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Post by Dodger Thirteen on May 31, 2011 21:09:29 GMT -5
My grandmother would never agree to such a deal, even if she is the devil. There are probably more than one. Maybe it's a regional thing. How close to Meyerville does your grandmother live? She's in Ohio and last I read/heard, Meyer was in Arizona? *shrugs* Perhaps she skipped into a Hellmouth and met the First Evil. |
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Post by onlyaworkingtitle on May 31, 2011 21:21:11 GMT -5
There are probably more than one. Maybe it's a regional thing. How close to Meyerville does your grandmother live? She's in Ohio and last I read/heard, Meyer was in Arizona? *shrugs* Perhaps she skipped into a Hellmouth and met the First Evil. I think the First would just eat her. I mean, she's just a housewife with a pen and an underactive imagination (and, most importantly, not a Slayer) -- how would she escape a Hellmouth? |
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Post by Dodger Thirteen on May 31, 2011 21:25:05 GMT -5
She's in Ohio and last I read/heard, Meyer was in Arizona? *shrugs* Perhaps she skipped into a Hellmouth and met the First Evil. I think the First would just eat her. I mean, she's just a housewife with a pen and an underactive imagination (and, most importantly, not a Slayer) -- how would she escape a Hellmouth? "If only, if only," the woodpecker sighs. |
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Post by afontofnothing on Jun 1, 2011 0:24:08 GMT -5
I read the Twilight series and quite enjoyed the books while I was reading them. But when I looked back at them, I just laughed at how utterly terrible they were. Now I know I can get published. I also read the Maximum Ride books when I was in eighth grade. I loved them at the time, but I was rereading a section of one and can't help but question my eighth-grade-self's sanity.
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Post by cyanea on Jun 1, 2011 1:03:30 GMT -5
Most books I read are "guilty pleasure books". Reading, when I'm not doing it for class, is an escape for me alongside video games. I don't watch much TV at all (some Japanese tokusatsu shows and Doctor Who is about it), so when I want to unwind after reading Chaucer or Shakespeare or Milton for class...I pick up a Star Wars or a Warhammer 40k book.
I don't see anything wrong with it. Even reading the garbage-iest novel requires some mental effort...which is more than can be said about passively watching 6+ hours of TV a day, like my parents and sister do.
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Post by sophi on Jun 1, 2011 1:43:23 GMT -5
Right now I'm working my way through the Sookie Stackhouse series (which is what HBO's True Blood was based on), and they are so completely ridiculous. One of my best friends read the first book and wisely decided not to read the rest, so I'm constantly texting her to tell her about all the weird plot twists. Also, for the record, these books are SUPER porn-y. I figured the constant sex scenes in the show were just an "it's HBO, we can be as gratuitous as we want" thing, but they're actually staying pretty true to the book. I get worried when I'm reading them on my break at work that someone is going to look over my shoulder and see what's going on.
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Post by andy on Jun 1, 2011 4:27:19 GMT -5
Most books I read are "guilty pleasure books". Reading, when I'm not doing it for class, is an escape for me alongside video games. I don't watch much TV at all (some Japanese tokusatsu shows and Doctor Who is about it), so when I want to unwind after reading Chaucer or Shakespeare or Milton for class...I pick up a Star Wars or a Warhammer 40k book. I don't see anything wrong with it. Even reading the garbage-iest novel requires some mental effort...which is more than can be said about passively watching 6+ hours of TV a day, like my parents and sister do. I read Star Wars books too! I don't know if I do it to escape from other books because I genuinely love reading the likes of Shakespeare and Milton too, they're just, well, fun - why wouldn't I read them? Though I find their wonderful geekiness to be more potentially embarrassing/awkward than their lack of literary finesse - especially since I'm a girl. |
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Post by onlyaworkingtitle on Jun 1, 2011 10:03:51 GMT -5
I ripped through Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel books last summer, and they were pretty fantastic. Much better written than I was expecting, and very complex plotlines. Muchfun.
