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View Poll Results: Favourite types of reading (you can tick several)
Biography 25 19.69%
Drama 11 8.66%
History 46 36.22%
Philosophy 15 11.81%
Poetry 6 4.72%
Politics 7 5.51%
Religion 11 8.66%
Science 33 25.98%
Fiction: Classics 60 47.24%
Fiction Crime 57 44.88%
Fiction Fantasy 67 52.76%
Fiction Historical 42 33.07%
Fiction:Modern Literary 38 29.92%
Fiction: Romantic 22 17.32%
Fiction: Sci Fi 82 64.57%
Everything above 1 0.79%
Other 28 22.05%
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Old 06-17-2011, 01:31 PM   #31
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Old 06-17-2011, 02:48 PM   #32
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I don't understand how 'classics' can figure in as a unique genre. All good books in every genre will eventually become a classic. Is HG Wells any more classic than S King or A Rice in the field of speculative fiction? I always thought being a classic was a function age and endurance.
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I don't understand how 'classics' can figure in as a unique genre. All good books in every genre will eventually become a classic. Is HG Wells any more classic than S King or A Rice in the field of speculative fiction? I always thought being a classic was a function age and endurance.
If "Gay" or "African American" can be unique genres, then "Classics" definitely can. Of course, I think that writing can be multi-genre, and I believe I don't have to pay attention to every genre.

Oh, and I, too, had to use "other" for horror. Figured I might as well
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If "Gay" or "African American" can be unique genres, then "Classics" definitely can. Of course, I think that writing can be multi-genre, and I believe I don't have to pay attention to every genre.

Oh, and I, too, had to use "other" for horror. Figured I might as well
I hear what you're saying but I agree that "Classic" really is a function of time, and endurance.

As for "gay" and "African American", that's a bit different. My step-mom went out of her way to make sure my sisters and I had "African American" or Black (as I am originally Caribbean) dolls and stories when we were little, so that we could see and have representatives of "us". That label doesn't affect my buying habits now as an adult (either for myself or my kids who are multiracial), but I understand why it is there.
I feel that need or want of representation is the same for the GLBT community and any other section of people who have been considered or treated as a "minority".
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