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Started by Sheilbh, April 28, 2014, 05:10:14 PM

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What proportion of fiction and non-fiction do you read?

No fiction; all non-fiction
1 (2.6%)
1/4 fiction; 3/4 non-fiction
12 (30.8%)
50-50
15 (38.5%)
3/4 fiction; 1/4 non-fiction
11 (28.2%)
All fiction; no non-fiction
0 (0%)

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Sheilbh

April 28, 2014, 05:10:14 PM
I was chatting to some people recently and realised I was the only man there who read both fiction and non-fiction. I'd always thought that was kind-of normal but apparently not.

So I was just wondering what's the rough proportion of your reading.
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garbon

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April 28, 2014, 05:11:35 PM
I'd say even split.
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Barrister

#2
April 28, 2014, 05:11:57 PM
3/4 non-fiction I guess.
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grumbler

#3
April 28, 2014, 05:12:31 PM
Quote from: garbon on April 28, 2014, 05:11:35 PM
I'd say even split.
Ditto.  I'm probably in the process of reading 2 fiction and 2 non-fiction books on any given day.
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crazy canuck

#4
April 28, 2014, 05:14:42 PM
I read almost exclusively non fiction but every once in a while a fiction title catches my interest.

Malthus

#5
April 28, 2014, 05:15:13 PM
I'm about fifty-fifty myself. This board though leans heavily towards history readers, I suspect ...
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

Sheilbh

#6
April 28, 2014, 05:19:26 PM
Quote from: Malthus on April 28, 2014, 05:15:13 PM
I'm about fifty-fifty myself. This board though leans heavily towards history readers, I suspect ...
True. But I don't think it'd necessarily skew things. I was surprised that none of the guys there really read many novels and all the girls said that I was unusual because in their experience men prefer non-fiction :mellow:
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Agelastus

#7
April 28, 2014, 05:24:44 PM
Quote from: Sheilbh on April 28, 2014, 05:19:26 PM
Quote from: Malthus on April 28, 2014, 05:15:13 PM
I'm about fifty-fifty myself. This board though leans heavily towards history readers, I suspect ...
True. But I don't think it'd necessarily skew things. I was surprised that none of the guys there really read many novels and all the girls said that I was unusual because in their experience men prefer non-fiction :mellow:

Odd. I skew towards the fiction myself despite my reasonably expansive library of volumes on history.
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mongers

#8
April 28, 2014, 05:25:49 PM
Not too keen on the place, rather a dull commuter town now.
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DGuller

#9
April 28, 2014, 05:28:51 PM
 :hmm: Indeterminate.

Admiral Yi

#10
April 28, 2014, 05:31:17 PM
90% non.

Admiral Yi

#11
April 28, 2014, 05:31:48 PM
BTW, your thread title is brutally uninformative.

Josephus

#12
April 28, 2014, 05:53:24 PM
Quote from: mongers on April 28, 2014, 05:25:49 PM
Not too keen on the place, rather a dull commuter town now.

heh!
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Capetan Mihali

#13
April 28, 2014, 05:53:45 PM
Closer to 3/4 non-, I'd say.  It has fluctuated over the years, but the trend recently has been towards non-fiction, away from heavy novel-reading; although I've had different fiction resurgences in the meantime (detective fiction, contemporary short stories, etc).  However, I've always read both, since I was a teenager at least.  I don't draw a sharp boundary in my mind.
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Razgovory

#14
April 28, 2014, 06:07:48 PM
I went with 3/4ths non-fiction.  Non-fiction interests me more then fiction does.  I've been trying to read more fiction though.
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