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Favourite genre outside fantasy and science fiction?
« on: February 02, 2021, 12:17:29 PM »
I’m guessing everybody going to say romance.
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Re: Favourite genre outside fantasy and science fiction?
« Reply #1 on: February 02, 2021, 01:05:35 PM »
Not me hehe

To be fair, my latest attempts at "normal fiction" have been seriously bad, so I guess I'll say historical fiction.
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Re: Favourite genre outside fantasy and science fiction?
« Reply #2 on: February 02, 2021, 01:34:32 PM »
Cold War era fiction
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Re: Favourite genre outside fantasy and science fiction?
« Reply #3 on: February 02, 2021, 02:17:02 PM »
I don't really read much fiction outside of fantasy, but it's probably thrillers for me. Or murder mysteries.
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Re: Favourite genre outside fantasy and science fiction?
« Reply #4 on: February 02, 2021, 03:47:25 PM »
horror
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Re: Favourite genre outside fantasy and science fiction?
« Reply #5 on: February 02, 2021, 04:15:21 PM »
There are two categories of books reference and fiction. Prove me wrong.
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Re: Favourite genre outside fantasy and science fiction?
« Reply #6 on: February 02, 2021, 04:42:19 PM »
Mystery and suspense for me.
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Re: Favourite genre outside fantasy and science fiction?
« Reply #7 on: February 02, 2021, 05:04:04 PM »
Historical Murder Mysteries, followed by general Crime/Mystery and general Historical

Sci-Fi smells of wee and should be banished to another part of the book emporiums.
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Re: Favourite genre outside fantasy and science fiction?
« Reply #8 on: February 03, 2021, 01:52:46 AM »
I will oblige and say "romance". :D Though honestly, I prefer romance with speculative elements, or at least strong historical worldbuilding. Similarly, I don't mind a mystery with strong spec elements (and a nice romance element) but I don't know if "I like these genres in speculative fiction" counts properly as "what non-speculative genre do you like?" :D

Quote from: Rostum on February 02, 2021, 04:15:21 PM
There are two categories of books reference and fiction. Prove me wrong.

I mean, you're not wrong, but it's also not helpful for finding more of the thing that you like to read.
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Re: Favourite genre outside fantasy and science fiction?
« Reply #9 on: February 03, 2021, 05:05:38 AM »
I tend to make forays outside of the genre into biography and historical.
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Re: Favourite genre outside fantasy and science fiction?
« Reply #10 on: February 03, 2021, 06:00:57 AM »
Crime/Detective and Mystery.
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Re: Favourite genre outside fantasy and science fiction?
« Reply #11 on: February 03, 2021, 09:15:35 AM »
Hah, I don't read anything else besides fantasy/ scifi or YA fantasy/ scifi, hahah. Not fiction at the very least. I used to read Historical Fiction but I think my time for that had passed. For non-fiction I read texts on laws and anything random that could prove useful.
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