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Post by betonblack91 on Jun 1, 2011 10:36:22 GMT -5
Right now I'm working my way through the Sookie Stackhouse series (which is what HBO's True Blood was based on), and they are so completely ridiculous. One of my best friends read the first book and wisely decided not to read the rest, so I'm constantly texting her to tell her about all the weird plot twists. Also, for the record, these books are SUPER porn-y. I figured the constant sex scenes in the show were just an "it's HBO, we can be as gratuitous as we want" thing, but they're actually staying pretty true to the book. I get worried when I'm reading them on my break at work that someone is going to look over my shoulder and see what's going on. The southern vampire mysteries series is my secret pleasure. What is a secret pleasure without a bit of sex really? In fact even though they are my secret pleasure i like the fact you can actually read into them a bit deeper.. although i will admitt the later books do start to go downhill and are just 'sexed up' due to the fact they are going to made into a TV series. Everyone complains about the SVM but they are much better than alot of other vampire books on the market (and by that i just don't mean Twilight either, try reading laurell k hamilton if you want a porn-y book). Also i love Stephen King- i guess they're not acedemic but i wouldn't say they were a guilty pleasure as i don't feel guilty about reading them but some people may think i should be! |
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Post by maxporter on Jun 1, 2011 10:54:22 GMT -5
I personally feel that guilty pleasure books are integral to sanity.
To that end: I frequently reread books that I loved when I was younger. Like the Animorphs series, the Mindwarp series, Diana Wynne Jones's books, Tamora Pierce's books. I also love trashy sci-fi.
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Post by onlyaworkingtitle on Jun 1, 2011 11:01:34 GMT -5
I personally feel that guilty pleasure books are integral to sanity. To that end: I frequently reread books that I loved when I was younger. Like the Animorphs series, the Mindwarp series, Diana Wynne Jones's books, Tamora Pierce's books. I also love trashy sci-fi. TAMORA PIERCE. I feel like I'm spending a lot of time fangirling over her lately... A sign that it's time for a reread? |
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Post by Olive on Jun 1, 2011 11:01:55 GMT -5
I personally feel that guilty pleasure books are integral to sanity. To that end: I frequently reread books that I loved when I was younger. Like the Animorphs series, the Mindwarp series, Diana Wynne Jones's books, Tamora Pierce's books. I also love trashy sci-fi. See, I keep debating about posting here, because the only thing I read that would be considered a "guilty pleasure" is the massive pile of sci-fi paperbacks. But every time I read another one and see all of the social commentary and philosophy that's there, I refuse to believe that I should feel guilty for it. Although, maybe your sci-fi is trashier than mine :-P |
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Post by onlyaworkingtitle on Jun 1, 2011 11:04:47 GMT -5
I personally feel that guilty pleasure books are integral to sanity. To that end: I frequently reread books that I loved when I was younger. Like the Animorphs series, the Mindwarp series, Diana Wynne Jones's books, Tamora Pierce's books. I also love trashy sci-fi. See, I keep debating about posting here, because the only thing I read that would be considered a "guilty pleasure" is the massive pile of sci-fi paperbacks. But every time I read another one and see all of the social commentary and philosophy that's there, I refuse to believe that I should feel guilty for it. Although, maybe your sci-fi is trashier than mine :-P See, I interpret "guilty pleasure books" to, in this context, mean "books we read for ourselves instead of for a class" or "non-canonical," that is to say, "not written by dead white men." |
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Post by embonpoint on Jun 1, 2011 13:38:14 GMT -5
I think I actually kind of consider my Favourite Book of All Time (The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets by Eva Rice) a guilty pleasure, because it's not a classic, or old, or foreign, or difficult, but just wonderful to read.
Apart from that, the Georgia Nicolson books by Louise Rennison. They're quick and easy and hilarious.
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Post by Dodger Thirteen on Jun 1, 2011 13:47:46 GMT -5
I read a lot of YA fiction, too. 13 Little Blue Envelopes is always the novel I turn to when my wanderlust starts acting up.
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