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Poll Question: Which prose fiction genre do you prefer?
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    Posted: September 17 2010 at 17:15
Originally posted by harmonium.ro harmonium.ro wrote:

LOL, what do I vote that covers Flaubert, Balzac, Tolstoy, Tchekhov, Cervantes, etc?

That's sort of what I was wondering, too. 
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Originally posted by TheGazzardian TheGazzardian wrote:

Definitely historical fiction. My favorite authors these days are Guy Gavriel Kay, Sharon Kay Penman, Neal Stephenson, and James Clavell. Guy Gavriel Kay is the only non-historical fiction author; he writes historical fantasy. 


So do most non-fiction historians Wink


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Now I have also noticed, that a lot of books that I read, do not fit in these categoriesConfused. They are more what I would call socio-critical novels. That would be 'other' then, too. But never mind, if the majority does not vote for the first two catogories, it also means something...Wink .
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LOL, what do I vote that covers Flaubert, Balzac, Tolstoy, Tchekhov, Cervantes, etc?
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Definitely historical fiction. My favorite authors these days are Guy Gavriel Kay, Sharon Kay Penman, Neal Stephenson, and James Clavell. Guy Gavriel Kay is the only non-historical fiction author; he writes historical fantasy. 
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Originally posted by Peter Peter wrote:

Originally posted by SaltyJon SaltyJon wrote:

Since people seem to like listing their favorite authors from their chosen genre, I'll do the same:
Douglas Adams, Kurt Vonnegut, Philip K. Dick, Frank Herbert
Shocked You like Dick, do you?
 
I remember junior high....Tongue

Yep. LOL

I also forgot to include Harlan Ellison in my list there.
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There's no way I can pick one. I love Tolkien and Rowling, but almost no other fantasy. I like a lot of sci-fi short stories, but very few novels. I really enjoy crime/detective novels by Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, but don't know if I could call it my favorite genre. For horror I like Poe, but little else. The only adventure author I really read is Jules Verne. My two favorite authors (Victor Hugo and Herman Melville) don't really fit into these geners well (maybe tragedy for Hugo, but I feel it's too narrow.) So I guess no vote for me.
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Originally posted by SaltyJon SaltyJon wrote:

Since people seem to like listing their favorite authors from their chosen genre, I'll do the same:
Douglas Adams, Kurt Vonnegut, Philip K. Dick, Frank Herbert
Shocked You like Dick, do you?
 
I remember junior high....Tongue
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Since people seem to like listing their favorite authors from their chosen genre, I'll do the same:
Douglas Adams, Kurt Vonnegut, Philip K. Dick, Frank Herbert
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Originally posted by ExittheLemming ExittheLemming wrote:

Originally posted by Peter Peter wrote:

Ermm Gee, I don't know that I have a favourite.
 
If you'd asked me in my teens/twenties, it'd be sci fi, no doubt, but these days I'd say I enjoy Victorian novels (Dickens, Thackery, etc), fantasy, sci fi and historial fiction about equally. Smile
 
I also enjoy a lot of other fiction I wouldn't know how to categorize, plus humour fiction (Tom Sharpe, Sue Townsend, etc), and lots of non-fiction. I just like good BOOKS!
 
But I seemed to out-grow horror by my late teens.


Yes, marriage can do that to you Ouch
LOL sniggle -- but I didn't marry until 30.
I used to read mysteries, too -- hardly ever, now.
Maybe marriage and its perquisites took all the mystery out of life....Wink
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My favorite book of all time is a Western, my second favorite is a fantasy book, third favorite is drama, fourth is a war book and fifth is an adventure/crime story. 

...I didn't vote. 
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Out of the list historical fiction.
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I voted other.
Tell me which kind of prose is the one that includes writers like Falkner, Dostoyevsky, Gogol, John Barth, Richler, Vargas Liose, Gombrovitch, Servantes, Hardy and Camu (just to name some of those that their books realy touched me) and I'll vote for that.
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Originally posted by ExittheLemming ExittheLemming wrote:

Originally posted by Peter Peter wrote:

Ermm Gee, I don't know that I have a favourite.
 
If you'd asked me in my teens/twenties, it'd be sci fi, no doubt, but these days I'd say I enjoy Victorian novels (Dickens, Thackery, etc), fantasy, sci fi and historial fiction about equally. Smile
 
I also enjoy a lot of other fiction I wouldn't know how to categorize, plus humour fiction (Tom Sharpe, Sue Townsend, etc), and lots of non-fiction. I just like good BOOKS!
 
But I seemed to out-grow horror by my late teens.


Yes, marriage can do that to you Ouch
 
Do you mean there's enough horror in life already ?
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Originally posted by Peter Peter wrote:

Ermm Gee, I don't know that I have a favourite.
 
If you'd asked me in my teens/twenties, it'd be sci fi, no doubt, but these days I'd say I enjoy Victorian novels (Dickens, Thackery, etc), fantasy, sci fi and historial fiction about equally. Smile
 
I also enjoy a lot of other fiction I wouldn't know how to categorize, plus humour fiction (Tom Sharpe, Sue Townsend, etc), and lots of non-fiction. I just like good BOOKS!
 
But I seemed to out-grow horror by my late teens.


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Ermm Gee, I don't know that I have a favourite.
 
If you'd asked me in my teens/twenties, it'd be sci fi, no doubt, but these days I'd say I enjoy Victorian novels (Dickens, Thackery, etc), fantasy, sci fi and historial fiction about equally. Smile
 
I also enjoy a lot of other fiction I wouldn't know how to categorize, plus humour fiction (Tom Sharpe, Sue Townsend, etc), and lots of non-fiction. I just like good BOOKS!
 
But I seemed to out-grow horror by my late teens.
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O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
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I wouldn't classify Orwell as a sci-fi author at all.
 
Now, I would say that my favorite fiction is the one that writes Italo Calvino, crossover of fantasy and a historic background. Not sure what it is.
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I'm reading Mein KampfLOL
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Originally posted by Triceratopsoil Triceratopsoil wrote:

Originally posted by Henry Plainview Henry Plainview wrote:

Originally posted by Triceratopsoil Triceratopsoil wrote:

NIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVVVVVVVVEENNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN
The Ringworld series gets creepy. And I don't mean in a good way.

I don't know, I would have voted sci-fi several years ago but now I don't know.


yeh, I've barely read anything in the last couple years

Me neither, I keep wanting to change that, but that darn ol' internet keeps distracting me.
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Originally posted by Henry Plainview Henry Plainview wrote:

Originally posted by Triceratopsoil Triceratopsoil wrote:

NIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVVVVVVVVEENNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN
The Ringworld series gets creepy. And I don't mean in a good way.

I don't know, I would have voted sci-fi several years ago but now I don't know.


yeh, I've barely read anything in the last couple years
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