Guilty Pleasures.

[TransformersFan]

What are some of the trashiest novels you've read that you actually enjoyed?

For me, Ive read the novelization of the first Resident Evil game, and I read the Independence Day movie novel. Shame.

You?

[The Zapper]

I have to admit that I too enjoyed the first Resident Evil novel. I don't know, I just found it cool how it tied in a lot of the game.

[Nstar83]

Any Anita Blake Novel from OBsidian Butterfly an on ward in the series.I don't find a character having sex every five minutes with another supporting cast member a plot at all.The books have become erotica for under sexed women.A plot device that makes the main character in a supernatural setting need to sleep around is my definition of Trashy.Horror/romance novels what ever sub genre can be well written an still make money for thier authors with alot less smut an more of a detailed plot an character development

[The Zapper]

I used to love the Anita Blake books. I got friends hooked on them, and then they turn into utter garbage At least she hadn't ruined Edward by the time I stopped reading. (ok, she wussed him up a little, but at least he wasn't banging anything that moved)

[Arvandor]

Read the actual post, people.

Trashy books you actually enjoyed.


For me, I guess it's the Forgotten Realms books. Cliched and shallow, but I love 'em nonetheless.

[Julusnc]

I have enjoyed the Mack Bolan series.The series is made up of over 200+ paperbacks and 20+ trade paperbacks so far.The series is good all American war fun....

I too was a Laurell K Hamilton fan but her books are now S& M books.

[Nstar83]

I was on topic they were trashy but i will go into detail an say that the last one in the series i got a hold of "Micah" focused more on plot then sex, granted it was a 200 pg mini novel but as of late only one sex scene in that many pages is diffenetly a reduction as compared to most books.I still enjoy the concept an I am givnig the next book a chance to keep me as a reader if the current trend continues

[Athena Bast]

Kinley MacGregor/Sherrilyn Kenyon books.

Wheeeeeeee

And Diana Palmer cowboy stories.

[Buzz Dixon]

The Destroyer series (i.e. Remo Williams). Hilarious send-ups of the macho action genre.

[sun tzu]

Fanfictions.
About Care Bears.
Following the general plot lines of some of the Dragon Ball arcs.
That I co-wrote.

[TransformersFan]

on the topic of fanfiction (which may warrant it's own thread),I've read a few Transformers fanfiction. Some good, alot bad.

I really enjoyed the first 6 Carrier series novels by Keith Douglass. Im a sucker for Naval warfare novels, and this series was all that I wanted. Theyre a little dated now, what with no active Soviet carrier battle group, but nonetheless, alot of fun to read.

[Greg Hatcher]

After researching the subject for the last couple of weeks I've re-awakened my love for pulp fiction. This has been an on-and-off thing for me for the last thirty years, ever since the Doc Savage reprints from Bantam were all over the spinner racks. Lately I've discovered several cool new reprint series from this site -- not only the ongoing anthology reprint book High Adventure, but also new reprint series of Doc Savage and the Shadow, with introductions by Anthony Tollin and Will Murray. I also have a couple of new Norvell Page Spider reprints coming from Amazon, and I just finished two of the original Lone Ranger novels Gaylord DuBois ghosted for Fran Striker. And I just picked up a bunch of stuff I'd read ABOUT but never actually got to READ before, like some of the Wu Fang stories and a collection of Johnston McCulley's original Zorro stories in facsimile pulp editions. None of this stuff is really within shouting distance of lit'ry merit. But that's the nightstand for the next few weeks. I do it in binges.

[Gordon Smith]

The Destroyer series (i.e. Remo Williams). Hilarious send-ups of the macho action genre.

Well, I don't actually feel guilty reading them. Objectively speaking, I know the literary value of these books is slight at best, but I am hopelessly addicted to them and have been for 35 years.

[Generic Eric]

The Piers Anthony Zanth books, Aliens novelizations of the first 3 comic book mini series and a few Werewolf The Apocalypse novels. Interview With a Vampire, The Vampire Lestat and the Queen Of The Damned. Yeah I read a few bad ones in my teenage years.

[i_mmmchocolate]

Cheesy romance novels taking place in medieval times.