Off Topic: What's Your Guilty Pleasure?

"Jcarr" (jcarr) 08/25/2014 at 10:52 • Filed to: Guilty Pleasures

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What is it that you love, but are hesitant to admit?

Mine is Harry Potter. My wife made me watch the movies a few years ago and damned if she didn't get me hooked. I've since gone back and read all of the books and each fall we watch all 8 of the movies.

^This is my....excuse.

So, Oppo, what's yours?

Nerd-Vol > Jcarr 08/25/2014 at 10:54

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Pornography.

treesmakewater > Jcarr 08/25/2014 at 10:54

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*gulp * I like the Passat sedan more than the wagon.

GhostZ > Jcarr 08/25/2014 at 10:54

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Oppo.

macanamera > Jcarr 08/25/2014 at 10:55

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1. Reading crap sci-fi/adventure novels.

2. Playing childish video games.

3. I might also maybe possibly slightly a little maybe like Taylor Swift's music.

themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles > Jcarr 08/25/2014 at 10:55

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Dodge intrepid R/T

mr_gofast > Nerd-Vol 08/25/2014 at 10:55

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505Turbeaux > Nerd-Vol 08/25/2014 at 10:55

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yup, but what flavor?

CalzoneGolem > Jcarr 08/25/2014 at 10:55

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I've evolved beyond guilt

mr_gofast > treesmakewater 08/25/2014 at 10:56

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mcseanerson > Jcarr 08/25/2014 at 10:56

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Hooning my Ford Aspire back when I had it.

Jcarr > treesmakewater 08/25/2014 at 10:57

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Better be careful, you non-wagon folk aren't viewed too kindly 'round these parts.

Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection > Jcarr 08/25/2014 at 10:57

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Papa Roach.

mr_gofast > Jcarr 08/25/2014 at 10:57

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video games pc and console :(...im a older geek in hiding.

GhostZ > mr_gofast 08/25/2014 at 10:57

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Well, it is only a model.

GhostZ > CalzoneGolem 08/25/2014 at 10:57

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For me, there is only pleasure.

mr_gofast > GhostZ 08/25/2014 at 10:58

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but..over zee wagon.....hand over zee jalopnik membership card...

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > Jcarr 08/25/2014 at 10:58

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Oh huge Harry Potter fan here. No shame in that. Read every book more than once and watched all movies.

This will get you though, worse than HP - I've read all the Twilight books. They're actually pretty good. Topics may be very teenage girl angst, but it's well written.

AM3R > Jcarr 08/25/2014 at 10:59

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Listening to some interesting music.

(Lil B)

treesmakewater > mr_gofast 08/25/2014 at 11:00

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dont lose faith, I really like the brown VW and Audi uses currently. The Passat wagon just seems a little awkward. Sign me up for the a3 sportback though!

TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. > Jcarr 08/25/2014 at 11:00

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Cheesy 80's PI series like Remington Steele.

Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis > Jcarr 08/25/2014 at 11:00

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First one I can think of off the top of my head is really girly R&B music.

Nerd-Vol > 505Turbeaux 08/25/2014 at 11:01

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Oiled up.

GhostZ > MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner 08/25/2014 at 11:02

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They're actually pretty good.

mr_gofast > GhostZ 08/25/2014 at 11:02

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true hedonism?

Jcarr > MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner 08/25/2014 at 11:03

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I'm getting more open about it, haha! Good to know there are others out there!

mr_gofast > TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. 08/25/2014 at 11:03

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magnum pI??

mcseanerson > mr_gofast 08/25/2014 at 11:04

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zee vagon

Fixed that for you.

Vince-The Roadside Mechanic > Jcarr 08/25/2014 at 11:06

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I don't think I have one.

thebigbossyboss > Jcarr 08/25/2014 at 11:07

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Euro truck simulator 2. It comes and goes, but sometimes I will play it a lot.

cazzyodo > Jcarr 08/25/2014 at 11:08

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Shoes.

