Whats your favourite?

Mine is Romance.

This post has been edited by Massa: Feb 14 2009, 08:07 PM

Definitely adventure, especially real-life experience and sci-fi

firedauz , ever consider the 'Adventure Game' novels?

Fantasy buff here. I guess sci-fi is counted in fantasy as well?

Choose Your Own Adventure? That was waaaay awesome when I started back then

From there on, I've moved to Lone Wolf and all sorts of stats-playability game book

Sci - fi = Fantasy , Adventure?
Both can I think.

Yeah , awesome!

oo I loved those kinda books when I was younger. Lone Wolf? What's that?

i like mystery and thriller - crime solving stuff

You must have read The Messenger , right?

This post has been edited by Massa: Jan 20 2009, 04:06 PM

Okay, so I am going to sound like a bimbo, but I like books with great covers. Embossed covers are even better! After falling in love with the cover I'll go to the synopsis part and read them, if okay, then I'll look for an excerpt of the author's work. If he/she is someone I can stand reading, I'll buy the book.

That's why I don't have a specific preference when it comes to books. I read everything. (Back of shampoo bottles included).

--> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lone_Wolf_(gamebooks)

It's a role-playing gamebook.

Think of it like Choose Your Own Adventure + game statistics (lifebar, magic bar, number of arrows, thickness of your armor, etc).

On any pages where you meet an opponent, you have to defeat the opponent in order to move on to the following page.

A simple example:
- Lets say your life now is 20, his life is 10. You start first
- You roll a dice, and if you hit 6, that means you hit him and deduct his life by 6 points (so that now his life is left as 4).
- Next is the opponent's turn; you roll the dice again and this time you get 5, which means he hits you and it deducted your life till 15 now.

So this continues on until either you win, or you lose.
If you win, with your remaining life, you continue to the following pages and on with your adventure.
If you lose, you start back from the start

The novel that I loved the most till now is The Lord of the Ring Trilogy. Wonder which category it fell into?

budakjahat , thats unique.

Its adventure I think.

my favourite type would be romance novels, followed by fantasy novels especially when it has vampires in them...

also loved Chic-Lit as well as non-fiction types... I enjoyed mystery as well....

I assume you're talking about twilight? Heh.

Chic-Lit is actually fairly enjoyable (God, damn me now). My sister loves Sophie Kinsella and when she's done with those books, she chucks them in the cabinet in my room. Every time I go back to my hometown I find new Chic-Lit waiting for me. Makes good toilet reading material.

Fantasy FTW~!

Is it because of LOTR?

LOTR books not boring meh? the words are so....
but I love the movie though!

I don't know. icyfawkes likes LOTR. Hehe.
But I like the movie too!

10 votes for Fantasy so far.
Leading the others.

I don't know what are mine. Or rather, too diverse.

I know Hitchhiker's Guide would be SciFi/Humour.
But others like Catcher In The Rye, 1984, About A Boy, I don't know what they should be classified as.

I think they fit best into "Contemporary Classics".
I like books about society though, if you get what I mean. About people.

Social Issue?

I can't choose just one. I prefer fantasy or thrillers. And chic-lit. I can't seem to finish a romance book, like a real heavy Danielle Steel one. Haha. I find them boring. I have a rather short attention span.

This post has been edited by Polar: Feb 26 2009, 05:10 PM

So many fantasy fans here.

fantasy takes the reality out of you.

I was looking for sci-fi, but guess fantay is the closest choice available.

I don't really have a set preference. I kinda lean towards the thriller, horror genre. But from time to time, I also love to read the lighter stuff, things that doesn't require me to think as much...

Romance novels are so relaxing.

literary fiction

Fantasy & Science Fiction (which are different genres BTW).

Someoen should either edit the poll to include Sci-Fi as a choice or change the Fantasy option to SF & F (Science Fiction & Fantasy).

I apologize for the missing of Sci-Fi option.

Mystery/Thrillers. I also like Historical Fiction (As in, stories set in historical times, not historical romances)

Like both fantasy and thriller. For fantasy, I like David Gemmel books. For Thriller like books by James Patterson

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I read waay to many Star Wars. It's the only thing i read. lol

I read other novels than SW as well tho, from writers such as James Follett, Alistair MacLean, and also Michael Crichton just to name a few.

I guess it's mostly fictions and thrillers that i love.

Sci-fi and fantasy. Actually I like any books that based on a game, like warcraft, perfect dark, halo, forgotten realms and warhammer 40k. Want to know more about the lore.

I like memoirs nowadays and non fiction...

mystery,thriller and historical novels

i like humorous type... after all laughter is the best medicine... but i also like adventure type... it's a good way to get into action since sometimes i feel movies are over-rated...