Guilty Pleasures Books

[Guest]

My copy of JS&MN has a lipstick mark on the edges due to SOMEONE we both know flicking through the pages and sniffing the new paper.

[supergran71]

:blush:JS&MN - What is that please? Sorry for my ignorance

[Guest]

Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, by Susanna Clarke.

[supergran71]

Thank you

[Guest]

I believe it's on my chunky challenge list. I've had it for ages and never finished it, and it's about time I did.

 

(Not that it's a guilty pleasure book - I'd happily read it in public now the hype has died down).

[Karen1]

:blush:JS&MN - What is that please? Sorry for my ignorance

I am so glad someone asked about this, because I didn't have a clue either.

[Icecream]

I was going to say that there aren't any books I wouldn't read in public. There is only one though, and I can't even say on here what it is, but I will say I absent mindedly left it on the coffee table once and a friend noticed it. She didn't say anything though.

[Guest]

Mein Kampf?

[Nox]

Nothing, it's really nonoes buisiness what I read.

People often get touchy about certain books, but their closed mind is not my problem.

For example I have recantly read "The Satanic Bible" by Anton LaVey, it's a briliant book, the fact that some people might think it bad, probably many people on here as well, I really don't care.

[thelastwatcher33]

I know just what Prospero is saying about the whole-reading -on-the-train thing. I think its because I m always nosy about what other people are reading and what that could tell me about them and I therefore think that they are drawing some conclusion about me from what I m reading. Its probably ridiculous but anyway. Guilty pleasures,well I remember reading Riders by Jilly Cooper and trying not to be seen with it, bit of the book snob within coming out! I m proud to be a Harry Potter fan though, sadly I am a band wagon hanger-on in that regard. Didnt catch on to the whole craze until the movies came out. At least I feel bad about it though

[Kylie]

I know just what Prospero is saying about the whole-reading -on-the-train thing. I think its because I m always nosy about what other people are reading and what that could tell me about them and I therefore think that they are drawing some conclusion about me from what I m reading.

 

I feel the same. I like to have a stickybeak at what other people are reading, but I absolutely hate anyone else knowing what I'm reading (on the train anyway; I don't care at work). I always try to hide my book cover so no-one will see what I'm reading. And I don't really understand why I do it.

 

I also don't understand why I'm embarrassed to be seen reading Harry Potter on the train. Maybe it's because they're so popular or because I have the kids covers, I don't know.

 

I also don't think I'd read any books on the train that have nudie covers, such as Nana by Emile Zola and The Graduate by Charles Webb. I don't want people thinking I'm reading porn when I'm actually reading a high-brow classic or something!

[Guest]

If I went into business marketing Salman Rushdie and Kazuo Ishiguro covers for all your porn mags and erotica books, would you all buy from me?

[~V~]

I was going to say that there aren't any books I wouldn't read in public. There is only one though, and I can't even say on here what it is, but I will say I absent mindedly left it on the coffee table once and a friend noticed it. She didn't say anything though.

 

Mein Kampf?

 

I've read that. (Not in the original you understand. Ja?)

 

I was thinking maybe something more fruity than young Adolf's ramblings but you never know

[Guest]

The Secret Diary of Eva Braun?

[~Andrea~]

Slightly off topic but talking of hiding what you are reading in public, I sometimes have this awful fear that if I read a book I'm really loving in public, then someone, some random stranger possibly, will come up to me and tell me what happens in the end and ruin it. I know it's unlikely, but it's the main reason I don't like reading in public, or sometimes telling people what I am currently reading in case they say "Ah yes, great book, that's the one where so and so dies isn't it..." or something.