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What is your favorite reading genre?
Non-fiction 11 (17.5%)
Science Fiction 15 (23.8%)
Fantasy 19 (30.2%)
Horror 3 (4.8%)
Mystery 4 (6.3%)
Historical Fiction 5 (7.9%)
Realistic Fiction 0 (0%)
Humor 6 (9.5%)
Total Votes: 63
Genre; What is your favorite? Pick 3
Topic Started: Dec 15 2007, 08:26:33 PM (1,198 Views)
lbt/cty_lover
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I'm just a fat little dwaggy! Pwease hug me!
I personally love fantasy, sci-fi, and non. What do you like?
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landbeforetimelover
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I don't typically read for recreation, so I chose non-fiction as the first genre, science fiction as the second since I liked the star wars books, and fantasy as a third because I've liked one fantasy book so far that I've been forced to read. I've never liked any other type of genre at all.
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Kor
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In a rough order, non fiction, fantasy and science fiction.
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The Great Valley Guardian
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Longtail is ALWAYS watching!

Mine go in this order: Science fiction, Non-fiction, and fantasy.
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Manny Cav
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Non-fiction for me.
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Malte279
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I'm a historian. I MUST be like that!

Non-fiction, historical fiction, and fantasy.
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WeirdRaptor
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Science Fiction, Historical Fiction, and Fantasy are my picks.
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Ptyra
Allow me to put on my ~skepticals~
Non-fiction...usually about animals (Watership Down, The Animals of Farthing Wood, Gaurdians of Ga'Hoole...)

Fantasy (Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass, Chronicals of Narnia, Gaurdians of Ga'Hoole)

Those are my favorites
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Manny Cav
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Ptyra,Dec 16 2007
09:44 PM
Non-fiction...usually about animals (Watership Down, The Animals of Farthing Wood--

You mean to tell me that "The Animals of Farthing Wood" isn't fiction? :P:
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Kor
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Maybe it really happened. What was shown was an actual documentary. Though I guess it was filmed in a universe where everything is animated, or it was a broken documentary camera that rendered everything it filmed to their animated versions.
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Flathead770
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Ducky
my 3 are Fantasy, Sci-Fi, and non-fic. I sometimes enjoy reading if i find a book that catches my interests and gets me hooked.
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Malte279
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I'm a historian. I MUST be like that!

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  Maybe it really happened. What was shown was an actual documentary.
And how many rabbits were interviewed about their thoughts on El-ahrairah?
No way to label Watership down a non-fiction or a documentary even if the rabbits were not to anthropomorphized as much as in case of some other story. A non-fiction is the kind of literature which can be regarded primarily as facts (and opinions etc. are supposed to be labeled as such). Non-fiction is the stuff you read to learn or the kind of stuff which you can quote in scientific essays.
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lbt/cty_lover
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I'm just a fat little dwaggy! Pwease hug me!
Here are my favorite books for each genre that i like.

Non-Fiction: TOO MANY TO NAME
Sci-Fi: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
Fantasy: Discworld Series (Terry Pratchett)
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Petrie.
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I put a vote for Fantasy, Mystery, and Historical Fiction. :) In that order too.
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Dwalin
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I vote the same ( Fantasy, Mystery, Historical Fiction). I also like historical mysteries.
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Kor
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Non fiction, science fiction, and fantasy seems pretty common. :yes
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ArtemisPanthar
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In order: Horror, Sci-Fi, and Mystery. I do like Fantasy, but it's too wide a genre for me to vote for (there's a lot of fantasy I don't care for). I'm more into horror and sci-fi myself, I love spooky things. I love speculative fiction, too, I love how sci-fi speculates on where we'll be going and what the future will be like. I especially love the nature of fear, I love the analyze why something scares us and what it means. That's why I love horror.
Also, there's this whole big theory of thanatos in horror that I won't bore you with but it's a big factor in why I love the genre XD

Stephen King has a nice foreward in one of his short story books that is a good one-sentence go on the subject:
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And the great appeal of horror fiction through the ages is that it serves as a rehearsal for our own deaths.


As for mystery, well I picked that because I like True Crime. Granted, that would be non-fiction, but I don't like most non-fiction. Mystery tends to be a bit of both so I let it count for the True Crime genre.
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Cancerian Tiger
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Look Within Yourself
I picked non-fiction, horror and humor.

Non-fiction: I like documentaries, especially ones regarding crimes.

Horror: Gotta love to get spooked out :lol:.

Humor: Comic relief is a necessity when all ya read involves horror and other creepy themes.
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Timehopper
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The shy girl who writes like there's no tomorrow.
I like to read pretty much everything, although I do love to read fantasy and sci-fi.
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hoin1585
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Fantasy , Science Fiction , Historical Fiction and Humor.
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