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Old 07-07-2017, 07:20 PM #1
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Default What type of books do you predominately read?

I was just looking at my kindle stuff and its 100% factual, mainly historical and scientific with a cosmology/physics bent. There is a mildly worrying trend on the Nazi front, historically of course .

What are your trends?

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Autobiographies of C-List British TV personalities
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Am a blind follower of stuff that gets rave reviews by the Grauniad but otherwise trying to get through cult classics atm (a collection of Vonnegut's novels right now)
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I'm not proud of it but typical teenagery (is that even a word?) books.

Twilight Series, Harry Potter, Percy Jackson, Mortal Instruments, Me Before You, Hunger Games, anything by John Green.

I need to start reading more classic pieces of literature. I did get about halfway through reading Pride and Prejudice, should carry on with that really.
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Not read a book in a good while, but now I can see ok I will catch up in the winter reading autobiographies that have been stacking up.
A rather good Sam Toft gathering dust on the shelf as well.
Hubby keeps bringing me random paperbacks in as well.
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Not read a book in a good while, but now I can see ok I will catch up in the winter reading autobiographies that have been stacking up.
A rather good Sam Toft gathering dust on the shelf as well.
Hubby keeps bringing me random paperbacks in as well.
not mr smudgie and the 50 shades attempt AGAIN?
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Classics like Austin, Dickens,Bronte.Steinbeck.
Crime thrillers like Jo Nesbo, Ian Rankin,Patricia Cornwell, James Patterson.
Novels with a paranormal twist. Stephen King. Dean Koontz. Guillermo Del Toro.John Connolly.
But when it comes right down to it, I would read anything rather than not read.
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The ones on TV without text.
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Biographies definitely.

Also anything that is a bit dark/odd.
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I normalltmy dont read though I get them as audio books
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Like Scott does


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Fiction mostly, I can't abide 99.9% of biographies.
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What even about dead musicians?

Like the book by Jan Gaye
Marvin Gaye's 2nd wife.

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Mainly political.

Jess Phillips' Everywoman
Nick Cleggs' Between the Extreme

are the ones I've been reading recently
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Anything from The Origin Of Species to The Hunger Games, I don't really have a preference of genre, I'll read anything these days when I get round to it.

I am reading fiction at the moment, Ready Player One, it has a film coming out next year, I believe, directed by Steven Spielberg, I hope it does the book justice. I'm enjoying it.
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Chick lit celeb biographies and sometimes some fantasy
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All manner of stuff. I've got about ten books by my bed at any one time, fiction, non-fiction, books of lists, books to do with work... I also read on the Tube. The only thing I really don't read is romance.
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