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what is your secret /lit/ shame

inb4 twilight

>> No.1271578

furry porn stories

>> No.1271579

Mark Goddamned Motherfucking Twain

>> No.1271581

I dunno. Michael Chrichton?

>> No.1271583

>>1271579
how is one of the greatest american authors a secret shame?

>> No.1271587

>>1271578

>furry porn stories

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The Halo novels.

>> No.1271591

>>1271587
Hey, it's a secret shame thread. It's not my fault the other guys are too prude to either read anything worse than Crichton or admit it.

>> No.1271594

>>1271591

I wasn't making a big deal out of it, anyway. Just mildly surprised that came out of /lit/.

>> No.1271596

Oprah's big fat goddamn Book Club. I don't follow it religiously or whatever, but every time I do indulge in sync with her, I feel so fucking populist and ashamed. But then the feeling passes pretty quickly because she, for everything else wrong with who she is, is getting millions of people who otherwise wouldn't ever crack open a book to read some (mostly great) books and actually get excited about them. Nothing wrong with getting into something good when it's popular. Simple curiosity.

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>>1271596
I remember my teacher was a huge Oprah book clubber. She picked out a book called Cane River for us to read. I looked at the cover, read the back, and groaned.
>Lalita Tademy's epic novel is based on the lives of four generations of African American women and is the result of years of exhaustive research and an obsessive odyssey to uncover her family's past.
Exactly the sort of thing that sounds horrendously boring to me.

I ended up loving it. It's on that part of my bookshelf that I reserve for books I read every few months. I'll have to - cautiously - check out some more from ole Oprah.

My secret pleasure is V.C. Andrews. So. Much. Drama. Rape, incest, abuse, screaming matches, horrid pranks, vile characters, beautiful women, they've got it all. It's like the Lifetime Movie channel x100.

>> No.1271602

Harry Potter

>> No.1271604

Do the Bond novels count? Because I fucking love those, especially Moonraker.

>> No.1271606

>>1271599

I know the feeling. She set me on Jeffrey Eugenides and Cormac McCarthy binges, and there's no shame in that.

inb4 hipster zerg rush
captcha: common extreasy hehe

>> No.1271619

My only shames are about reading:

1. ADHD, so I read maybe a few per year if I'm lucky
1b. I haven't read 3/4 of my books, or more.
2. I like most of the books I read, though I have hated a few (usually the ones from school)

>> No.1271620

Freud, Lacan, Zizek, and other post-modern favorites.

>> No.1271642

William Empson

>> No.1271651

>>1271602
This. I know they're poorly written, I just really enjoy reading them.

>> No.1271657

WoW novels.

>> No.1271660

I have two "Doom" novels

>> No.1271661

>>1271651

Poorly written? How do you figure?

Maybe the Harry Potter series isn't too rich in literary-intellectual masturbation fodder, but Rowling is an excellent storyteller.

>> No.1271667

Forgotten Realms books

>> No.1271685

I'm currently halfway through The Brothers Karamazov but I haven't read it in a week because I've been reading the Horus Heresy series (Warhammer 40K) instead.

>> No.1271686

>>1271661
This. And they aren't really that badly written for YA books.

>> No.1271697

I read a kid's version of the illiad and odyssee, I didn't even realize it.

>> No.1271712

Meg Cabot. Yep, The Princess Diaries, et al. Something about her writing makes me need it.

I'm sorry, it's just that she did a series about a Buffy-esque character who fell in love with a cowboy ghost. I just could not pass that up.

I used to buy them and hide them so no one would know I was reading them.

>> No.1271716

I read a Dungeon's and Dragons book when i was younger and enjoyed it thoroughly.

>> No.1271744

The Zombie Survival Guide and WW Z.

Loved 'em.

>> No.1271750

I would say politically I'm center-left.
That being said; I loved Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead. Mainly The Fountainhead

I've gathered no shame for this over the years.

>> No.1271751

My reading is divided between great literature, mind-expanding nonfiction, and Dungeons & Dragons...rulebooks...even though I don't play..

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>>1271697
Oh shit! I did the exact same thing, although I was under the age of twelve. I was so fucking proud I had read them and everybody was really impressed.

Then grammar school started. Painful realizations soon followed.

>> No.1271773

>>1271750
Same here. I love it for the characterization, and don't look into the ideology at all. I know I'm missing a large portion of the book by doing that, but as long as I still enjoy it, I don't care.

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i got hard reading crash

captcha: carlton awfuntly

>> No.1271790

Stephen King

>> No.1271793

>>1271606
Mmmm Jeffrey Eugenides. I've read The Virgin Suicides and got halfway through Middlesex before it was due again at the library. It got really slow and hard to read, but I plan on picking it up again.

>> No.1271794

>>1271685
HERESY!

I'd say mine is that about half of the books I've read are sci-fi but I'm not really ashamed of it

>> No.1271854

>>1271773
Rand's prose can be a bit wooden at times, but the plot and characterization are interesting enough to keep you reading, at least in The Fountainhead; no matter who you are, however, one must stay away from the philosophical underpinnings. Man, what was she thinking? Short answer: very little.

>> No.1271863

>>1271577
The halo book The fall of Reach.
I ate that shit up.

>> No.1273738

Secret shame? I will confess if asked, but will not volunteer, that I read Laurell Hamilton novels. Laurell Hamilton used to be an awesome local writer (St. Louis MO) who wrote sort of hard-boiled paranormal detective stories, the Anita Blake novels (sounds odd, but I really liked the first 5 or so...) Then she got on this weird metaphysical orgy kick, so now her Anita Blake books usually suck. I have, however bought 3 of the later books at thrift stores because they are under $1, and she may have come to her senses. Then I read them, and I get upset, at her and at me. I also read one of her Meredith Gentry novels, but those apparently always strongly featured metaphysical orgies, and I don't have any desire to ever read another one of those again.

>> No.1273763

"Quirk Classics"

>> No.1273775

>>1271750
I tried to read Atlas Shrugged like that, but really lost interest at that like 70 page tirade Galt goes on.

My current secret shame is the "Emberverse" books.

>> No.1273787

i like dan brown's stuff, its written horribly and the theories presented are sewn together loosely but they made me feel apart of them when i read them

>> No.1273794

I enjoyed the Catcher in the Rye, Infinite Jest, Atlas Shrugged, and a slew of other books /lit/ despises.

Also I like the Da Vinci Code, Angels and Demons, and read all 7 Harry Potter books. Lately I've been reading some of the most overwrought Romantic/Victorian poetry. I enjoy that too.