GhostZ > AM3R 08/25/2014 at 11:08

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EL_ULY > Jcarr 08/25/2014 at 11:11

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LaLD :]

AM3R > GhostZ 08/25/2014 at 11:13

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MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > Jcarr 08/25/2014 at 11:16

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can't hold me down, I read what I WANT.

I also read the hunger games series. I always try and read before watching so the characters in my mind aren't who was casted for the role in the movie.

Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs > Jcarr 08/25/2014 at 11:22

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I eat exorbitant amounts of pasta and rice, I love carbs and fear the day, should it come, that it actually causes me to gain weight, haha.

I am currently watching a show on Lifetime, The Lottery. I am also a big fan of the Good Wife.

I'm sure there's more, haha.

Cherry_man1 > Jcarr 08/25/2014 at 11:23

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Really....I cna honestly say I don't know....maybe the random ass zit popping videos on youtube. those are fun to watch. and maybe some random ass gore videos on liveleak.

Jcarr > MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner 08/25/2014 at 11:29

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I (unintentionally) did it the opposite way with HP. Reading the books, I was picturing the movie actors. Doesn't really bother me, though.

Jcarr > Cherry_man1 08/25/2014 at 11:29

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That's definitely unique!

TheRallyStache > Jcarr 08/25/2014 at 11:41

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Me? I have no guilt, or shame. I'll openly admit to loving Harry Potter, The Fast and the Furious, occasionally listening to Eminem, collecting Hotwheels...

Life is too short to be ashamed of liking something.

mr_gofast > Vince-The Roadside Mechanic 08/25/2014 at 11:43

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liesssss ":{

mazda616 > Jcarr 08/25/2014 at 11:46

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'80s and '90s sitcoms. Love them.

Jcarr > TheRallyStache 08/25/2014 at 11:50

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Well-said!

Denver Is Stuck In The 90s > Jcarr 08/25/2014 at 11:50

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My guilty pleasure is purposely being an idiot for the sake of being an idiot

TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. > mr_gofast 08/25/2014 at 11:54

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Yup, that too.

Vince-The Roadside Mechanic > mr_gofast 08/25/2014 at 12:02

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I don't think I have one. I like to play with fire if that counts?

mr_gofast > Vince-The Roadside Mechanic 08/25/2014 at 12:30

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pyros ftw :O

desertdog5051 > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 08/25/2014 at 13:03

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A really good chocolate. Eaten in excess.

Bullitt417 > Jcarr 08/25/2014 at 13:14

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It's fake and mind numbing.... yet I love it!

brian1321 > Jcarr 08/25/2014 at 13:15

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Pop music. Like bubblegum pop.

Ke$ha, Ariana Grande, all that shit.

Jcarr > desertdog5051 08/25/2014 at 13:24

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Have you tried these? They're like crack to me.

NaturallyAspirated > Jcarr 08/25/2014 at 13:27

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Uh, I like playing Japanese visual novels with fan translations.

Like, really like them.

Like, "I imported the collector's edition" like.

desertdog5051 > Jcarr 08/25/2014 at 13:34

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No. Isn't that made by Hershey? Where do you get it?

Jcarr > desertdog5051 08/25/2014 at 14:04

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They have them at our local supermarket chain, so I'd assume you can find them at most grocery stores. The pomegranate ones have a bit of a weird taste, but the other two are great.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > Jcarr 08/25/2014 at 14:21

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This week?

Jcarr > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 08/25/2014 at 14:30

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It's so blue.

Stephen the Canuck > MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner 08/25/2014 at 23:59

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I've read the Harry Potter series around 8 or 9 times. Dobby dying will always be heart breaking. My girlfriend has read them like 17 times she says. Which I believe. I like the movies too, but would rather read the books.

I've read the Twilight series twice. Not bad actually. The movies weren't very good, but I've seen them all too.

Since you didn't hate the Twilight books, try The Host, by Stephenie Meyer. It was a lot better.

Also, 50 Shades of Grey was a good read. The psychology in it is fascinating.

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > Stephen the Canuck 08/26/2014 at 10:12

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I didn't read the Grey books, my wife read 2.5 of them, she quit in the middle of the third one, she said it seemed forced (lol pun wasn't intended but I'm leaving it there lol).

