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In other words "please tell us the names of books that you're not ashamed for people to know that you are reading".

Is anyone here reading some absolute trash like Dan Brown, or do we only read "good" books?

I'll start. I've just read "Full Assault Mode" by Dalton Fury. The action is good, but the account of hacking a nuclear power station using iPhones is completely risible.

I'm now reading I, Claudius which is a lot better.

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I just finished Alan Dean Foster's "Taken" Trilogy and really enjoyed it. It's probably "not as bad" as Dan Brown (opinion only, possibly), but it's what most here would just classify as escapist trash.

Also Scott Meyer released a sequel to his "Off to be the Wizard" book (Spell or Highwater) and I finished reading it soon after the Taken trilogy. It's a great series too.

I bought the "Everything is Bullshit" book and I'm on a plane tomorrow, so I'll probably finish it during the flight.

Yeah, I shouldn't have said bad, maybe "non high-brow" or something.

I also just worked my way through all the Cato and Macro Simon Scarrow books.

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