Okay, what is your guilty pleasure in novels...

Mine are the novels of Jackie Collins, and in particular her Santangelo series



Title courtesy of Hamsterhuey
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When I was a wee kid I read Virginia Andrews' first series of books called Flowers in the Attic, a book on family secrets that go horribly, horribly wrong.

TOTAL trash, but I gobbled that shit up, all the books in that particular series. It was the only series she finished and she started another one before she passed away, but that was just a weaker version of The Dollanganger Series.

I still wish they would make a PROPER series out of it, trashy, but with good actors. But who'd touch an incest story? Not many.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w...ger_series

HamsterHuey said:

I used to read all the Virginia Andrews books, but once she died, and they became V.C.Andrews they were soooo predicticable...
formulated drivel!!!

i loved the prequel, written from the nasty grandmothers side of things...put the whole series into a new light
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oh, and

HamsterHuey said:

prb said:

I don't understand your reaction... what is to laugh? Yer not referring to 'wee', are you?

HamsterHuey said:

Anyways. I left most my trash reading behind me, to be honest. I just turned around and looked at my books and it's all GOOD books now.

HamsterHuey said:

I still have all the Virginia Andrews books i ever purchased...

im a book hoarder...

a lot are hardbacks...i should really set up an ebay account one day.

prb said:

My mom's disappeared into a shredder way back already. And actually I am anti-hoarding lately (I am one too, but I am sooooo tired of the dead space, I just selected all the books I decided I will never read again and they have to GO.

HamsterHuey said:

I really need to do that.
we had a big clean out when we moved a yr and a half ago, but i couldnt part with my books....
I literally have a closet full of boxes, coz my book cases wont take them anymore.

prb said:

That's just plain silly. I had a lot of books just for the fun of it, but if I am going to make a harsh decision on which I will read again... half of them are going.

HamsterHuey said:

i know, but i never know when i will read them (half are unread samples. Dexter was a save from one of these piles,im scared i'll miss another Dexter )
i have made a good start with the rugrats books....a pile im donating, and a pile im selling.

might tackle mine in my holidays

My wife has tons of trashy romance novels everywhere, boxes of them. I love to tease her about the titles - the funniest one in recent memory: 'Lady Pirate'

I thought this was about bands like D.R.I and Suicidal Tendencies.

JerseyKRS said:

So did I.

Well, not in that I know who in the hell those bands are, but I totally thought prb was telling us about her thrash metal obsession.

jackie collins isnt in a thrash band anymore...

abigail05 said:

Has it got like a Fabio style cover?

They always make me laugh

PunkMistress said:

nah, thrash metal does nothing for me, im more a hairmetal gal!!!

Besides, it would be posted in P:Non-Music

HamsterHuey said:

I loved the VC Andrews stuff.

I don't have guilty pleasures anymore. The closest thing was the Harry Potter books.

Vendetta1 said:

Most my guilty pleasures turn into big hits. I liked Potter before the hype. I liked green trousers before the hype.

Young adult fiction is still fun to me, though, esp if it has a fantasy element to it.

My favest series of late is Naomi Novik's Temeraire series, which is an alternate timeline series on the Napoleonic Wars, in which Europe battles it out with dragons.
It's so popular that Peter Jackson already bought the film right to it.
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HamsterHuey said:

Best covers come with the UK prints; which are shockingly beautiful.

http://www.temeraire.org/...+Ivory.jpg
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