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Kevin, I don't find that cover of Lady Knight to be particularly embarrassing.Maybe you meant this one? Lady Knight
Yeah! I bet he does. That is so much worse!!!!
Nancy wrote: "Kevin, I don't find that cover of Lady Knight to be particularl..."laughing...you are right, that one is much worse, but I should put it on my "to read" list! :)
I found another one...I love Deanna Raybournes booksSilent In The Graveand Silent in the Sanctuary but I purchased the new one and wish I would have torn off the cover.Silent On The Moor. I had it in my car to read during lunch and had a couple of coworkers making fun of me. I, to my utter shame, told them it was my wife's book. :)
Nice, Kevin, hide behind the wifee. lol!
She read is as well so it was only a partial literary lie. :)
Wow, I just had a flashback to elementary school. At the time I was obsessed with the Goosebumps series. When I found out that R. L. Stine was coming out with his first "adult" supernatural/horror book naturally I had to..I had to!... read it. I cannot remember how I got hold of the book but I was so pround...that is until I discovered the naughty bits. I became extremely paranoid that my mother would find it so I stuffed it under my bed or at the bottom of my closet when I was away. Every time she entered my room I would have a heart attack. ("OMG but what if she finds the naughty bits!!") I was too afraid to leave the house with it either. I couldn't finish the book because it was too stressful.I actually picked it up again last year and rediscovered its awfulness.
Dionisia wrote: "Wow, I just had a flashback to elementary school. At the time I was obsessed with the Goosebumps series. When I found out that R. L. Stine was coming out with his first "adult" supernatural/horro..."My kids have almost all of the Goosebumps books. What IS the naughty book? Don't leave us hanging! LOL
Kandice wrote: "What IS the naughty book?"Superstitious by R.L. Stine
I think my eyes almost popped out of my wee head as I realized my beloved goosebumps genius thought writing an adult novel meant adding sex scenes.
I've been going absolutely nutty these days on vampire romances. Normally, this would embarrass me. I'm still not sure I'd want some people to know I read the stuff. But yesterday, my psychiatrist told me it okay. And a few weeks ago, I found this site- it turns out there's a whole group dedicated to the stuff. It's not so bad when you find someone out there who can actually recommend books to you. So yeah, vampires, werewolves- vampires AND werewolves... they're my guilty pleasure.
OK, don't laugh at me, but as of last August, Breaking Dawn had me blushing and doing a lot of *fanning myself*I've since moved on to bigger and better things... and had to remove many people I know in real life from my friends list so that my entire family wouldn't end up being embarrassed by what I am reading these days.
Oh dear, I lost sight of this one for awhile. I thought all the detailed descriptions in American Psycho were hilarious! My favorite parts...I can understand why it still feels embarrassing though.Thanks for that first Lady Knight. I was trying to remember those to add to my collection "from childhood"
That second Lady Knight was pretty kinky...hehe
I have never been embarrassed to read vampire fiction. I am reading the rest of Twilight, but it's on my Kindle so at least no Twilight lovers will try to start "isn't Edward wonderful" conversations with me. I'm only reading it to complain about it, lol.
Fanfic is a good one. I forgot about that stuff. I used to love to read yaoi and shonenai fanfiction for all my favorite anime shows. Still enjoy that on occasion quite a bit actually.
Irene wrote: "I've been going absolutely nutty these days on vampire romances."The Sookie Stackhouse books were the gateway drug . . . I love these books (and have branched out to other random paranormal series) and have been gobbling them up like candy (Mercy Thompson series, Karen Marie Moning's Fever series, just ordered some Anita Blake and the Succubus Blue series). They are a great, fun diversion -- not really embarrassed about them, though. I read for fun and only for fun, so I figure I should be able to read whatever I want.
I was reading Beaches in the 6th grade. I left it in math class, and my math teacher had given it to my English teacher to give back to whoever it belonged to (she didn't know whose it was). My English teacher held it up in front of the class and I had to go up and get it. That was the first time I was ever embarrassed about what I was reading.
