David Eddings- I have a soft spot for these, since my mother read them to us as kids. I grew up on Belgarion and Belgarath and all those other Bels.
Feist- Some of the earliest fantasy I read on my own. I own most of these, and still proudly display them.
Tad Williams Memory Sorrow and Thorn- Again, read them young, softspot.
Joseph Delaney's The Last Apprentice Series- I don't know that these are really something to be embarrassed of, other than the fact that I gobble each one up like candy when it comes out, and they're written for 12 year olds.
Barb and JC Hendee's vampire stuff, can't remember the series name. Man, they need spellcheck. I've never seen so many misspellings in a published book. And yet I read several of them before they got boring on me.
There are others, but it's late and I can't really think of them.
Feist- Some of the earliest fantasy I read on my own. I own most of these, and still proudly display them.
Tad Williams Memory Sorrow and Thorn- Again, read them young, softspot.
Joseph Delaney's The Last Apprentice Series- I don't know that these are really something to be embarrassed of, other than the fact that I gobble each one up like candy when it comes out, and they're written for 12 year olds.
Barb and JC Hendee's vampire stuff, can't remember the series name. Man, they need spellcheck. I've never seen so many misspellings in a published book. And yet I read several of them before they got boring on me.
There are others, but it's late and I can't really think of them.
I love Eddings and Feist. I'm re-reading all of Eddings right now, actually.
I used to get embarrassed if I thought I was reading something 'weird,' like kids' books as an adult. Now I don't really care. I'm 25 and I still occassionally pick up the Boxcar Children or Nancy Drew or something like it.
Granted, there are some books I just don't talk about with some people. I don't talk to my parents about Harry Potter because they bought into the 'Harry Potter is evil' thing and it's just easier to not mention it. But I'm not really embarrassed if somebody knows I read them. Heck, they're on a bookcase in the middle of my living room.
I guess the closest I get to embarrassed about books is if I read something out of character. I'm a geek, married to another geek, and I would probably be a little embarrassed to be caught reading a Harlequin romance. But I don't read Harlequin romances so it's really not an issue. And it's not necessarily that they're bad (and I really have no idea); they're just not me.
So ...what books are you embarrassed to say you liked?
- 06/09/2009 05:55:48 AM
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I dunno about "embarrassed," really...
- 06/09/2009 06:30:14 AM
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I love MtG novels. I have 2 shelves packed with 'em, after donating at least half to a local library *NM*
- 07/09/2009 09:26:10 PM
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Uh, I guess...
- 06/09/2009 06:52:06 AM
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Uh, that may be an over-share.
I appreciate your honesty though! *NM*
- 06/09/2009 04:20:52 PM
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I appreciate your honesty though! *NM*
- 06/09/2009 04:20:52 PM
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... were you on wotmania?
- 06/09/2009 06:47:56 PM
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- 06/09/2009 06:47:56 PM
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Re: ... were you on wotmania?
- 07/09/2009 05:30:51 PM
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- 07/09/2009 05:30:51 PM
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I'm not embarassed to like any books....
- 06/09/2009 07:02:07 AM
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Ditto
- 06/09/2009 09:28:42 AM
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Ooh.
- 06/09/2009 10:25:03 PM
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Oh lordy
- 06/09/2009 10:38:08 PM
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It's okay, you can just call me Craig.
- 06/09/2009 10:54:11 PM
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Oh Craigy
- 06/09/2009 11:01:05 PM
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Er.
- 07/09/2009 12:10:21 AM
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Cheers
- 07/09/2009 08:15:59 AM
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No prob.
- 07/09/2009 06:35:57 PM
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I'm easy to please
- 07/09/2009 11:21:29 PM
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I have quite the list
- 06/09/2009 07:37:01 AM
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Re: I have quite the list
- 07/09/2009 01:59:44 AM
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you are embarrased about reading Tad Williams?? (plus my choices)
- 23/09/2009 08:07:18 PM
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Ooh...I'm going to scare people here
- 06/09/2009 06:03:49 PM
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Yeah, I like the DB books too and am not the least bit ashamed of it. *NM*
- 06/09/2009 07:55:31 PM
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I have a ridiculous soft-spot for Tamora Pierce. *NM*
- 06/09/2009 11:23:34 PM
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I covered up Kushiel's Dart in school, but that was just to avoid distractions/distracting others.
- 07/09/2009 06:08:20 AM
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It's my eyeballs, and I'll read what I want to, read what I want to ...
- 07/09/2009 09:44:54 PM
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Re: It's my eyeballs, and I'll read what I want to, read what I want to ...
- 23/09/2009 08:19:06 PM
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I'm pretty sure "Сталин 's" isn't how you form the genitive in Russian. *NM*
- 08/09/2009 01:49:06 AM
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I don't know anyone else...
- 08/09/2009 02:13:32 AM
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I didn't read those, but I loved the Hardy Boys when I was young.
- 08/09/2009 05:38:33 AM
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Re: I didn't read those, but I loved the Hardy Boys when I was young.
- 08/09/2009 07:53:33 AM
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Re: I didn't read those, but I loved the Hardy Boys when I was young.
- 09/09/2009 01:28:20 AM
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Wow. I'd completely forgotten about The Three Investigators. Good call. *NM*
- 09/09/2009 05:36:48 AM
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Big ups for the Hardy Boys. *NM*
- 08/09/2009 04:20:22 PM
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Likewise. First non-dinosaur books I got into.
- 08/09/2009 06:41:00 PM
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er... um. Maybe Dan Brown
- 08/09/2009 05:47:42 AM
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Which Eco's have you tried? *NM*
- 08/09/2009 07:42:44 AM
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Same as you, Anne of Green Gables.
- 08/09/2009 06:10:49 AM
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I liked the tv mini-series, too.
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- 08/09/2009 05:05:25 PM
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- 08/09/2009 05:05:25 PM
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Do you know how I know you're gay? You like freaking Anne of Green Gables!
- 09/09/2009 04:14:25 AM
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Laurel K. Hamilton. Mostly the latter half of the Anita Blake series and The Merry Gentrys
- 08/09/2009 08:11:32 PM
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Re: Laurel K. Hamilton. Mostly the latter half of the Anita Blake series and The Merry Gentrys
- 08/09/2009 08:17:13 PM
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William Forstchen's The Lost Regiment series *NM*
- 11/09/2009 08:28:48 PM
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Are you the one who recommended the Ice trilogy to me? *NM*
- 11/09/2009 09:33:57 PM
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I am not sure what the Ice triology is so I guess not *NM*
- 11/09/2009 09:55:33 PM
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Hmm, peculiar. I don't hear many people talk about Forstchen. *NM*
- 12/09/2009 07:30:48 AM
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Much love for you always, darling. *NM*
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