Whats a book you thoroughly enjoyed, but wouldn't usually admit to here? Genre slop, pop science, self help, manga? Books you only enjoyed as a child dont count.
Uniornically anything from midwit core or manchild core. Though I readily and easily admit they are just decent at best, not classics.
>>25037632To be honest I would admit to anything. I've read countless LNs and other pulp slop. Only issue is actually remembering whst I've read.
I saw anons talking about Reality Transurfing and I'm fairly ashamed to have read it in full and been affected by it since it's pretty much just self-helf slop with a mystic skin.
>>25037632I enjoyed the Horus Heresy series.
>>25037632Any so-called "visual novel".
For me it’s the Metro 2033+ books. The games are amazing also. I feel like trying the Gears of War books too because those were my favourite games growing up and now I’m 30 playing video games just doesn’t hit the same as it used to.
>>25037632i really like the Kaiji manga.in general i don't agree with the notion of guilty pleasures. if i really like a work, it means there must be something good and valuable in it. scrolling brainrot youtube sorts, on the other hand, does make me feel guilty, because there's nothing in them i actually enjoy; but for that same reason it's not a guilty pleasure, it's just a guilty addiction, a guilty waste of time.
I don't have any. I'm equally capable of enjoying Joyce, pulp 40k novels, and Japanese RPGMaker porn games. Why would you be afraid of admitting what you like on an anonymous imageboard?
I unfortunately can't get myself to stop reading shitty coming-of-age YA as some form of living vicariously through fictional characters who actually had friends and did stuff. It's embarassing but there's worse vices out there I suppose.
black company series
>>25037721do you enjoy anything in between? enjoying 'low' culture is ironically more accepted in high brow circles than enjoying 'middle' culture. its more shameful to say you like the lovely bones, sapiens, thinking fast and slow etc
>>25037722>It's embarassing but there's worse vices out there I supposethere are literally not, it's the most pathetic shit I read all week
>>25037632This but people like it here. Got me to reconsider David Hume.
The side nigga catch feelings.
>>25037760Spending time regurgitating second hand thought on an image board is worse imo
I like The First Law series quite a bit and Sally Rooney novels.
>>25037632The Hunger Games books were pretty good, minus Sunrise on the Reaping. Read all of them within a two week span while traveling on vacation
>>25037721no one mentioned afraid or fear, nice projection
>>25037632>any manga I likedbut that's /a/ discussion.So I guess>The Incest DiaryThere's one retard that spams this book, but i'm not him. I found it on the Archive years back and read it for its title, and then masturbated like 3 or 4 times at the scenes before forgetting about that piece of garbage.>any children's book I read as an adult because the cover art had a cute little girlSelf-explanatory.>Adventure slop like Salgari.
I love 'em. I can't help it.
A Secret History. It’s just so cosy. I read it every time I’m feeling down. She is quite a good writer, though, so I don’t feel terrible about it.
>>25037632>Whats a book you thoroughly enjoyed, but wouldn't usually admit to here? I make sure to be vocal about the slop I enjoy because it's important to remind the pseuds on /lit/ that I actually read and they don't.
Star Wars prequel novels for sure, especially the Darth Plagueis book.
>>25040202is it something like dan brown?
>>25037760i don't think it's that pathetic i think you are exaggerating
Dan Brown, some of Ken Follets books, Harari, ...who would've thought those authors are popular for a reason? It's fast food literature that I enjoy mostly on long car rides
Jo nesbo harry hole series.
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
If I had any shame/guilt guess it would be from crappy machine translated web novels from japan and amateur erotic games written by english as a second language persons.
>>25037632I've read pic related in two sittings, it was a page turner and I even tear up a little. The flaws were in my face all the times, but I think the will-they/won't-they narrative hit a soft spot. The whole "class" theme is for the most part superficial or dealt with superficially - it ends up being sort of a reversed Jane Eyre or that kind of novel; only now the elite upperclass problematic lover is the woman and the poor, good-hearted but virtuous love puppy is the man. It ends up being a weirdly conservative book when it comes to relationships, and it fails to take into account each and any modern aspect of dating.
>>25037632Clavell's novels. Especially Tai-Pan and Shogun.
My Rest of Yeast and Relaxation
Some system/litrpg stuff is entertaining to listen to while I am at work. It's focus on tons of action makes a boring day pass pleasantly.
>>25037722Ignore the other anon, this isn’t embarrassing at all. A coming of age book is not only important for men to read for themselves, but also important for men to read in order to help younger men.I’m 38 and I just intentionally acquired a list of coming of age books from an older man. Currently reading Red Badge of Courage, just recently read Catcher in the Rye. A man’s journey to understand and live out manhood is never complete until death
>>25037762This was the book that started me back on my reading journey. Not embarrassing at all.
>>25041912I don't claim to be an expert on women but I feel like we ought to differentiate self-obsession from self-love.
>>25037632I got on the Blood Meridian bandwagon and it sits firmly in my top ten for American lit. I fucking love it.I also love Azumanga Daioh and Nichijou.I do take literature quite seriously and if you see any posts about literary currents within the Russian silver age there is a good chance I made it. But a man has to have his colt walkers and japslop
>>25040013The first Hunger Games novel was ok, 2 and 3 were dogshite.
>>25037632anything by Edward Elmer Smith. the four Skylark books are like eating a large jar of cookies all at once.
>>25037691sell me on the books anon i love the games and i love reading so they seem like potentially good fit
>>25037632I love pretty much every classic Stephen King book. I have also reread the Animorphs series several times and think it holds up amazingly well from an adult perspective
>>25037632>3rd gradeHarry Potter, Percy Jackson>6th gradeHunger Games, Catch 22>8th gradeMetro 2033, The Good Earth, Exodus >11th gradeHunter S Thompson, Henry Miller>After collegeAlbert Cossery
