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Favourite Trashy Novel?

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  • 17-12-2007 7:57pm
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    Lands Leaving
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    Because we can't be intellectuals all the time!

    What do you read as a guilty pleasure? Marian Keyes? James Patterson? ...or even.... Cecilia Ahern?

    Go on, admit it, you'll feel better!

    I like a bit of Michael Crichton occasionally, stems from a childhood obsession with books and dinosaurs, read Jurassic Park when I was about 7.

    And I'm entirely willing to read Stephen King, I mean the books are all identical (excluding the wonderful dark tower series) but the man can write compellingly


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    Red Hand
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    Stephen King-although many of his short stories are definately not pulpy trash.

    Dean Koontz and Micheal Layman for Horror, and I went through a phase of Wilbur Smith when I was in my teens.


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    humbert
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    I enjoyed the two Dan Brown books I read, "Angels and Demons" and "The Da Vinci Code".


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    BurnsCarpenter
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    Really enjoyed The Da Vinci Code (:o), also Stephen King.
    Rereading The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett at the moment. Trash-tastic.


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    Solarball10
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    Am completely addicted to Marian Keyes - her books are hilarious!! "Sushi for Beginners" is probably my favourite. Love Sarah Webb's books as well, "Three times a lady" is fab!


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    Dades
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    Without a doubt - Clive Cussler!

    I'm under no illusion as to how predicable, repetitive, and cheesy they are but I just love reading them when I'm need in lowbrow entertainment. Besides, there's a lot of interesting stuff about seafaring, when Pitt's not off scoring the same red-haired green-eyed minx that turns up in every book.


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    buck65
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    Martin Amis - Yellow Dog
    unadulterated nonsense like most of Amis' work , still love the guy.


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    Mrs. MacGyver
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    I like to indulge in Sue Townsend novels!


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    Otis Driftwood
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    Shaun Hutson-pure trashy and EXTREMLY graphic and nasty horrors.

    Love em.


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    Dizzyblonde
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    All of Jilly Cooper's novels - pure escapism.


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