01-15-2008, 08:31 PM
01-15-2008, 09:10 PM
If it's called a book, I want to read it. Manga, fiction, non-fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, western, horror, mystery, history, magazines, and on rare occasion, romance novels. I just love books. 
01-15-2008, 10:37 PM
I sort of rue that these polls are radio buttons, because rarely is only one answer sufficient. I also enjoy poetry and other creative expression, though I mostly read nonfiction.
01-16-2008, 02:45 AM
grizeldatee Wrote:
I sort of rue that these polls are radio buttons, because rarely is only one answer sufficient. I also enjoy poetry and other creative expression, though I mostly read nonfiction.
I vote for an 'all of the above, plus absolutely anything else with words' button!! 
01-16-2008, 04:57 PM
As Thomas Jefferson famously said, "I cannot live without books."
I mostly read non-fiction books, most about AS, but also a bit of feminism/porn studies. I like mysteries and science fiction, but am not a romance reader. This is stereotypical Aspie. I was intrigued, however, to read in Attwood's Complete Guide that young Aspie girls can learn a helluva lot of social stuff by reading fiction when they are young. I think that is exactly true in my case. I can't learn that sh*t from watching, and it for damn sure doesn't come naturally, but if I read an entire book then it just barely begins to make sense. Judy Blume probably taught me everything I know about interpersonal relations!
I mostly read non-fiction books, most about AS, but also a bit of feminism/porn studies. I like mysteries and science fiction, but am not a romance reader. This is stereotypical Aspie. I was intrigued, however, to read in Attwood's Complete Guide that young Aspie girls can learn a helluva lot of social stuff by reading fiction when they are young. I think that is exactly true in my case. I can't learn that sh*t from watching, and it for damn sure doesn't come naturally, but if I read an entire book then it just barely begins to make sense. Judy Blume probably taught me everything I know about interpersonal relations!
01-16-2008, 06:50 PM
Tigger_the_Wing Wrote:
I vote for an 'all of the above, plus absolutely anything else with words' button!!
I completely agree with you I love to read!
01-24-2008, 04:16 PM
Books books books, I love books! I prefer non fiction, I like reading psychology and mystical stuff, medicine and alternative health, anything about autism, bipolar, mental health etc, but I also like some fiction, Memoirs of a Geisha I loved and I like fantasy novels and some poetry.
01-24-2008, 10:08 PM
Stories, definitely. Storytelling is my biggest obsession.
I tend to dislike true stories, but there are a few exceptions. I loved the Great Brain books when I was little.
Factual books can be interesting, especially about psychology. I'm also interested in medical things and anything that contains information that I could use in a story.
There are some poems I like, but I would rather listen to them being read than actually read them.
Recently, I've been really into manga, but this is mostly because manga is usually a series that you can get into, and usually has the kind of storyline I like, compared to novels. I prefer the written word, as I'm much more comfortable with it and I like to read out loud, but I just can't find any novel series that interest me. (I don't like single books as much, because I devour them in one day and then - whoosh - it's gone. I like stories that last a while.)
I tend to dislike true stories, but there are a few exceptions. I loved the Great Brain books when I was little.
Factual books can be interesting, especially about psychology. I'm also interested in medical things and anything that contains information that I could use in a story.
There are some poems I like, but I would rather listen to them being read than actually read them.
Recently, I've been really into manga, but this is mostly because manga is usually a series that you can get into, and usually has the kind of storyline I like, compared to novels. I prefer the written word, as I'm much more comfortable with it and I like to read out loud, but I just can't find any novel series that interest me. (I don't like single books as much, because I devour them in one day and then - whoosh - it's gone. I like stories that last a while.)
01-25-2008, 12:58 AM
I only read non-fiction information books. Stories (even true ones) are unable to hold my interest and difficult for me to understand because I can't effectively separate the facts from the "filler".
