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June 27th, 2013 at 11:45 PM
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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June 27th, 2013 at 11:53 PM
I do like fiction, but usually when I read nowadays, it's out of a manual or a history book
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June 27th, 2013 at 11:53 PM
LOL, same here.
June 28th, 2013 at 3:34 PM
I prefer fiction... although like the two above me, I find myself reading manuals or history books more often than others
July 22nd, 2013 at 5:23 PM
Ikea manuals are the most entertaining form of manuals.
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August 8th, 2013 at 9:24 PM
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.
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August 24th, 2013 at 10:11 PM
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.
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August 25th, 2013 at 3:04 AM
Nonfiction probably
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April 24th, 2018 at 9:56 AM
I have a pretty strong fiction preference, especially Science Fiction.
"I reject your reality and subsitute my own." - Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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June 11th, 2020 at 8:09 PM
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.
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June 12th, 2020 at 12:14 PM
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.
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June 12th, 2020 at 12:35 PM
What’s the difference between history and alt history?
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June 12th, 2020 at 5:21 PM
(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.
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June 12th, 2020 at 5:51 PM
boy, do we need some of those for recent history then.
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June 12th, 2020 at 7:13 PM
(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!
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