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Unitron 
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 Topic: Favorite genre for books?Posted: 12 Apr 2015 at 10:25pm |
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So, what are your favorite genre/s for books?
What I tend to enjoy the most is historical fiction based around areas of history I enjoy. One of my favorite books of all time is 'The Telling Pool', which takes place during the third crusade. I also like some horror/thrillers if they're written right, also like some sci-fi/fantasy. I also love Choose Your Own Adventures, no matter what age those books are awesome.
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Posted: 12 Apr 2015 at 10:47pm |
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I love most horror books along with Sci-Fi. Not a huge fan of Fantasy books but there are a few authors out there I like to read. I also really enjoy historical fiction books too.
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Posted: 13 Apr 2015 at 2:33am |
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Old school hard sci-fi, classics, russian lit. That probably covers 90% of what I read
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Posted: 13 Apr 2015 at 3:11am |
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I've always mostly read fantasy, but my interest in sci-fi has been increasing. I have read some horror (Stephen King only) but I'm not a massive fan of horror novels as I am horror films.
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Posted: 13 Apr 2015 at 6:06am |
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This is terrible, I know, but to me it's linguistics books.
Fictionwise, I do like sci-fi and a bit of horror though. I just rarely have to time to read fiction. |
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Posted: 13 Apr 2015 at 7:25am |
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Nowadays, what I read most is historical narrative, but I usually read mystery and realist books.
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Posted: 14 Apr 2015 at 3:09pm |
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I don't really have a favourite genre, although I have favourite authors:
- Stanisław Lem (philosophy/hard sf/postmodern) - Jean P. Sartre (existentialism) - Paul Auster (postmodernism) - Haruki Murakami (postmodernism) - Stieg Larsson (crime/social issues) - Andrzej Sapkowski (fantasy/scifi/alternative history fiction) - Jacques Godbout (postmodern fiction) (the subject of my master's thesis is one of his novels) - Albert Camus (existentialism) Well, postmodern fiction seems to be a recurring theme ;d But it's not really a genre, it's a movement. |
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Posted: 10 Dec 2016 at 3:14pm |
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I really like horror: Stephen King or Anne Rice are really my cup of tea...I also like romance, such as Nora Roberts and I love the classics as well....like Gone With The Wind, for example....
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Posted: 10 Dec 2016 at 4:20pm |
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Hard SF mostly. Can't stand fantasy unless it's Terry Pratchett. Also like biographies and a bit of Richard Dawkins, Stephen Hawking, Richard Feynman, Christoper Hitchens, Bertrand Russell... Pop philosophy and science I suppose.
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Posted: 11 Dec 2016 at 3:21pm |
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I forgot about biographies, I really like those as well...
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I've always been very fond of dystopian fiction, but more recently I have become very partial to classic science fiction short stories/novels by Philip K. Dick, Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, Ursula Le Guin, and so on. Otherwise, I'm generally not too fussy - I can read virtually anything from the classics to fantasy, so long as it doesn't qualify as chick lit, or romance.
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Posted: 10 Aug 2018 at 2:09am |
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I started reading classics just because I felt conscious that I'd never really done so (outside some of the classic fantasy-type books). I do like a good history book too. Recently read a book penned by an Australian journalist written around the life of a bloke I met in Cambodia about his life growing up under the Khmer Rouge. Harrowing.
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Posted: 10 Aug 2018 at 7:26pm |
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I'm not too big on reading; when I do though it's usually stuff by H.P. Lovecraft. Love it!
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I have a hard-back copy of this compilation of Lovecraft's short stories which I need to start reading:  |
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Arthur C Clarke is my favourite all time author. I must have read The City and the Stars at six times. As well as science fiction I am a Fantasy fan as well, particularly like David Eddings, Joe Abercrombe, Robin Hobb, George RR Martin etc.
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I'm been reading more in the line of crime/thriller/mystery lately (mainly so called Nordic Noir). I've read a few sci-fi and a fantasy novella in between some of them but I'm mostly exclusively reading that kind of thing now. at least until I want a change of pace again, then I'll probably tackle some fantasy or sci-fi series I've had sitting around for too long.
Currently reading a lot of Jo Nesbo. I was going to switch author for a while after two books from him but the last one ended on a bit of a cliffhanger so that plan went out the window.
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Posted: 09 Apr 2020 at 2:32am |
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I'm back on the fantasy now having just started with Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn/Cosmere series. But damn are his books hard to get except at new price. Currently trying to get books 4 - 6 (found 6, but 5 is proving a bugger) as well as the second half of The Way of Kings, the first volume of his Stormlight Archive. I found the first half ages ago as well as Oathbringer, the third book. I still need to get a complete hardback of Words of Radiance or the two paperbacks. And that's without even considering the two current standalone Cosmere novels. Might have to suck it up and buy them new from Amazon.
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Posted: 09 Apr 2020 at 2:55pm |
Any more Nordic/Scandi-Noir authors you could recommend? (In English obviously, because I'm very self-consciously monolingual). I read the Stieg Larssen/Girl With A Weird-assed Personality series of books, including the continuation of the series by the guy who's name I can't remember, and the first three originals are definitely best. I got started on Jo Nesbo, read the first one, found it pretty good, but then got bored with the second. I also went through all the Kathy Reichs/Temperance Brennan series, and loved those. Never got into the TV series though. Also enjoyed JK Rowling's Cormoran Strike books. Yes, it's hacky detective fiction, but whatever you think of her, JK can tell a story. And I'm also quite partial to a John Le Carre book or two. His writing seems to be so effortlessly stylish, and conjures some brilliant imagery, and memories of the shadier side of the post-WWII period, both during and after the Cold War. Currently reading Neal Stephenson's "Fall, or Dodge in Hell". I've got a bit bogged around the middle of the book, but that's got more to do with my current work/life situation than the book itself. I'm also listening to the audiobooks of Stephenson's "Seveneves" which I have already read, and am up to "Blue Mars" in Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars triology, although that is on hold at the moment, because it's what I listen to when I'm driving.
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Posted: 09 Apr 2020 at 4:28pm |
Nesbo doesn't become true Nordic Noir until book 3. Out of the five I've read of the Harry Hole series books 3 & 5 were my favourites. 3 through 5 each have their own plot but also form a loose trilogy. Other authors I've enjoyed in this genre are: Mons Kallentoft (Swedish) - these are a bit different because there's actually a supernatural element within them, yet that has no bearing on the outcome of the stories, only the manner in which they're told. I've only read the first two so far but very eager to continue. A favourite after Larsson and Nesbo. Anne Holt (Norwegian) - I've read the first two of the Hanne Wilhelmsen series with 3 standing by. Pretty good. Erik Axel Sund (Swedish) - there's only one book in English, The Crow Girl, which was three books in the original Swedish. A significantly more psychological book than some of the others I've read. I found it a riveting read personally. Samuel Bjork (Norwegian) - I've read the first of three called I'm Travelling Alone. Couldn't put it down. Ragnar Jónasson (Icelandic) - read one. A slower burn than some for a short book. Probably spends too much time building up its main character and his background without furthering the actual crime of the novel. Good once it got going. Would read more but his books aren't the easiest to find here. Some other authors in this genre I have books lined up from but haven't read yet would be: Alex Dahl, Camilla Grebe, Lotte and Soren Hammer, Camilla Läckberg, Åsa Larsson, Håkan Nesser, Yrsa Sigurðardóttir and Søren Sveistrup.
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