Favourite prose fiction genre in literature?
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Topic: Favourite prose fiction genre in literature?
Posted By: Formentera Lady
Subject: Favourite prose fiction genre in literature?
Date Posted: September 14 2010 at 05:49
Inspired by a recent thread about science fiction / fantasy and prog (a thread I must confess I did not fully unterstand  ) I made up this poll. So which is your favourite genre in prose fiction literature?I know that there is much overlapping, (for example science fiction and fantasy), but just choose, what you think most applies to you. I vote SF which is closely followed by Action/Thriller/Conspiracy/Spy. I do not like Fantasy much, although many of my favourite bands and their album covers seem to be inspired by it. |
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Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: September 14 2010 at 05:59
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I voted "other" for non-genre fiction. Then I realised it's by definition not a genre. Now I feel so silly.
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Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: September 14 2010 at 06:31
If it's any consolation, I didn't understand that thread either (and I started it  )I voted 'other' meaning it's mostly novels I read (yeah, that's pretty wide ranging but none of those critters fall into the categories provided) ------------- 
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Formentera Lady wrote:Posted By: Formentera Lady
Date Posted: September 14 2010 at 06:41
| I think, the non-fiction genre (political, sociological, economical, technical, historical, philosophical books and essays etc.) might be a different matter, so I excluded it from the list. But those, who prefer non-fiction, don't you also read some fiction? |
Posted By: yanch
Date Posted: September 14 2010 at 06:59
| I read for true escapism, so for me it is science fiction. |
Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: September 14 2010 at 11:04
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Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: September 14 2010 at 11:26
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well my head is in the clouds so you can guess which genere i like, i'm a fantasy geek, i'm also trying some sci-fi, crime-books, and teanage angst books (thoe i become depressed reading them), I can't read to realistic books becouse i'm too easy to be influence by the caractes,
i get to easaly cought in the moment, and I'm also tendncies to believe to to much of what the book is feading me with its theme, I'm not often to crittical of what i'm reading, and when thing gets intriguing I believe it (until) someone else gives me another prespective, (sometimes I have problems getting the grip of the total sum of signs and info which makes me not think of certain thoughts to analytical)
I need someone elses analytical voice to guide me so I see the prespective
I once saw a Interview with David Irwing (the so cald historian and holocoust-denier) on Norwegian television where he told he's background, he's research, an how he interpretated he's source. My probelem regarding this is that I tend to (not sympethise)but agree to some extent (even though deep in me I know that I should listen to it with a crittical ear), but somehow some of he's statments make sence, until the next segment arrieve where one gyu (who have seen the hole interview backstage, but was not precent in the tv-studio simultaniously)
that when that guy said that you could not take Irwins so cald source for legetime, and that the way he resrearches is not bound in true accademic fashion which made me change my mind about Irwing to a more crittical one
did that make sence  -------------  
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Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: September 14 2010 at 13:52
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Love novels. But Western stories above all. It keeps me reminding about my good old Camargue. |
Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: September 14 2010 at 14:02
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Sci-fi for sure.
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Posted By: Henry Plainview
Date Posted: September 14 2010 at 14:59
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. ------------- if you own a sodastream i hate you |
Posted By: The T
Date Posted: September 14 2010 at 17:15
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My avatar should tell it all. ------------- 
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Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: September 14 2010 at 17:49
The Annual Report of the World Dentists Union? |
Posted By: KoS
Date Posted: September 14 2010 at 18:48
memoirs 
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Posted By: Chris H
Date Posted: September 14 2010 at 19:10
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I mostly read philosophy, so I voted other, but I do read some older Sci-Fi (like Wells, Orwell) so I guess that's my favorite fictional genre. ------------- Beauty will save the world. 
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Posted By: Conor Fynes
Date Posted: September 14 2010 at 19:41
| Can't beat Asimov/Herbert/Lovecraft... |
Posted By: WalterDigsTunes
Date Posted: September 14 2010 at 19:50
| I don't read fiction. |
Posted By: UndercoverBoy
Date Posted: September 14 2010 at 20:07
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Posted By: Henry Plainview
Date Posted: September 14 2010 at 20:24
Lovecraft was a incredibly poor writer. If you like his weird ideas, I understand (The Colour Out of Space was neat), but he did not understand how the vast majority of people act and use the English language. That makes sense when you look at his isolated life, but it doesn't make his practically autistic prose any easier to get through. It's embarrassing, I actually haven't sat down and read a book in a long time, although I'm reading something in practically all my free time. Stupid internet... ------------- if you own a sodastream i hate you |
Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: September 14 2010 at 20:25
yeh, I've barely read anything in the last couple years |
Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: September 14 2010 at 20:29
Me neither, I keep wanting to change that, but that darn ol' internet keeps distracting me. |
Posted By: Chris H
Date Posted: September 14 2010 at 20:34
I'm reading Mein Kampf ------------- Beauty will save the world.
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Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: September 14 2010 at 20:39
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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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Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: September 15 2010 at 01:25
 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.
 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. ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: September 15 2010 at 07:41
Yes, marriage can do that to you  -------------
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Posted By: omri
Date Posted: September 15 2010 at 12:23
Do you mean there's enough horror in life already ? ------------- omri |
Posted By: omri
Date Posted: September 15 2010 at 12:26
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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. ------------- omri |
Posted By: Lizzy
Date Posted: September 15 2010 at 12:29
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Out of the list historical fiction. |
Posted By: 40footwolf
Date Posted: September 15 2010 at 21:27
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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. ------------- Heaven's made a cesspool of us all. |
Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: September 15 2010 at 22:25
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.... ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: September 15 2010 at 22:27
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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 ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Salty_Jon" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: September 15 2010 at 22:48
 You like Dick, do you?
I remember junior high.... ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: thellama73
Date Posted: September 15 2010 at 23:09
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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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Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: September 15 2010 at 23:20
Yep. I also forgot to include Harlan Ellison in my list there. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Salty_Jon" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: TheGazzardian
Date Posted: September 15 2010 at 23:42
| 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. |
Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: September 16 2010 at 06:38
| LOL, what do I vote that covers Flaubert, Balzac, Tolstoy, Tchekhov, Cervantes, etc? |
Posted By: Formentera Lady
Date Posted: September 16 2010 at 07:01
Now I have also noticed, that a lot of books that I read, do not fit in these categories. 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... . |
Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: September 16 2010 at 14:16
So do most non-fiction historians -------------
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Posted By: 40footwolf
Date Posted: September 17 2010 at 17:15
That's sort of what I was wondering, too. ------------- Heaven's made a cesspool of us all. |