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I've had a lot of trouble getting reading time in now that I'm off for the summer. I don't have a regular schedule and reading often gets last priority

Can you give me a more specific example? What kinds of phrases, for instance, tip off your sensors for bad writing?

Lately, I'll start skimming books I dislike. I feel like at least I've given them a chance to get better, but without wasting too much of my time

That's interesting. I guess a next logical question would be, which books have you folks put down for any reason, and then successfully picked up reading again? I put down Kushiel's Dart for almost a year, and then finished it the summer after I started it. I suppose schoolwork got in the way.

Why did you quit on this one? I never tried Lestat, but I recently tried the Vampire Armand and couldn't get very far into it

Are there books sitting on your shelf that you started to read, but haven't finished? What books are they? Why didn't you read the whole thing? Where did you stop? Why? Do you hope to continue one day? Or are you glad to leave them to gather dust?

I'm definitely a Xena fan. I have all six seasons. However, I felt they were best in dramatic episodes. Very few of the comedic episodes ever appealed to me. The only one I can think of that I enjoyed was in the last season when they tried to set mortal Ares up as a farmer.

I would definitely agree with Serenity. It's gotten a few votes so far, but I'm not sure if it has enough to get into the Top 10.

You've never heard of Elric? The Elric Saga is considered something of a fantasy classic. Actually, your Roland just missed the top 10. If you check out the rest of the list, you'll see him at number 11

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Sorry, I don't visit the General Chat forum. And I was aiming specifically at guilty pleasures in fiction. I'm not so interested in how much ice cream or margaritas or manicures people indulge in.

No, it makes a lot of sense. I found it to be much more artistic than most science fiction. More natural as well - much more how real life looks like rather than the sanitary scifi we so often see.

I'm still trying to talk myself into reading the DaVinci code

I'm guessing they're both vampire writers?

All right, fess up. What is that book hidden under your bed? What is that tv show you watch when no one is around? What is the film you walk into with sunglasses on? What are the books, shows and movies that you are hesitant to admit to liking?

I believe that dialog is punctuated differently in a lot of European literature. At least what I've read in the original Russian and Polish doesn't often use quotation marks. Even the classics.

I didn't particularly hate Jane Eyre. It was simply not a book I could imagine reading if I hadn't been required to do so for school.

I find the best recommendations from a few of the pages I visit online.

First of its kind, in what way, specifically?

Do you seek recommendations for books from anyone in particular? Family? Friends? Favorite reviewers? Why do you trust this(these) particular person or people to give good recommendations?