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Poll Question: What sort of books do you mostly read?
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    Posted: March 03 2013 at 01:48
It goes roughly like this:
70 % modern fiction (novels and short stories),
15 % non-fiction (mostly about either music or literature, occasionally about whatever else subject, not much biographies though),
5 % science fiction (if not included in "modern fiction"),
5 % classic literature,
5 % graphic novels and stories.

The percentage has great variation of course.
BTW, it comes to me as a big surprise that history books are winning!
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Fiction, mostly.
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History, particularly JFK.    Wow, 'History' is winning.
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I love reading old sci-fi novels
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I don't read much; I have to be in the mood for it and that's not often. But when I do it's usually teen fiction (John Green, Markus Zusak, Meg Rosoff, etc.) and (auto)biographies of musicians.
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Histories by far.
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Mostly music texts.

Formerly, a lot of Lovecraft, and before that, a lot of science fiction (Frank Herbert, Roger Zelazny, Harlan Ellison, Samuel R Delany, Ray Bradbury, Asimov, Arthur C Clarke, Michael Moorcock, Iain M Banks). I pick up the latest instalment of the Dresden Files every year.

Today I picked out of the bookcase a little 150-page paperback by Moorcock - I love those, and I wish the publishing industry would bring them back. I used to be able to read one in a weekend.
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biographies and local history.
...that moment you realize you like "Mob Rules" better than "Heaven and Hell"
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History, music and encyclopediae.
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Nowadays and since quite a while ago I'm focused only on history. I finished the last fiction book I have recently read in around August.
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right, but I did modern fiction because I read a lot more of that.
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Originally posted by infocat infocat wrote:

For non-fiction: historical stuff, generally.
 
That'd be the History option, then?
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For non-fiction: historical stuff, generally.
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Mysteries would be modern fiction, I reckon.  What sort of non-fiction?

Edited by Stool Man - March 02 2013 at 07:50
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I read mostly mysteries.  Where does that fit in your poll?

Some non-fiction as well.
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I mostly read books about music - and yes, I also like dancing about architecture LOL
 
 
Do you read books?  What's your preference?
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