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Fiction vs Nonfiction - Darth-Apple - June 27th, 2013
Personally, I like both, but if I had to choose between them, I'd go with nonfiction. What's your preference?
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Re: Fiction vs Nonfiction - Acko - June 27th, 2013
I do like fiction, but usually when I read nowadays, it's out of a manual or a history book
Re: Fiction vs Nonfiction - Darth-Apple - June 27th, 2013
LOL, same here.
Re: Fiction vs Nonfiction - Gmdykfuiygh66476 - June 28th, 2013
I prefer fiction... although like the two above me, I find myself reading manuals or history books more often than others
RE: Fiction vs Nonfiction - Acko - July 22nd, 2013
Ikea manuals are the most entertaining form of manuals.
RE: Fiction vs Nonfiction - earlybird - August 8th, 2013
Classic fiction. (Pride and Prejudice, etc. ) I also like history. And Sometimes I do delve into reading owner's manuals. Most of the time, the stuff in there is common sense, or incomprehensible.
RE: Fiction vs Nonfiction - Agandl - August 24th, 2013
Fiction for pleasure 90% of the time
(August 8th, 2013 at 9:24 PM)earlybird Wrote: Classic fiction. (Pride and Prejudice, etc. ) I also like history. And Sometimes I do delve into reading owner's manuals. Most of the time, the stuff in there is common sense, or incomprehensible.
Love Jane Austin and have read them all several times
I also love vintage crime - Marjory Allingham, Ngaio Marsh, Dorothy Sayers, Josephine
Tay etc
Some great modern books too Robert Harris's Pompeii, Ordinary Thunderstorms by William Boyd
Harris's Pompeii is somewhat a modern equivalent of Tay's Daughter of Time in as much as it is a look back at a historical event from a different perspective.
RE: Fiction vs Nonfiction - Tyler - August 25th, 2013
Nonfiction probably
RE: Fiction vs Nonfiction - SpookyZalost - April 24th, 2018
I have a pretty strong fiction preference, especially Science Fiction.
RE: Fiction vs Nonfiction - Kyng - June 11th, 2020
I'd go with non-fiction if I had to choose: I enjoy learning useless facts about all kinds of things
. Fiction is nice too, though, if I feel like an escape from the non-fiction.
RE: Fiction vs Nonfiction - Guardian - June 12th, 2020
I'm going to go with non-fiction as well.
Reading 3 books right now... and 2 are nonfiction.
The other is an alternative history... so usually if its history or alt-history related I'm good.
RE: Fiction vs Nonfiction - Darth-Apple - June 12th, 2020
What’s the difference between history and alt history?
RE: Fiction vs Nonfiction - Guardian - June 12th, 2020
(June 12th, 2020 at 12:35 PM)Darth-Apple Wrote: What’s the difference between history and alt history?
History is a retelling of actual events. Alternate History is a telling of events had a single thing event gone differently.
RE: Fiction vs Nonfiction - Darth-Apple - June 12th, 2020
boy, do we need some of those for recent history then.
RE: Fiction vs Nonfiction - Guardian - June 12th, 2020
(June 12th, 2020 at 5:51 PM)Darth-Apple Wrote: boy, do we need some of those for recent history then.
This could definitely be an interesting time period for both genres!