What kind of Fiction do you like?

[vesstheastralsilky]

I have been a big reader but generally I don't read fiction per se. I have read much that could be considered speculation.

When I have enjoyed fiction, it tends to be from Antoine De Saint Exupery, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Douglas Adams. These are the only adult fiction writers who have ever managed to hold my attention so far. I am interested in their style of writing more than plot development. I would never want to read crime or horror novels. I enjoy young children's books very much.

How about you?

[Aster]

Romance/Fantasy, lol
Historical
Gothic
YA & Adult


Add all those together and I’m in heaven.


The only kind I don’t really like is science fiction. Never really read western either. My grandma always listened to crime on audiobook driving around and I was never into it.


I also like Virginia Woolf, but I feel like reading her books is a chore. I prefer Daphne Du Maurier. She’s probably my favorite author. Shirley Jackson I like. I read a lot, too. Probably 85% of it is fiction and the other is memoirs.

[huiheiwufhawriuhg]

Psychological drama, dark fantasy, thriller

[ouronis]

Epic Fantasy (Got, WoT, etc) & Sci-Fi

Those are really the only book genres in general I can become engrossed in.

[Adam Strange]

I like science fiction. I read a lot of it.

Here's one: Think Blue, Count Two, by Cordwainer Smith, IEI

"She stood, utterly forlorn, in the middle of the room. She wished that she could weep. What use had she been on the trip?"

https://www.gutenberg.ca/ebooks/smit...ttwo-00-e.html

[ContractedCriminalboy]

Historical, soft scifi, low fantasy, high fantasy, in that order. Stuff from Mishima, Diestoevsky, Dumas, LRH, Heinlein, etc
Favorites being Crime and Punishment and Runaway Horses.

[LukaDoncic]

The Kardashev scale, pumping up and wiring lands to omega breaching havens of eccentric wormhole combustion to rage an inferno of ever increasing metaphysical powers, enough to rip the iceberg and stand over hell.