who is your guiltiest pleasure author?

Hstrylvr · Post by **Hstrylvr** » 27 Oct 2010, 03:07

There are Sissi novels? Do tell, please! I love the rather picturesque Austrian mini-series that was filmed some time ago.

My guilty pleasure, that I totally recommend to everyone, is Susan Carroll. She does historical romance set in Renaissance France. Her novels also have an element of fantasy as the main characters are Daughters of the Earth and use magic.

I also like the Joanne Fluke mysteries. Even though her characters are sometimes so simplistic and good, the recipes are fabulous!

lolines wrote:I once read the entire collection of Sissi novels, ( you know, the Austrian empress that was actually Bavarian). I must have been in the fifth grade, and since then I confess I read a lot of romance novels ( the innocent kind, nothing featuring a Fabio on the cover), sometimes really old ones. I especially like the morality tales of a damisel in distress that defends her virtue for 355 of the 360 pages. I suppose it makes me feel like a little girl again. Those romance binges occur when I have gone through my monthly supply of new literature and go to my grandma´s and loot her back room.

Elphaba · Post by **Elphaba** » 28 Oct 2010, 09:56

Stephenie Meyer and Charlaine Harris... I guess it means that my guilty pleasure has to contain romance and vampires

Lita · Post by **Lita** » 28 Oct 2010, 12:57

Louise Rennison, lol
I started reading her books [Confessions of Georgia Nicholson] when I was about.. 14? and I thought they were SO FUNNY, I read the whole series [10 books]. I love them ;_; hahaha.

Clio_hk · Post by **Clio_hk** » 29 Oct 2010, 09:22

Charlaine Harris' 'Sookie Stackhouse series' ~ the love scenes make me blush ...

nursemom77 · Post by **nursemom77** » 02 Nov 2010, 16:45

Sandra Brown- she really knows how to go into detail and write a steamy scene. Chill Factor is sure to raise your pulse rate. I could feel the heat lifting off the page!

GotThatSwing · Post by **GotThatSwing** » 30 Nov 2010, 11:34

Mario Vargas Llosa - his books are so guilty and they're a big pleasure to read

Hazelrah · Post by **Hazelrah** » 06 Dec 2010, 21:25

Does Franklin W. Dixon count? I still have my huge Hardy Boys collection from when I was a kid, and every now and then I'll pick them up and read a few pages. Frank and Joe never get old.

-Shane

Zekes · Post by **Zekes** » 07 Dec 2010, 02:17

I would say Sidney Sheldon for his novels are all good and also Dan Brown.

Jennyfields · Post by **Jennyfields** » 03 Jan 2011, 23:23

Mine would definitely be Janet Evanovich. Or at least, used to be. 1-10 of Stephanie Plum can still make me laugh out loud. The newest ones I could take 'em or leave 'em.

StephenKingman · Post by **StephenKingman** » 04 Jan 2011, 11:34

I still have a few R.L.Stine books lying around when that urge for cheesy teenage horror comes over me.

Jennyfields · Post by **Jennyfields** » 04 Jan 2011, 11:38

StephenKingman wrote:I still have a few R.L.Stine books lying around when that urge for cheesy teenage horror comes over me.

Defintely still have mine around! And Christopher Pike is another one, for me.

StephenKingman · Post by **StephenKingman** » 04 Jan 2011, 11:40

Jennyfields wrote:
StephenKingman wrote:I still have a few R.L.Stine books lying around when that urge for cheesy teenage horror comes over me.
Defintely still have mine around! And Christopher Pike is another one, for me.

He sounds familiar did he write the Goosebumps series or was it a werewolf series?

Stine wrote a few timeless Point Horror and Fear Street books which retain their power to chill even today and even when you are 15yrs older.

Jennyfields · Post by **Jennyfields** » 04 Jan 2011, 13:11

StephenKingman wrote:
Jennyfields wrote:
StephenKingman wrote:I still have a few R.L.Stine books lying around when that urge for cheesy teenage horror comes over me.
Defintely still have mine around! And Christopher Pike is another one, for me.
He sounds familiar did he write the Goosebumps series or was it a werewolf series?
Stine wrote a few timeless Point Horror and Fear Street books which retain their power to chill even today and even when you are 15yrs older.

He wrote books similar to Goosebumps. Same horror genre. I remember one where a teenage boy was sneaking out at night to murder people with a hammer. That's definitely one that can still induce a shudder.

StephenKingman · Post by **StephenKingman** » 04 Jan 2011, 13:28

Ah i see, the name is familiar all right, I still read The Wrong Number in the Fear Street series, a few kids prank call a house on Fear Street and interrupt a murder, brilliantly cheesy even today. Then again i attribute the whole early 90s craze for silent phone calls and threatening notes (back in the days before Skype and texting!) to the Babysitter series of books by Mr. Stine. This one image sums it up perfectly