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someone started a thread awhile ago about music that we're embarrassed to admit that we own. well, there are a few books in my collection that i kind of push to the back so that people don't see them as easily as the others. how about you?

for me, the dragonrider series by anne mcaffry is one of them. i absolutely loved them in middle school, and a couple of years ago, i had the extra money, so i bought the first four or five in hardback to feed my nostalgia urge. sitting down and rereading them, i saw that her work is pretty generic and trite...but i love the stories just the same.

so...share.

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I actually don't mind those. Other guilty pleasures tend to be children's novels -- the Redwall series, a few Gordan Korman novels, things I can slam through in a hurry and enjoy the hell out of.

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howard stern - private parts

actually, i'm not really embarrassed about owning this one, but i've been made to feel so by a couple of previous girlfriends.
i've always liked stern. though i'm a bit disappointed that he finally broke up with his wife.

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George Will

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Forgotten Realms books. Some are much better than others of couse (Salvatore is a wonderful writer), but they're all just good fun and I absolutely inhale them.

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Morgana I don't think that you should ever hide your Anne McCaffery novels. As a child of ten I read all the "Tros of Samothrace" novels by Talbot Mundy and the Richard Halliburton
books and the Osa and Martin Johnson African adventure books and I still have them and they occupy a prominent place on my bookshelves and periodically re-read every one of them every four or five years. Okay so they are not great literature, but they taught me a lot about history and geography and they were fun to read Read 'em again , Morgana.

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Speaking My Mind - Ronald Reagan A collection of speeches that I picked up for free somewhere. It is a proof copy with editing notes in it. It has some of his early speeches from when he an actor, and other periods in his career. He points out that its not a book on policy but just to show where he came from, and the things he cared about. Some of the speeches are really good, but its hard to read a book of speeches, I didn't get all the way through it.

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Prydain Chronicles by Lloyd Alexander. (You know, Black Cauldron, etc.)

Great stories, interesting style. Surprised me when I was looking for the books (my hardcover copy had gotten stolen) to find that they were under the "young adult" section. :disgust:

Also, not that I'm especially embarrassed or anything, but I regularly go up to Borders, and sit down and read manga. It's great.

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Rainbow Six by Tom Clancy
Without Remorse by Tom Clancy
Bravo Two Zero by Andy Mcnab
Immediate Action by Andy Mcnab
CQB by Mike Curtis


....Oh god, someone save me.

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