What kinds of fiction do you read?

[parcel]

So, what kinds of fiction do you read? Is there a passage in a novel you reading atm which describes an idea, person or relationship you think is interesting, which could relate to a particular type or intertype relationship?

I'm currently reading Terry Goodkind's Wizard's First Rule. Here is a passage describing a connection between an EII and an IEI (I think).

He looked into her eyes a long moment. "You too are a very rare person, Kahlan Amnell. There are not many who would have stood as you did."
She did not blush, but smiled again. It was an odd sort of smile, a special smile, not showing any teeth. Her lips were pressed together, as one would do when taking another into one's confidence. Her eyes sparkled. It was a smile of sharing. (18)

[Gilly]

Herman Hesse.

[Animal]

Roald Dahl (he wrote more than just children's books), Kurt Vonegut, Jr., Robert Penn Warren... now that I think about it, I don't read all that much fiction anymore. Mostly poetry.

[parcel]

Mostly poetry.

Any particular author(s) or just a variety?

[force my hand]

I've been a huge fantasy buff over the past few years. I try to round out my experience with classics, and hip modern fiction, but I like fantasy best. Lately I've been exploring science fiction as well.

[silverchris9]

Poets: Walt Whitman, John Keats, Wallace Stevens, recently into Arthur Rimbaud as well, some Auden, Fernando Pessoa, some William Wordsworth, Henri Cole is very good although I'm not very well-read in his poetry, Wilfred Owen is really good too, and so is Yeats.

Playwrights: Shakespeare, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, and Ibsen (@octupuslove, I love Equus too!)

Novelists: I don't read many novels but I'm enjoying Jane Austen, and I enjoyed Kafka's Metamorphosis.