Books Books Books.

[EEW]

What kind of books do you like?
Give me your:
- Genre
- Title of the book you're currently reading
- Literature/Lecture, which do you prefer?
- Title of your favorite book.
- Book(s) you would like to read.

You can also explain why, but you don't have to.

Genre:
I like science fiction with a tinge of fantasy and philosophy. But I also like books about science.
Title of the book you're currently reading:
Cloud Atlas
Literature/Lecture, which do you prefer? :
Literature
Title of your favorite book:
Cloud Atlas P new favorite since last week)
Book(s) you would like to read:
The next book of Unika. But actually I just randomly pick a good sci-fi/fant book, which is told to be a gooden.

 

[Rasofy]

- Genre: Non-fiction.
- Title of the book you're currently reading:None (got some big tests coming)
- Literature/Lecture, which do you prefer? Literature.
- Title of your favorite book. Kane and Abel.
- Book(s) you would like to read. My wishlist contains these ones as a priority: 'Thinking, Fast and Slow' ; 'The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail — but Some Don't' ; 'You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other Ways You're Deluding Yourself'

 

[highlander]

Genre:
Fantasy - Usually like some combination of action and romance in general

Title of the book you're currently reading:
Captain Vorpatril's Alliance

Literature/Lecture, which do you prefer? :
Lecture

Title of your favorite book:
Mistborn - Branden Sanderson

Book(s) you would like to read:
Game of Thrones

 

[Pseudo]

Genre:
Agnsty, existential realism?

Currently reading:
Brothers karamazov

Literature

Favorite book:
Catch 22

Would like to read:

War and peace

 

[midnight rambler]

Genre:
Biography, Thriller, Mystery, sci fi, and True Crime

Currently Reading:
Gangster Squad

mix of literature and lecture

favorite book:

The Time Machine

Would like to Read:

Wiseguy

 

[cafe]

Give me your:
- Genre
Broadly speaking, trash. Not just trash, but I read a lot of paranormal romance. I also love urban fantasy and epic fantasy. I will honestly read just about any kind of novel if it's not the mostly horrid stuff they make you read in school. Now that my kids are having to read some of that stuff it makes me wonder if they are purposely trying to make kids hate reading.
- Title of the book you're currently reading
The Mane Squeeze by Shelly Laurenston. Yes, it's as awful as it sounds. It can't really be classified as anything other than mommy porn. I won't say more because it really is pretty awful. Not the worst, but still . . .
House Rules by Chloe Niel. It's urban fantasy with vampires, werewolves, elves, and magic-people. Not the best series ever, but entertaining.
Blood Trade by Faith Hunter. Urban fantasy.
Days of Blood and Starlight by Laini Taylor. YA urban fantasy. This one will probably take me awhile because there is a lot of sweet mommy porn coming out this month and last.
- Literature/Lecture, which do you prefer? Lit, pls. Wait, I think. What does that mean?
- Title of your favorite book. It's more than one book, but LOTR
- Book(s) you would like to read. The next Outlander book, the next Dresden Files book, the next Game of Thrones book, the next Kate Daniels book for starters.

I consume a lot of novels, partially because I listen to a lot of them and would have bluetooth headphones surgically implanted if I could.

I treat reading like a lot of Americans treat watching TV. It's entertainment. It's an escape. I like PNR/UR because it's fantasy, but usually shorter and less dense than epic fantasy and it's fun to think about the reality I know not really being the reality that is. Also, a lot of epic fantasy is very male-centered. PNR/UF has many issues including all kinds of screwed up relationship and sexual attitudes, etc but more often than not, women are real people instead of the prize at the end of the fight.

 

[EEW]

- Literature/Lecture, which do you prefer? Lit, pls. Wait, I think. What does that mean?

Lecture is like magazines and all that sh*t
Literature are well written books. Not 'trash' like lecture

Special taste in books - I must say... =3

P.S. For those who like lecture - sorry guys

 

[cafe]

Lecture is like magazines and all that sh*t
Literature are well written books. Not 'trash' like lecture

Special taste in books - I must say... =3

P.S. For those who like lecture - sorry guys

So can fiction be lecture and non-fiction be lit?

 

[EEW]

So can fiction be lecture and non-fiction be lit?

Well, fiction are mostly books, so it would be strange if fiction would be lecture. Non-fiction can either be lecture or literature. Books like papillon are literature, but a magazine is lecture.

On Wikipedia:

Literature (from Latin litterae (plural); letter) is the art of written work and can, in some circumstances, refer exclusively to published sources. The word literature literally means "things made from letters" and the pars pro toto term "letters" is sometimes used to signify "literature," as in the figures of speech "arts and letters" and "man of letters."Literature is commonly classified as having two major forms—fiction and non-fiction—and two major techniques—poetry and prose.

Literature may consist of texts based on factual information (journalistic or non-fiction), as well as on original imagination, such as polemical works as well as autobiography, and reflective essays as well as belles-lettres. Literature can be classified according to historical periods, genres, and political influences. The concept of genre, which earlier was limited, has broadened over the centuries. A genre consists of artistic works which fall within a certain central theme, and examples of genre include romance, mystery, crime, fantasy, erotica, and adventure, among others. Important historical periods in English literature include Old English, Middle English, the Renaissance, the 17th Century Shakespearean and Elizabethan times, the 18th Century Restoration, 19th Century Victorian, and 20th Century Modernism. Important intellectual movements that have influenced the study of literature include feminism, post-colonialism, psychoanalysis, post-structuralism, post-modernism, romanticism, and Marxism.

 

[cafe]

Well, fiction are mostly books, so it would be strange if fiction would be lecture. Non-fiction can either be lecture or literature. Books like papillon are literature, but a magazine is lecture.

On Wikipedia:

So what is lecture in this context?

 

[EEW]

So what is lecture in this context?

Well books as in magazines?
(I could be wrong? - my english = bad)

 

[cafe]

Well books as in magazines?
(I could be wrong? - my english = bad)

Okay. I only have a two-year degree so I thought maybe there was some scholarly terminology I wasn't familiar with. Maybe periodical would be closer? I don't know. I know we have folks with English degrees around here. Maybe they will know.

 

[EEW]

Okay. I only have a two-year degree so I thought maybe there was some scholarly terminology I wasn't familiar with. Maybe periodical would be closer? I don't know. I know we have folks with English degrees around here. Maybe they will know.

Phiew. Thanks for understanding

Well, for those who know the terminology, please tell

 

[Entropic]

- Genre
Interesting books. I don't think I'm drawn to any specific genre although I do like cyberpunk if I just have to pick one random genre.

- Title of the book you're currently reading
Quiet by Susan Cain.

- Literature/Lecture, which do you prefer?
Lecture.

- Title of your favorite book.
I have none actually.

- Book(s) you would like to read.
Too many to list here. I'm rather lazy on this front.

 

[Nicki]

- Genre
Nonfiction
- Title of the book you're currently reading
The Martha Rules
- Literature/Lecture, which do you prefer?
Literature
- Title of your favorite book.
Too many to choose from but Harry Potter will always have a special place in my heart
- Book(s) you would like to read.
Anything nonfiction and practical

 

[Tamske]

What do you mean, I can't select both fantasy and science fiction? And science-fantasy? And all other sort of otherworldly combinations?
Moreover, I've been hesitating to check "teen fiction" instead. I've been severely disappointed by so-called adult fiction more than I can count.