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Originally Posted by afa
Fiction by itself is not a genre. It's... well, I don't know how to describe it, except that anything which isn't 'real' is fiction. Basically, all books can be classified as either Fiction or Non-fiction, which is rather vague. So when you say, "I read fiction," that doesn't tell me much, because I assume you read fiction for leisure.
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Except there are a lot of people who never read fiction. They only read research, science and biographies and such for pleasure.
(Which I didn't quote well, but talking about the fact that you
assume I read "Fiction" and that's what I"m responding to.)
I hang out at a on-line book swap, and see them there quite a bit. Once you say you read "Fiction" or your bookshelf (for trade) has only "Fiction", then that saves a lot of time right there, because they won't be interested at all.
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Originally Posted by afa
But at least "Rock" gives me *some* inkling that you like a certain kind of music, as opposed to others (Rap, R&B, Jazz, etc.).
Like with any category, the descriptions are never perfect. But it helps to get the message across as it tells the listener *something* about what kind of books you read. Humans tend to like grouping things.
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Sure, but "Speculative" still doesn't mean anything to me yet, other than it covers the same stories that "Fiction" does.
It's how the stories group separately from all the others that I'm still not catching.