I'll try the host, we have the movie and just haven't gotten around to it because we haven't been all that excited about it.

I'm a lot more into books from authors like Tom Clancy, Vince Flynn, Steve Berry, etc. But it's fun to have a silly easy reading book every once in a while.

Stephen the Canuck > MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner 08/26/2014 at 11:23

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Most of my books are either epic fantasy (Tolkien, Jordan, Stirling, Goodkind) or military action fiction (Clancy, Baldacci, Hunter, etc.). Those are my favourite kinds of books.

If you've seen Shooter with Mark Walhberg, and liked it, you would probably like the Stephen Hunter books with the Bob Lee Swagger character.

The Host was really good. I was surprised that it was from the same author as Twilight. The movie was also much better done than the Twilight movies.

I enjoyed the Grey books. There wasn't as much x-rated material as it was purported to have, and I really enjoyed when it got into the mind of Christian Grey, and talked about what made him tick.

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > Stephen the Canuck 08/26/2014 at 11:40

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Interesting, those books are all in my house so I suppose I could pick one up and give it a try.

I had NO IDEA that Shooter was based off a book character. That's now on my must read authors list.

Baldacci is great, I'm almost 100% up to date on him. Check out Steve Berry, it's a bit more historical but really cool. Brad Thor is one of my favorites as well, goes right a long with Vince Flynn and Tom Clancy style books. He does it well.

I'm currently reading James Rollins's Sigma Force series. Pretty cool, gets a little more sci-fi meets historical political thriller. It's a weird mix but it's working so far (I'm on the 3rd one).

So yeah right now my top authors are:

Clancy

Flynn

Thor

Baldacci

Berry

Rollins

(unfortunately Clancy and Flynn have passed away, Flynn died young from cancer last year, another author he's worked with in the past is picking up where he left off with the books though)

Stephen the Canuck > MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner 08/26/2014 at 13:46

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I think I have a few Steve Berry books, but they're still at my parents. I've enjoyed those too.

Clive Cussler has stuff that's along those lines too, and they're really good. The movie Sahara, with Matthew McConaughey, is based off one of his books.

James Rollins is good stuff. I like the Sigma Force series too. I've read a few of them.

Baldacci is good, I just finished King and Maxwell from him. It has an excerpt from The Escape in the back, which is a John Puller book, so I really want to get it.

Lee Child is also pretty good. It's the books that the Jack Reacher movie came from.

Ben Coe's Eye for an Eye was a really good book too. Robert Ludlum (the Jason Bourne stuff) also has some really good books.

Dan Brown has some other books beside Angels and Demons or the Davinci Code, and they're decent.

Stuart Woods has a pretty good series going with the Stone Barrington books.

Definitely read the Bob Lee Swagger books, the one Shooter was based off of wasn't even close to the best book.

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > Stephen the Canuck 08/26/2014 at 14:02

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wow, this is a great list, I gotta save this thread.

And I've read every Dan Brown book, loved em all.

From Baldacci my favorite series is the Camel Club.

Man I've got some reading to do, better charge the kindle...

Stephen the Canuck > MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner 08/26/2014 at 14:47

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For the longest time I didn't know of any other than Angels and Demons, or The Davinci Code, but when the newest one came out, I ended up downloading his earlier ones too and loved them.

I think I've only read the first Camel Club book. I really like the John Puller books.

I have a bunch on my Kobo, but I have a lot more paper books. My favourite thing to do, at gas stations and convenience stores is to find their book racks and check them over. I'll read the blurb on the back or inside the cover, and if sounds interesting then I'll grab it.

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > Stephen the Canuck 08/26/2014 at 14:57

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hmmm Not sure if I remember reading a John Puller one, i'll have to look it up.

Man we've got some good reading ahead of us.

I scope out the books at the grocery store, then get them cheap elsewhere lol

Stephen the Canuck > MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner 08/26/2014 at 15:08

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They're pretty good. I think there is now three of them out.

Yes we do. I really like to get into series. Some of my favourite epic fantasy ones are around 12 books long.

Not a bad way to do it. I usually find that gas stations aren't bad for prices.