UGVM Book Club discussion

Sometimes I just want to relax and read something requiring little if any brainpower.
The longer the series the better, as that way I don't have to make a decision about what to read after I finish the current book.
So in that style, a couple of long series of pulp. By no means am I claiming these are good books, in most cases decidedly the opposite, but sometimes you need a guilty pleasure.

"Warren Murphy & Richard Sapir" - Destroyer Series
At 145 books, never mind the quality, feel the width.
Story of a normal hardboiled cop framed and give the death penalty so he can be spirited away and trained as the ultimate assassin to save the worth from various implausible threats.
Offensive about pretty much any minority, or majority for that matter, the whole thing is so lighthearted and over the top that somehow it doesn't end up seeming objectionable. Contrasts strongly with the Executioner series, which seems to actually take itself seriously, and as such is rather unpleasant.

Perry Rhodan
You may have never heard of this, but is it the most successful science fiction series ever. Next year will be its 50th anniversary, with 2500 books written, and over a billion copies sold. Only about 130 are available in English however.
True pulp space opera.

Starfleet Corp of Engineers
Reasonable fan service for trekkies.

Alex Archer - Rogue Angel
Indiana Jones in a bra.
Escapist, vaguely archaeological, fluff.

Clive Cussler - Dirk Pitt/NUMA files
James Bond in scuba gear.
Escapist, very wet, action fluff.
Cussler has perfected the airport book, the thing you buy to read on the plane when you are too tired to read a good book.

Deathlands
Post nuclear holocaust survivalist fluff. Amusing obsession with details about guns.

In that vein, I thoroughly enjoyed all the Star Wars novels, and as there are eleventybillion of them now, you never need to worry about the next choice :D

The only choice you have is if you read them by publishing date, or timeline order...

A series I particularly enjoyed was Brian Lumley's 'Necroscope' - about a bloke who can talk to dead people and learn their skills. It has nasty vampires - proper ones, not sparkly skinned duck-faced louts with bad dress sense. The series is interesting - there's a lot of cold war espionage, a lot of historical stuff, and some forays into an alien world. Well worth a look.

My favourite pulp series is probably the Sharpe books by Bernard Cornwell. Considerably grimmer and bloodier than the TV versions, and just enough historical detail to make you feel you've learnt something too.