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View Poll Results: Do you prefure to read fiction or non fiction
Fiction 15 62.50%
Non Fiction 8 33.33%
Hate reading 1 4.17%
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Old 11-30-2007, 02:54 AM
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What do you prefure to read?

Just a question do you prefer to read fiction or non fiction and why?
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Old 11-30-2007, 02:58 AM
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I prefer reading fiction; I am not really a fantasy kind of person. I love reading about things that have accrued and why they happened. I analyze things and try to not make the same mistakes as people in my pasts have.
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Old 11-30-2007, 04:26 AM
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I prefer fiction. Sci-fi fantasy to be exact. David eddings and anne bishop are two of my favorite authors.


BTW: I think you meant non-fiction, which is things that actually happened.
and I believe accrued=occured
I believe that is what you meant to say. I am not criticising, just helping you out. no offense intended.
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Old 11-30-2007, 04:45 AM
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I prefer reading fiction; I am not really a fantasy kind of person.
I’m confused. Do you mean Non-fiction?

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the class of literature comprising works of imaginative narration, esp. in prose form.
I’m a non-fiction book kind of guy. I read mostly about politics (it’s also my major (just 3 classes to go!)). I prefer fiction in my movies (Unless they’re documentaries).
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Old 11-30-2007, 09:26 AM
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I prefer fiction in my spare time. Particularly I have been on a classic literature kick because back in high school when we read some of these I was a cliff notes kid. Currently I am reading "The Brothers Karamazov" and it is becoming one of my favorites.
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Old 11-30-2007, 11:31 AM
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Fiction for books. Most of my non fiction reading is articles, essays, and that kind of stuff.

I read (Non school) books for leisure, and thus I like fiction.
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Though I do like non-fiction, I think fiction, in particular fantasy, is just as, or more, viable than non-fiction. In fiction there are no boundaries that cannot be crossed. Any issue is fare game. Certain aspects of religion, politics, society that are not usually appropriate for non-fiction, are the domain of fiction. And you get a good story, too.
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Old 11-30-2007, 12:41 PM
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Uhm, there is no choic for both, so I can not vote. I alternate. One fiction, one no-fiction.

Best of both worlds

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I read and i don't disctriminate as to what.
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Old 11-30-2007, 05:27 PM
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…I just remembered that my favorite book is fiction… 1984
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