'Beneath You'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
I thought of Amanda Quick, but her stuff is explicit enough that I would've felt the need to hide it from my mother at that age.
Huh.
At that age, I think I was sharing them with my mother. (As in, she was borrowing them without permission, because it is my mother, and she does that with my books, the twerp.)
They are pretty explicit, though.
Any other mother, I'd probably have hidden them from. It's just that I happen to have one who spams me with blue jokes.
Re: Discworld
Have to agree with the Jingo love. Love re-reading it now, as it parallels events in our world, though the book pre-dates them.
And this is the book, for me, that shows Vetinari has a soul. He knows the price of what he does, completely.
"We're just bought and sold, aren't we?"
"...Men marched to war. And men marched back. Think of all the glorious battles they never had to fight. But you say 'bought and sold'? Perhaps. But not, I think, unwisely spent.
Veni, Vici...Vetinari."
I love how Vimes has come to appreciate Vetinari. Vetinari's always appreciated Vimes.
I love how Vimes has come to appreciate Vetinari. Vetinari's always appreciated Vimes.
True, but in Vimes' defense, it's very hard to trust and/or appreciate someone who you can't see approaching you. Doubly hard for a copper.
Yeah, my mom gave me VC Andrews in middle school, and shared all my romance novels in high school (and still now, but I'm a little older) so I'm not a good judge of what books one would hide from parents/grandparents.
Your MOM gave you V. C. Andrews??
I mean, if could be weirder; it could be your brother giving you those books; but sheesh.
The funny part is that after Andrews died, the books written in her name didn't stop with the incest fetish. You would think it was just the author beating her personal horse, but apparently it's a whole niche market.
Anyone read Midsummer, by Marcelle Clements? I finished it recently, and I'm dying for another opinion, to reassure me that I'm not a crackhead.
The funny part is that after Andrews died, the books written in her name didn't stop with the incest fetish. You would think it was just the author beating her personal horse, but apparently it's a whole niche market.
And she died pretty early in the run. I'm pretty sure that more books have been published after her death than before it.
Amanda Quick is rather racy, although I would have read them at that age. I really liked Catherine Coulter although, again, mildly racy. She actually got less racy after the 70's/early 80's run of "ORAL SEX IS THE BEST". I mean, not that it isn't but for awile there (Midsummer Magic) it was a little scary. Also, a bit of non-consensual sex. At that age, I also remember liking Julie Garwood and Fern Michaels. I do/did have a particular liking for romances wherein the protagonists have to get married for some reason and then fall n love. In fact, if anyone has any recs...
Oh-- also non-racy... Barbara Cartland.
well, maybe gave is the wrong word. But I was never forbidden to read anything in the house, and they had these shiny covers....