Your favourite book genre?

Favourite literary (read: Book(!)) genre.

  • Romance

    Votes: 1 100.0%
  • Western

    Votes: 1 100.0%
  • Sci-fi

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Reportage

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Highbrow

    Votes: 1 100.0%
  • Chick-lit

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Classic reads

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Adventure

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Fantasy

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Other

    Votes: 1 100.0%

  • Total voters
    1
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purpleR

Guru
Location
Glasgow
The percentages add up to 266.6% :biggrin:
I clicked other, for me that means popular science books & detective novels!
 
I ticked other because I like lots of different kinds of book. I mostly seem to read history books nowadays, especially First and Second World War, or railway history, but I also like Iain M Banks (and his alter ego, Iain Banks), George MacDonald Fraser, Jonathan Coe, John Steinbeck and lots of others.
 

SamNichols

New Member
Location
Colne, Lancs
I like 20th century American fiction - particularly the writings of F. Scott Fitzgerald, the Beat authors, Hemingway, Vonnegut and Philip Roth.
 

Big Bren

New Member
Location
Yorkshire
Sci-fi & fantasy, and when I need to return to the real world for a while, I like to read autobiographies and non-fiction type stuff; Richard Dawkins 'The God Delusion' is next in line, as soon as I've finished Steven Eriksons' latest.

Bren
 

alecstilleyedye

nothing in moderation
Moderator
why is romance a separate category from chick-lit?
 

Paulus

Started young, and still going.
Location
Barnet,
strofiwimple said:
Why is Humour not a choice?????
Tom Sharpe every time.



I have read every on of Tom Sharpe's books, Ancestral Vices I think is my favourite. I also like Ben Eltons books as well, they are easy reads, not to taxing on the grey matter.
 

Emu

New Member
Location
Croydon
alecstilleyedye said:
why is romance a separate category from chick-lit?

a romance is girl meets boy and this is the central story whereas in chick lit girl meets boy doesn't necessarily feature at all.
 

Cathryn

Legendary Member
SamNichols said:
I like 20th century American fiction - particularly the writings of F. Scott Fitzgerald, the Beat authors, Hemingway, Vonnegut and Philip Roth.


ABSOLUTELY with you there!!! I also love Truman Capote, Paul Auster, Jay McInnery and Armistead Maupin. I also very shamefully admit to adoring Bret Easton Ellis, even though I wouldn't tell that to my Mum!!

But 20th Century European fiction is fabulous too!! I love Gunter Grass, Kundera, Boris Vian and Italo Calvino!! The last century was FABULOUS for writers!!!
 

bonj2

Guest
if there's any books on 'highbrow chick-clit' then that's enough to get me to read the first few pages at least.
 
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