01-25-2008, 05:43 PM
Ooh, I love reading. I go through phases where I read around a book a week. I tend to swap and change styles. Sometimes I'll read fiction, this can vary from forensic investigations/crime thriller type stuff, to political thriller/intrigue, to chicklit, to just general contemporary fiction. I like to read biographies too. And also some factual/socio-political stuff.
I've just finished a novel called Restless by William Boyd, which was about two female characters, mother and daughter, as the daughter finds out her mother was a spy for the British during WWII, and there's contemporary and flashback sections. I thought it was quite good.
I'm now reading The Righteous Men by Sam Bourne, I think it's airport/beach type fiction, in the thriller/mystery vein. I think it's marketed at people who've read Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code (which incidentally I thought was terribly badly written, if you haven't yet, don't bother). But I love trying to figure out the twists and turns before they're revealed.
I'm also half way through reading Mr Muo's Travelling Couch, but kept losing track of the plot as I was reading it in bed while falling asleep. About a Chinese chap who's trying to save his first love and spring her from prison by bribing someone with the charms of a virgin... except he doesn't know any virgins and he's hunting for one... it's quite quirky.
And I've also started reading a book about Deep Throat (of the Watergate scandal fame, not the other famous Deep Throat of that era!).
I have a huge pile of books to read. I keep going into bookstores and instead of just buying a new book to read everytime I've finished one, I'll go in, start browsing and pick up half a dozen.
I've just finished a novel called Restless by William Boyd, which was about two female characters, mother and daughter, as the daughter finds out her mother was a spy for the British during WWII, and there's contemporary and flashback sections. I thought it was quite good.
I'm now reading The Righteous Men by Sam Bourne, I think it's airport/beach type fiction, in the thriller/mystery vein. I think it's marketed at people who've read Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code (which incidentally I thought was terribly badly written, if you haven't yet, don't bother). But I love trying to figure out the twists and turns before they're revealed.
I'm also half way through reading Mr Muo's Travelling Couch, but kept losing track of the plot as I was reading it in bed while falling asleep. About a Chinese chap who's trying to save his first love and spring her from prison by bribing someone with the charms of a virgin... except he doesn't know any virgins and he's hunting for one... it's quite quirky.
And I've also started reading a book about Deep Throat (of the Watergate scandal fame, not the other famous Deep Throat of that era!).
I have a huge pile of books to read. I keep going into bookstores and instead of just buying a new book to read everytime I've finished one, I'll go in, start browsing and pick up half a dozen.
01-25-2008, 05:45 PM
EnglishLulu Wrote:
Ooh, I love reading.  I go through phases where I read around a book a week.  I tend to swap and change styles.  Sometimes I'll read fiction, this can vary from forensic investigations/crime thriller type stuff, to political thriller/intrigue, to chicklit, to just general contemporary fiction.  I like to read biographies too.  And also some factual/socio-political stuff.
I've just finished a novel called Restless by William Boyd, which was about two female characters, mother and daughter, as the daughter finds out her mother isn't who she thought she was, her name's invented, she was a spy for the British during WWII, and there's contemporary and flashback sections.  I thought it was quite good.
I'm now reading The Righteous Men by Sam Bourne, I think it's airport/beach type fiction, in the thriller/mystery vein.  I think it's marketed at people who've read Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code (which incidentally I thought was terribly badly written, if you haven't yet, don't bother).  But I love trying to figure out the twists and turns before they're revealed.
I'm also half way through reading Mr Muo's Travelling Couch, but kept losing track of the plot as I was reading it in bed while falling asleep.  About a Chinese chap who's trying to save his first love and spring her from prison by bribing someone with the charms of a virgin... except he doesn't know any virgins and he's hunting for one... it's quite quirky.
And I've also started reading a book about Deep Throat (of the Watergate scandal fame, not the other famous Deep Throat of that era!).
I have a huge pile of books to read.  I keep going into bookstores and instead of just buying a new book to read everytime I've finished one, I'll go in, start browsing and pick up half a dozen.
