham. I had decided not to touch any of his novels after "the innocent man" but had to buy something for wife which I could read myself. I knew I was in for trouble but took the plunge anyway..think will touch his work after two or three years after this..
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Old 12-13-2010, 07:58 PM   #45
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Are the Number One Ladies' Detective Agency books "downmarket"? Should I be ashamed of liking them?
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