M wrote: "Irene wrote: "I've been going absolutely nutty these days on vampire romances."The Sookie Stackhouse books were the gateway drug . . . I love these books (and have branched out to other random ..."
I would also recommend the Jim Butcher "Dresden Files" series. The first is
Storm Front
I (for some sick reason) like reading about serial killers. I got some strange looks in the waiting rrom of my son's doctor when I read The A-Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers. Another one would be Geisha by Liza Dalby. I wasn't embarassed about the book or the cover (it's a very good book) but it's HUGE! I didn't realize how weird it looked until I was in public.
I can't think of an embarrassing book, but I can think of an embarrassing experience. I was in Jr. High and reading Love Story. My Great Grandmother saw what I was reading and, in front of the entire family went on a rant about the "smutty" book. She was yelling, waving her arms around and right there in front of everyone she asked me if I wanted to be a slut, too. Then she tore the book up.
Luckily, it seems your great grandmother hasn't curbed your reading much has she?I'd go off on a tirade about her- it probably wasn't right for her to tear your book and all...
but she is your Great grandmother. Age deserves some respect.
Another copy of Love Story can always be gotten- I didn't think it was all that great anyway.
Naw, not all that great and it was what... 35 years ago. I've let it go, honestly. But it's the only thing I could think of. ALTHOUGH, since reading so much PNR I did have to remove some of my friends from my GoodReads friends because they were shocked at what I was reading.And, this was the same Great Grandmother whom, after refusing to go to my JR HI graduation, threw yet another fit in the middle of a Shakey's Pizza place (where we went for my graduations celebratory dinner) because of the song Superstar playing on the juke box. She, again, started waving her arms in the air yelling "baby, baby, baby.." *sigh*
oooh Shakey's Pizza- I don't think they have those anymore. At least not in Texas that's for sure. Chuck E Cheese lives on though.
I live in such a hick town. We don't have Chuck E. Cheese (or much of anything else for kids) but by God, we've got a Hooters! Okay. Done with the rant.
*sigh* Oh, Shakey's Pizza. That just made me tear up a little. Such happy childhood memories there!I heard a rumor that there was still one in like Appleton, WI or someplace, but I was also under the impression that they had all disappeared.
Nancy wrote: "Jane wrote: "Is that a basketball in his britches?"A little squishy for a basketball, do you think?"
To me, it looks like its hard and moving quite fast!
I have a simple yet very expensive solution for all of you who are ashamed of the covers of your books.Amazon Kindle
I love it! And nobody ever knows what your reading.
And actually the Kindle turned out to be a very good investments for me. It runs about $350 I think. I bought it when it first came out about 1 year and a half ago and I've already saved about $175 on books. Sure Amazon doesn't offer all books right now but it is growing at an alarming rate and alot of authors or publishers do promotions and you can get the books for free.
IUHoosier wrote: "What I read doesn't usually embarrass me, its the cover art that embarrasses me! Why, oh why, do we have to have half naked men and women galloping across the covers of our books? I'm not going t..."Those covers are exactly why they make those cute book carriers/book covers - : )
Fiona wrote: "Or there's hide-a-book covers. Someone posted a topic about them somewhere. Maybe you could invest in one of those?And that cover is just hilarious! I want to read that now!
I don't think, other..."
Oh, I just posted a similar comment- I was reading the thread from the bottom up! I actually have one, very cute with a cat on the front and a little carrier handle. No cover could embarrass me - LOL!
My book club read The Little Birds - a "classic" book of erotica short stories by Anais Nin. When we had our meeting to discuss the stories, we were like "um, ok ..... " . Pretty funny.
For those of us who knit, it's a good excuse to knit bookcovers! (Come to think of it, could probably knit a cover for a Kindle. Does a Kindle need a cover?)