I've just finished a novel called Restless by William Boyd, which was about two female characters, mother and daughter, as the daughter finds out her mother isn't who she thought she was, her name's invented, she was a spy for the British during WWII, and there's contemporary and flashback sections.  I thought it was quite good.
I'm now reading The Righteous Men by Sam Bourne, I think it's airport/beach type fiction, in the thriller/mystery vein.  I think it's marketed at people who've read Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code (which incidentally I thought was terribly badly written, if you haven't yet, don't bother).  But I love trying to figure out the twists and turns before they're revealed.
I'm also half way through reading Mr Muo's Travelling Couch, but kept losing track of the plot as I was reading it in bed while falling asleep.  About a Chinese chap who's trying to save his first love and spring her from prison by bribing someone with the charms of a virgin... except he doesn't know any virgins and he's hunting for one... it's quite quirky.
And I've also started reading a book about Deep Throat (of the Watergate scandal fame, not the other famous Deep Throat of that era!).
I have a huge pile of books to read.  I keep going into bookstores and instead of just buying a new book to read everytime I've finished one, I'll go in, start browsing and pick up half a dozen.
01-25-2008, 11:52 PM
EnglishLulu Wrote:
I've just finished a novel called Restless by William Boyd, which was about two female characters, mother and daughter, as the daughter finds out her mother was a spy for the British during WWII, and there's contemporary and flashback sections. I thought it was quite good.
I've read that too, sometime last year. What I found especially intriguing was that there was a lot of detail in the "contemporary"* sections, which at first reading might seem superfluous / irrelevant - but when I reached the end it dawned on me that maybe the whole idea was for you the reader to process all this information as a spy would. In a similar way The Dispossessed by Ursula Guin gets the reader to think as an interplanetary physicist.
*The "contemporary" scenes (as in the ones told from the POV of the daughter) are actually set in 1976, some 30 years before the book was published. One review on Amazon has seen fit to point out anachronisms:
Crocus Wrote:
The scenes set in the late 30s and 40s have a feel of authenticity almost wholly lacking in those set in 1976. I cannot understand why the author seemed to go to considerable pains to set the scenes where Eva recounts her involvement in the spy network, and yet fail so miserably in the continuation of the story almost forty years on. Some of the errors of the scene setting may appear trivial; does it really matter that the Oxford professor has a computer on his desk years before Oxford professors did, that the daughter drives a clapped out Renault 5 on three years after they started building them and that he describes their journey back to Oxford through a cutting in the Chiltern Hills eleven years before it was made? The answer is most definitely yes, if one respects the need for authenticity, particularly in the spy novel. When you consider the painstacking attention to detail that master spy writers like Le Carre and Frederick Forsyth go to to set the fiction within an accurate factual context then it is difficult not to come to the conclusion that Boyd presumes that either his audience is too lethargic to care or that it simply doesn't matter. His one sock to 1976 is to mention ad nauseam the fact that it was a hot summer. Come on Mr Boyd, is that all you remember about Britain in the mid 70s?
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01-26-2008, 03:47 AM
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I have a huge pile of books to read. I keep going into bookstores and instead of just buying a new book to read everytime I've finished one, I'll go in, start browsing and pick up half a dozen.
I'll go in and read for hours, and finish all the books I want right there. xD
I just HATE how Barnes and Noble always plays music, though.
02-01-2008, 01:05 AM
At the moment... DS9 books. hehe.
I like fiction mostly, especially "speculative" ie Sci-Fi / Fantasy.
But I also like to read reference and non-fiction as well.
Not so much into biography or "true stories" any more, though.
I like fiction mostly, especially "speculative" ie Sci-Fi / Fantasy.
But I also like to read reference and non-fiction as well.
Not so much into biography or "true stories" any more, though.
02-01-2008, 02:30 AM
Factual, though sometimes I'm into reading detectives...
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