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Vampires 16 8.60%
Fantasy 85 45.70%
Sci-fi 96 51.61%
Comedy 25 13.44%
True Crime 15 8.06%
Mystery 71 38.17%
Historical Fiction 63 33.87%
Romance 20 10.75%
Christian Fiction 7 3.76%
General Fiction 46 24.73%
Biography / Autobiography 21 11.29%
Non-fiction 46 24.73%
Other (please specify) 24 12.90%
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Old 01-11-2011, 10:42 PM   #46
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Old 01-12-2011, 07:10 AM   #47
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This forum has been a real eye opener for me, though. I also assumed most sci-fi/fantasy readers were younger males. I couldn't have been more wrong.
Didn't you know? We're (apparently) all 14yo boys named Kevin. :P

Speculative fiction has always been my favourite genre, and I read pretty widely across the subgenres. I do tend to go through phases, and I've mainly been reading space opera and urban fantasy of late. However I'm currently reading Maria Snyder's Poison Study series, which is high fantasy.
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Old 01-12-2011, 03:26 PM   #48
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With the exception of Christian fiction (read some, found it about as enjoyable as surviving on a liquid diet) and true crime (used to read it when I was much younger but now that I'm older I've experienced enough pain of my own to not want to experience someone else's) I'll read most of the other genres on there.

My top ones would be sci-fi, fantasy, romance, mystery and vampires. Space opera and urban fantasy being my favorites at the moment; I usually stay away from cozy mystery series because I usually find myself dropping out of the series at about the third book. Actually, urban fantasy and space opera have been favorites of mine for over ten years, though I periodically go through phases when I read other genres. I read for escapism; I've realized that I've gradually drifted away from reading pure "literature" in the last couple decades.

And I'm definitely NOT a 14 year old boy named Kevin; he could be my nephew, though.
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Old 01-12-2011, 03:33 PM   #49
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Old 01-13-2011, 07:32 AM   #50
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General fiction, sci-fi, horror and travel writing for me.

I love travelling and reading about others doing so, too.

Sci-fi in particular for the writers imagination. Ingenious.
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Old 01-13-2011, 09:33 AM   #51
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I chose "Other" because I'm one of those snobs who claims to only read literary fiction. Not quite sure what it is is, but am clear when I am reading something that is not it
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Old 01-14-2011, 07:17 AM   #52
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I marked up general fiction, non fiction and other. I could have marked mistery also.

My tastes are rapidly changing after a brief time of reading blindness/deafness.
I want to explore new things, see if I fit with the new fashions. So I give up my old passions. Bye James, Mordeai, Philip, Bernard, Primo, Cormac, Amos, Annie, Robert, Martin, David, Italo, Len, and all the others that I did not put on the touch yet. I can always go back to you when the taste for reading is well established. Leave place to Antonia, to Jasper and to what will come next ...
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Old 01-14-2011, 04:02 PM   #53
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Old 01-14-2011, 05:41 PM   #54
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DH prefers sci-fi/fantasy stuff, and I prefer mysteries, but we both read both especially the funny ones!

We read a lot of non-fiction too, biography (both: but different kinds of people)... DIY & military (him)...history & crafts (me).
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Old 01-14-2011, 08:34 PM   #55
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I read a lot of contemporary, christian and historical romance (like, as three separate categories) plus cozy mysteries. I love my cozies.

I'm kind of a bionerd, though, and I love nonfictions about new ideas in the science field, most especially epidemiology, immunology and genetics.

Also... my one vampire series - Sookie Stackhouse.

EDIT - Forgot to add that since I have gotten a Kindle, I've been eating up some of the classics. Jane Austen, Sherlock Holmes, Jules Verne...
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Old 01-15-2011, 12:37 PM   #56
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On "Other" I would have to put books by Dean Koontz and Terry Pratchett.

I don't like much fantasy (except Elizabeth Moon) and strangely I don't consider the Discworld series by Pratchett as fantasy???? Is there anyone else that feels the same? I think that I just like Pratchett's writing and characters so much that I accept the "magic" as an incidental part of the story.
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Old 01-16-2011, 07:44 AM   #57
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Other for me. And that would be Horror.
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Old 01-17-2011, 07:45 AM   #58
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Christian... fiction? o_O What's that? Raptor Jesus?
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I read a lot of contemporary, christian and historical romance (like, as three separate categories) plus cozy mysteries. I love my cozies.

I'm kind of a bionerd, though, and I love nonfictions about new ideas in the science field, most especially epidemiology, immunology and genetics.

Also... my one vampire series - Sookie Stackhouse.

EDIT - Forgot to add that since I have gotten a Kindle, I've been eating up some of the classics. Jane Austen, Sherlock Holmes, Jules Verne...
That was my one vampire series, too, so I didn't vote for "vampire", although, as a Buffy fan, I was tempted.
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Funny!

I imagine it's fiction that focus on "Christian" themes, that take place primaily in Christian environments and where at least the main characters are practising christians. And then I imagine the stories to be somewhat happy-sappy and perhaps also romantic
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