oursin has a thread running on categories of book we avoid so I thought I'd start one on things we read as 'guilty pleasures'. I guess I define this as stuff we ;like but know is in some sense trashy or less than reputable. Maybe the sort of thing we wouldn't want to admit to our English lit teacher that we read.

Actually this isn't a big part of my reading but there are a few things that wouldn't win me points for intellectual purity. I guess the two main categories for me would be "bawdy romps"; think Flashman and Kathy Lettke, and books about military hardware. Bonking, complicated undergarments and armoured vehicles, what can I say.