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Old 02-06-2015, 04:50 PM   #101
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Originally Posted by Hamlet53 View Post
Not to seem to pick on HomeInMyShoes who has some excellent ideas here, but . . .

So Fiction is supposedly a separate genre from Romance, Thriller/Suspense, Humor, Fantasy, Mystery/Crime, Horror, & Science Fiction? Silly me I would have said that seven latter are just genres within fiction. That and non-Fiction could include so many genres, eg. Biography, History, Science, Social Science, Philosophy, to list a few. But then about half of what I read is non-Fiction. I also realize that my personal preferences are not likely to please the majority of book club members.
I'm worth picking on and it's a valid point and good question.

They are just genres within fiction. Fiction was the last category I added to my list. I was looking through all the books I've read worth sharing in the last few years and there was no place to nominate most of them. They are non-genre fiction. Without plain fiction we are missing a large portion of books out there. I am hypocritical in that respect. Why fiction and non-fiction mean different things. One is about including and one is about excluding? I can only argue personal preference. Your preference or anyone else's is no more wrong or right than my preference.

I want the book club to be fiction and not non-fiction. Some may want more non-fiction than fiction. Which is where Issybird's point about subgroups and categories makes a lot of sense. I might go with four votes per person, but that's a statistical argument based on an assumption of sample size and what I think I know about the group (all of which could be wrong.)

I see lots of potential non-fiction categories: history, biography, self-help, health, religion, philosophy, cooking, etc. being viable categories. We make guesses, but I don't think we're a religion and cooking bookclub. Maybe we are though, maybe that's what is wrong. I am perfectly willing to brainstorm and be mocked and be wrong. I know I am one of those weird people that just reads plain fiction and am a complete geek about a few splinter subjects. Who here wants to read about information and classification, urban planning, music, math, and human-computer interaction?
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