Susanna wrote: "For those of us who knit, it's a good excuse to knit bookcovers! (Come to think of it, could probably knit a cover for a Kindle. Does a Kindle need a cover?)"Its best to have a cover for a Kindle but I think you'd want something a bit more heavy duty than yarn.
Perhaps a superbulky weight...
Susanna wrote: "Perhaps a superbulky weight..."Superbulky would be nice, just make sure its really soft material. Wouldn't want to scratch the screen.
Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan Most of the book takes place in a few hours and is about a newly married couple contemplating and the unsuccessfully making love. A suberbly written book that I gave to my sister to read. She had too many books to read so she passed on to my Mom. I c an't believe it but I was embarrassed!! at 49 years old... must be that Pennsylvania /Dutch background
Rowena wrote: "Nancy wrote: "Jane wrote: "Is that a basketball in his britches?"A little squishy for a basketball, do you think?"
To me, it looks like its hard and moving quite fast!
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Oh, my gosh! You almost made me spit my pop at my screen!
Right now, I'm a slave to the BBC Big Reads Top 100. I have made it a mission to read every single one of these novels, and I am doing okay at the moment. A trial awaits me, however. At some point - somewhere down the line - I am going to have to walk in the library and pick up Bridget Jones's Diary, and somehow keep my masculinity intact.
Hee!Do you have a bookcover?
Snort.
haha James! Just check something else out with it and keep it on top :P Preferably a hunting manual of course.
Like Allison said- place something manly on top and then you can just say you're picking up a few things for your .
There isn't any books I'm really ashamed of, or embarrassed about reading. But, I love the book series His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman and even though they are some of my most favorite books I worry about telling people I like them because I've had so many people tell me the books are evil, or I'm evil.I really can't talk about the books with anyone because the same thing always happens. So, I'm not exactly embarrassed, it's just I don't want people arguing with me, or telling me that I'm evil.
I really enjoyed His Dark Materials when I read it last summer.
Ok, this isn't about an embarrassing book, its about an embarrassing reading experience.When I was growing up, my father had a shower every day but a long bath on Sunday's. After his bath, all manne of dirty books would sit, drying out, in the airing cupboard for a week. One Sunday morning my father couldn't find Lady Chatterley's Lover and was stomping around the house. I used to take the books and read them and replace them by Sunday and I had forgotten to replace it. My father did come into my room and find it. I said I must have taken it by accident with a pile of my clothes. I think both of us knew the truth though!
Well, I resisted Harlequins for years but finally read my first when they gave away several free earlier this year. What can I say? I was hooked. They are fast reads and some of them are really, really good. Others, I'll read like 2-3 chapters and quit. Just not worth it. But those covers and worse, the titles. The horrors>>> This would be why I love the fact that my library has self checkout.
Right now I'm reading the novelization of the Star Trek movie. I normally do not read novelizations of movies, but I was curious. I have it hidden under the couch and only read it when nobody is home. Guess that means I'm a trekker now.
Another embarrassing situation. A few years ago I worked at a library and needed to check out some books on sex. I was so glad we had a self checkout because I did not want my co-workers to know what I was reading!
Those Harlequin titles are a riot - especially the Presents! The Greek Billionaire's Secret Virgin Secretary's Hidden Baby.
I read the Gossip Girl novels--I can't help it, I saw one I was curious, and now they are my brain candy. I will probably read the spinoff series!
Eva wrote: "Right now I'm reading the novelization of the Star Trek movie. I normally do not read novelizations of movies, but I was curious. I have it hidden under the couch and only read it when nobody is ..."Star Trek books were my guilty pleasure for years! They're sci-fi, but take about as much thought to enjoy as Harlequins do. A newone came out about every six weeks, and I would snatch them up and read them in about a day. They are so entertaining! Don't feel alone:)
This might seem a little weird but I hate being seen looking at strategy guides for video games. I hate admitting I need help! But some of them have very interesting backgrounds on the games and I'm a horrible completist at games so I NEED to find everything in a game before I can move on.
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That´s embarrassing lol