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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%)

Total Members Voted: 39

Ed Anger

The problem with fiction for me is that I don't impulse buy anymore. I stick with authors I know(glen cook, Abercrombie, David Drake) and am totally out of touch with newer stuff.
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Maladict

So far this year, 6 fiction and 9 non-fiction.

That's more fiction than I thought it would be, but mostly classics.

jimmy olsen

Usually fiction, but I still read nonfiction now and then.
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Zanza

I guess like 3/4 fiction.

Gups

2/3 fiction by book, 50/50 by volume.

70% of my non-fic is hiistory or historical biography.

About 70% of my fic is post-war, although the availability of free classics on kindle is pushing me towards the Shelf approach.

Grey Fox

Almost exclusively Fiction. The non-fiction are usually Hockey History books.
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Habbaku

Practically all non-fiction.  Maybe 1 in 10 is fiction.  Novels just don't do it for me the way a good history does, though some notable exceptions are there (Yiddish Policeman's Union, for example).
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The Brain

Mostly non-fiction. 80%?

Please don't send me to reading gaol.
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Ed Anger

Quote from: The Brain on April 29, 2014, 08:21:14 AM
Mostly non-fiction. 80%?

Please don't send me to reading gaol.

You are sentenced to read Ayn Rand.
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The Brain

Quote from: Ed Anger on April 29, 2014, 08:24:45 AM
Quote from: The Brain on April 29, 2014, 08:21:14 AM
Mostly non-fiction. 80%?

Please don't send me to reading gaol.

You are sentenced to read Ayn Rand.

If she writes as well as she looks... :wub:
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

Ideologue

That's non-fiction.  That's what the 50s were like.  Eisenhower taxed people and made them pay for massive stretches of concrete in violation of their rights to not be taxed for anything.
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