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Originally Posted by Belfaborac
This really is a very strange thread. So far I've yet to see any book mentioned which I'd be at all embarrassed to admit to having read.
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Well, it's a thread for "guilty pleasures". There are books I feel guilty about reading, but don't consider them pleasures. There are books I take pleasure in reading and feel no guilt, even though they might be considered trashy mind candy in some circles.
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Originally Posted by Belfaborac
If it's well written, it's worth reading.
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Well, that's where the when-even-I-consider-it-trashy mind candy part comes in. My guilty reading pleasures are those books I
know will be rather badly written compared to that same author's other works (which themselves are often at the shallower end of the genre pool to begin with) but I go and read and tend to like parts of anyway, spending time upon them instead of revisiting the "better" stuff.
And this is how
To Sail Beyond the Sunset ends up being my second-favourite Heinlein novel while I think I've only ever read
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress and
Stranger in a Strange Land once each.