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Interests => Hobbies => The Book Club => Topic started by: bijou on June 15, 2010, 03:18:09 PM
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When you want a less challenging read, maybe a vacation or a long trip or just need some downtime what books/authors are your guilty pleasures?
I like to read True Crime books. :-)
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Ghost, Kildar, Choosers of the Slain and Unto the Breach by John Ringo.
On edit: I also enjoy Ice Station, Temple and Area 7 by Matthew Reilly.
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I read for pure pleasure most of the time.
Just finished John Sanford's Storm Prey last night and started Brad Thor's The Apostle. I'm caught up on reports for tonight, and I'm going to be reading it! :-)
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I read for pure pleasure most of the time.
Just finished John Sanford's Storm Prey last night and started Brad Thor's The Apostle. I'm caught up on reports for tonight, and I'm going to be reading it! :-)
For light reading, I recently started reading sci-fi/fantasy/whateveritis; and political thrillers. I just picked up 'The Apostle' too. I was trapped in B&N for three hours today-trapped I say! (http://yoursmiles.org/tsmile/read/t9504.gif)
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For light reading, I recently started reading sci-fi/fantasy/whateveritis; and political thrillers. I just picked up 'The Apostle' too. I was trapped in B&N for three hours today-trapped I say! (http://yoursmiles.org/tsmile/read/t9504.gif)
Have you started The Apostle yet?
Only difference between the president in the book and Obama is that the book one is white... :evillaugh:
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Have you started The Apostle yet?
Only difference between the president in the book and Obama is that the book one is white... :evillaugh:
Not yet, but it's on deck for later tonight.
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Have you started The Apostle yet?
Only difference between the president in the book and Obama is that the book one is white... :evillaugh:
That sounds like fun, I'll keep an eye out for it.
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For light reading, I recently started reading sci-fi/fantasy/whateveritis; and political thrillers. I just picked up 'The Apostle' too. I was trapped in B&N for three hours today-trapped I say! (http://yoursmiles.org/tsmile/read/t9504.gif)
:lmao: It's terrible when that happens.
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S.M. Stirling's Nantucket trilogy. I've read it several times and I never get tired of it.
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The Avalon series by Marion Zimmer Bradley, and just about anything from Philippa Gregory.
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I'll read Janet Evanovich, the Stephanie Plum stuff. I don't find it nearly as funny as my wife does. I must be bored...
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Enjoyed The Apostle, now reading Brad Meltzer's The Book of Fate.
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OH GOD, Stephen King. God help me, but I've read The Stand, The Shining and It so many times, I can almost recite them, verbatim.
The Stand is, by far, my favorite re-read. :-)
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The Avalon series by Marion Zimmer Bradley, and just about anything from Philippa Gregory.
Have you seen the movie, Mist of Avalon? It is not too bad actually....
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Have you seen the movie, Mist of Avalon? It is not too bad actually....
Yes I did, and it wasn't bad, stayed pretty close to the book too.
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I still read Piers Anthony's Xanth series, Anne McCaffrey's Dragons of Pern series, Brian Lumley's Necroscope series.
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I still have a few older Xanth books. I think I ran out of steam somewhere around book #13 and stopped reading them. They just got too silly.
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My guilty pleasure is Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake series. Hamilton creates a vividly detailed world where vampires and werewolves live, work and play among humankind (although not without some friction). She does a great job in describing the complex hierarchies that exist in the vampire and were-animal societies. The monsters are truly scary, and even the "good" vampires and were-creatures are capable of monstrous acts. The early books in the series were a mix of detective and horror fiction, with a healthy dollop of eroticism. The later books have tended to emphasize sex, sometimes at the expense of story (but that's just my opinion).
One problem with the series is that it tends to get a bit monotonous. The characters all have emotional hangups and never seem to get past them, so the same issues keep cropping up in book after book. Still, the books are like potato chips to me -- I can't resist them!
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The Avalon series by Marion Zimmer Bradley, and just about anything from Philippa Gregory.
Yes I have read all or most of those. Jean Plaidy does alot of history. Right now I am starting the Eugenia Price's Georgian Trilogy. About two families who live in Georgia in the civil war era
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I still read Piers Anthony's Xanth series, Anne McCaffrey's Dragons of Pern series, Brian Lumley's Necroscope series.
I love Anne McCaffery's books, and also Mercedes Lackey and Patricia Wrede.
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My guilty pleasure is Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake series. Hamilton creates a vividly detailed world where vampires and werewolves live, work and play among humankind (although not without some friction). She does a great job in describing the complex hierarchies that exist in the vampire and were-animal societies. The monsters are truly scary, and even the "good" vampires and were-creatures are capable of monstrous acts. The early books in the series were a mix of detective and horror fiction, with a healthy dollop of eroticism. The later books have tended to emphasize sex, sometimes at the expense of story (but that's just my opinion).
One problem with the series is that it tends to get a bit monotonous. The characters all have emotional hangups and never seem to get past them, so the same issues keep cropping up in book after book. Still, the books are like potato chips to me -- I can't resist them!
It's funny you mention that genre, I couldn't get into the vampire/werewolf thing. Nora Roberts(one of my fave authors) did a series involving mythical monsters(Morrigan Cross). It wasn't one of her best..
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It seems like everyone's coming out with a vampire or werewolf series, with varying degrees of success. I guess at some point the market will be saturated and the fad will cool off.
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It seems like everyone's coming out with a vampire or werewolf series, with varying degrees of success. I guess at some point the market will be saturated and the fad will cool off.
The trouble with those books is that they are so predictable
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From the perspective of "guilty pleasures", my weakness is archaeological thrillers.......I'd venture that Elizabeth Peters period pieces set in late nineteenth century Egypt and the UK are my favorites.
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My guilty pleasure is Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake series. Hamilton creates a vividly detailed world where vampires and werewolves live, work and play among humankind (although not without some friction). She does a great job in describing the complex hierarchies that exist in the vampire and were-animal societies. The monsters are truly scary, and even the "good" vampires and were-creatures are capable of monstrous acts. The early books in the series were a mix of detective and horror fiction, with a healthy dollop of eroticism. The later books have tended to emphasize sex, sometimes at the expense of story (but that's just my opinion).
One problem with the series is that it tends to get a bit monotonous. The characters all have emotional hangups and never seem to get past them, so the same issues keep cropping up in book after book. Still, the books are like potato chips to me -- I can't resist them!
I read quite a few of her books, and the earlier ones are really good, but I had to stop at some point when Anita started sleeping with all the male characters and I realized that I really didn't like any of them any more. I complete agree that the later ones are overly focused on sex and sacrifice the story. The earlier ones had a real plot, in the later ones, the plot got lost.
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I read quite a few of her books, and the earlier ones are really good, but I had to stop at some point when Anita started sleeping with all the male characters and I realized that I really didn't like any of them any more. I complete agree that the later ones are overly focused on sex and sacrifice the story. The earlier ones had a real plot, in the later ones, the plot got lost.
Very true. I don't mind a "steamy" story, but I like to see some plot too. Sometimes I think Hamilton is just indulging her own erotic fantasies in keeping this series going. When she gets the sex out of her system and settles down to telling a story, she can create a great read. For example, I thought Obsidian Butterfly was excellent. This may have something to do with the fact that the plot takes place in New Mexico, far away from Richard, Jean Claude and the whole dysfunctional crew.