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Anonymous Mon Nov 22 04:30:23 2010 No.1301621 [Reply] [Original]

ITT: Your guilty book pleasures

I'm partial to 'trash', especially if it's interesting trash and has ties to world history.

I have fucking devoured everything written by Harry Turtledove even though it's "WAR GUNS BOOM SEX NIGGERS FUCK SHIT".

Also, to a lesser extent, David Weber, but the way he writes about ship combat is actually intelligent, so that might be a pass. Also, 'it's like I'm REALLY reading the French Revolution'

Ralph Wiggum !!RbKRCS+NEzU Mon Nov 22 05:42:23 2010 No.1301723

Matthew Reilly. I was recently re-reading his first novel 'Contest' and goddamn the writing is subpar. Regardless, it is good. His books are the closest thing I've encountered to a military government conspiracy fueled action film that isn't a military government conspiracy fueled action film

Anonymous Mon Nov 22 05:46:23 2010 No.1301726

are you me OP?
you should check out Red Inferno if you havent, its about at the end of ww2, just one small decision change in history made by truman by sending a small division into berlin to make stalin good on his word forces stalin to do all out war on the allies, the left overs of the wehrmacht side with the allies obviously.

Anonymous Mon Nov 22 06:06:23 2010 No.1301755

Jim Butcher. I don't even know why, I like a lot of the fantasy I've read, and his books are like Krispy Kreme donuts to me (easy to eat, gone to quickly, and make me throw up when I eat too many, but they're so fucking tasty), but I find myself trying to justify my liking them to even ridiculously casual neckbeard readers. I guess I'm just a hipster. This is your fucking fault though /lit/.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 22 06:15:23 2010 No.1301763 >>1301723 Fuck yeah Matthew Reilly. I know, there's just something about it which makes you want to read. >>1301726 Yeah? Cheers bro, I'll give it a look, sounds interesting

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 22 06:26:23 2010 No.1301775 >>1301755 AGREED I mad that elaine is gone but w/e im on book 5

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>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 22 07:51:23 2010 No.1301892 Timothy Zahn, especially his books in Star Wars universe.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 22 07:52:23 2010 No.1301895 >>1301892 Yeah, I agree with that. DAT THRAWN

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 22 07:56:23 2010 No.1301901 Warhammer 40k novels.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 22 08:01:23 2010 No.1301910 >>1301901 I found the Halo novels to be pretty good. Considering

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 22 08:03:23 2010 No.1301911 Horror books by Graham Masterton.

>>	Arcueid Brunestud !ARCIkc4cG6 Mon Nov 22 08:04:23 2010 No.1301913 File: 25 KB, 420x685, 471-4.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] This shit is crazy!

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 22 08:05:23 2010 No.1301916 jonathan safran foer

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 22 08:09:23 2010 No.1301928 Babylon- Viktor Pelevnin We the living- A___ R____ The future of an illusion- Sigmund Freud

Anonymous Mon Nov 22 08:33:23 2010 No.1301949

That term really always annoyed me, because I believe if you truly enjoy something you shouldn't be guilty about it. Even if nobody else enjoys it, hell even if the rest of the world thinks it is complete shit you still have you're own good reasons for enjoying whatever that particular thing is. Regardless, I have a few books that I like that I wouldn't particularly boast about enjoying.

I love the entire Harry Potter series due to literally growing up with the series (reading the novels from age eight until eighteen). I know a lot of people believe the series is for children and shallow, but I believe that these people should perhaps go back and take another read. If you are a child reading the books you may find no depth in them, but going back and reading them as an adult I can find plenty of depth. Perhaps not as much as other books, but enough that I enjoy reading it as an adult.

I also enjoy the Mass Effect books written by Drew Karpyshyn. I may be a little more "guilty" about enjoying this series; it doesn't have much emotion or depth really and mostly is just fight after fight. The characters aren't terribly deep feeling and the plots are only somewhat interesting. However, I enjoy the books because I enjoy the video game series and it adds a little something to my gaming experience.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 22 09:13:23 2010 No.1302001 Probably 50s-70s sci-fi pulpy paperbacks. Sure, every adventure involves mad sex/drugs and really has no purpose, but everyone has a laser pistol; I like that.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 22 09:28:23 2010 No.1302023 >>1301892 Once you get past the lip acrobatics. Agreed with the Star Wars, although I tend to buy more from the EU than I can read.

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