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Grinder, that definitely qualifies as embarrassing, but as I spent my formative years waiting for Star Trek to come on, once wrote the beginnings of my own Star Trek story (starring me) and had a friend who was convinced she could build a ship out of old washing up bottles and go off and find the Enterprise, your red face is my red face.
Sharon
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Books I'm embarrassed to own/read? Backstory books about soap operas and magazines of same - I pick up the books in charity shops, and sometimes buy the 'update' magazines. The one I was most ashamed of was about The Archers, and stopped at 1995.
I live in a tiny flat and keep going abroad, so have periodic culls of old novels. The ones I can't bear to get rid of are by Anita Brookner.They all have the same basic plot. I love to hate her prissy heroines with their pampered lives and fusty flats, where nothing ever happens except lone walks and scrambled eggs at 4pm.
Sheila
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My friends are getting a little tired of my bible quotations to be fair. Nothing like a bit of scripture to put the wind up people.
JB
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Go on then, JB, give us your favourite bible quotation....
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He who has been forgiven little loves little.
- Luke 7:47
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Oh, and I love this one:
Don't forget to be kind to strangers. For some who have done this have entertained angels without realizing it.
- Hebrews 13:2
There's another one about a lamp and a bowel, but I can't remember it now. Also, I adore the really nasty stuff - you know, seas of blood and giant locusts...
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'a lamp and a bowel' sounds pretty nasty to me, JB!!
;-) Mike
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Ahem. Well, they do say that Christ can light you from within...
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Georgette Heyer? My ex-agent handles her estate – so I'm RIGHT OFF HER!!!
Dee
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I have to admit that when I was about fourteen, I had a sneaky affection for Nancy Drew novels...
JB
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Well we've probably all got teenage embarrassing books. I had a teenage Sidney Sheldon phase....
Cath
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Bloodlines and When Tomorrow Comes (I think it was called that) were two of the first adult books I ever read. Think I was about eleven and my dad had some concerns.
JB
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Scruples[\i] by Judith Krantz had the first sex scenes I'd ever read - about the same date that I met Flashman. I went on and read most of the rest of her books as they appeared.
Emma
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Yes! When Tomorrow Comes was my favourite! And didn't they have great covers - like frosted photos of wineglasses, roses, guns, stuff like that....
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Wax, I read every single Nancy Drew, and when I finished those I read every single Trixie Belden (anyone ever hear of her?) The Trixie Beldens, however, were being written while I was still a kid so there were more written after I stopped reading them. I used to read my mom's castoffs, which included Georgette Heyer, Elizabeth Peters/Barbara Michaels, Victoria Holt, etc. Pure escapism, all of them - spent many a lovely afternoon that way. Book in hand, cat on lap, and mug of coffee on the table beside me....
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The Sheldon covers were great. The first sex scenes I read were in Lace by Shirley Conran (?). My older brother actually ringed the scenes with a felt tip pen. It was an education.
I remember one Nancy Drew with a ghost ship that was pretty thrilling.
JB
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