Quote:
Originally Posted by issybird
OK, I'll bite! Your mission, should you choose to accept it:
My favorite reading is history. I like the interplay of personalities and events. I read a lot of war history in the sense of the political, economic, social and cultural aspects of war. I don't like the carnage part and military strategy in itself does nothing for me; I think at least in part because spatial imagery is not a strong point.
However, history tends to be dense and I'm not always up to it evenings during the week when I'm tired, so my reading is probably a little less than half non-fic/fic. I don't read genre fiction. There was a time when I binge-read mysteries, but I was surprised to have to acknowledge to myself a few years ago that they no longer interested me. I think I got tired of the formulas.
For fiction, I like litfic, especially from the first half of the 20th century, and especially British. I like humor, both black humor and comedies of manners, again especially British, but not limited to that in either case.
My sense of sci-fi is along the lines of, "The Qmghpt spattlefoxed the vorplotz." I'm also not at all fond of the image that has women whose space costumes cling to every curve and barely cover their keisters drape themselves helplessly on the forceful and intelligent manly men who wear something, y'know, functional and comfortable?
I suspect that if I were to like a subset of the genre, it would be sci-fi where the world bore a reasonable resemblance to the one we inhabit.
I loved Firefly! Perhaps I'm not irredeemable?
|
Okay, I am thinking that you might like some epic SF... perhaps C.S. Friedman's (didn't I mention her earlier? )
In Conquest Born, maybe Frank Herbert's Dune series, or C.J. Cherryh's Invader series. Cherryh also has a couple other series that may be of interest: Chanur, and maybe Cyteen.
On the fantasy side, try J.R.R. Tolkien's
The Silmarillion, which is as much a historical text as you can get.
For the humorous side, I think someone mentioned Doug Adams, and Keith Laumer's Retief of the RDC. Also, perhaps less related,
Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm a Supervillian books are downright hilarious.
Sent from my SM-T230NU using Tapatalk