thanks for your response. I would say reading sheet music is "note worthy"
fiction or nonfiction, which would you rather read?
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Fiction. Specifically suspense genre books from authors like Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Robert Ludlum, Tom Clancy, and Stephen Hunter, to name just a few. There's many more authors in my library of favorites, but if I had to pick 5 fiction writers, it'd be them.
My library is filled with lots of non-fiction also, particularly personal accounts and factual recreations of events, such as war (Vietnam was always a passion and takes up a large section, most of them personal accounts), or the Everest disaster in '96 ("Into Thin Air", read it 3 times long before a movie was made about it), or a book by the same author, Jon Krakauer, titled "Into The Wild", of Christopher McCandless, the guy who ditched all his money and possessions and lived a vagabond lifestyle, ending up dying in an old schoolbus in the middle of the vast Alaskan wilderness after one heck of a journey, recreated by interviews of those who encountered him)...
I definitely like reading both categories, but would have to choose fiction.
Oct 6, 2015
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Can't I have both? 
I read just about anything, probably more fiction than non-fiction. I've read Dickens and Victor Hugo in English, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky and Pushkin in Russian. Russian literature can be depressing so don't read too much at once.
sirrichardburton wrote:
When i was a lad most of my reading was fiction. Once i reached adulthood i found that it was very rare that i would read fiction. [Same here.]
I was just curious what the other players here prefer? Fiction or nonfiction? A few examples of your favorite books would also be nice.
"En Route to Global Occupation" Kah
"The Light of Love" Patricia Devlin
Oct 7, 2015
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sirrichardburton написал:
yes u may have both!
Thank you 
In the non-fiction category I read a lot of history. In fiction my favorites are mostly mysteries and spy stories.
TheronG12 wrote:
I read a lot of history.
I'm not much into war stories, but this one on the Vietnam war was interesting enough.
Oct 8, 2015
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I'd never heard of it before, I'll look it up. I highly recommend "The Thieves of Baghdad" by Matthew Bogdanos.
Joseph-S wrote:
TheronG12 wrote:
I read a lot of history.
I'm not much into war stories, but this one on the Vietnam war was interesting enough.
Have it, but with a different cover:
Oct 8, 2015
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btw when i used to read fiction it was mainly classic sci-fi such as H.G. Well's "invisible man" or stephen king's horror stories (such as "Salem's Lot") . Strangely i could never get into Lovecraft's works but i very much like many authors who was inspired by him. I also used to read horror short stories.
When i was a lad most of my reading was fiction,usually sci-fi or adventure of some type. Once i reached adulthood i found that it was very rare that i would read fiction. Usually i would read history books and biographies.An example of a book i very much enjoyed is Fawn Brody's biography of Sir Richard Burton titled "The Devil Drives." Another example is the massive book on Nazi Germany called "The Rise and Fall of the 3rd Reich". I was just curious what the other players here prefer? Fiction or nonfiction? A few examples of your favorite books would also be nice.