On Fri, 19 Jul 2002 16:33:58 -0700, "Mario R. Delgado II" <mario at seraphworks.com> wrote: >You know, books that are just >trash but you love to read them anyway. > >I'll start things off with my latest guilty pleasure: > >Luarel K Hamilton's Anita Blake series. Possibly Hamilton - not sure I get enough pleasure yet. I haven't reread any yet. Haven't even read them all yet. But I like Anita as a character. And there is enough development of it that I'm not sure I'll feel all that guilty. Considering the various things said, most of which I agree with, Eddings. So what if they're all the same? I'm going to reread them anyway. I enjoy his blather, even as I cringe. Thorne Smith, maybe. The books celebrate a lifestyle I don't admire and am not interested in emulating (well, I guess most action stories do that, too) but they are fun reads and I reread them. Leslie Charteris' Saint. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Robert Howard. I recall a much better quality 50 years ago (who goes about replacing all those fine originals with the inferior imitations bearing the same titles, I wonder?), but I still reread them. Richard