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Post by msdemos on Apr 14, 2018 2:38:06 GMT
Of the two, which do you prefer ??  SAVE FERRIS |
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Post by twothousandonemark on Apr 14, 2018 6:31:21 GMT
Non. I prefer visualizing reality rather than made up places & characters. Fiction is fine once & a while, it just feels like more work for me.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2018 9:18:39 GMT
I like both, but if i have to pick non fiction.
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Post by bravomailer on Apr 14, 2018 12:35:47 GMT
Non-fiction. Seriously, are there any important fiction writers today? I asked this question to a neighbor who teaches lit and he could only think of Saul Bellow, who's died since then.
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Post by Terrapin Station on Apr 14, 2018 12:38:50 GMT
I read far more non-fiction than fiction. With films, though, by far I prefer fiction. I generally avoid realist fiction in all cases.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2018 13:25:45 GMT
Usually non-fiction (science and history).
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Post by dougb on Apr 15, 2018 12:39:45 GMT
Always have one of each on the go.
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Post by mrdanwest on Apr 15, 2018 15:49:47 GMT
Non-fiction. Seriously, are there any important fiction writers today? I asked this question to a neighbor who teaches lit and he could only think of Saul Bellow, who's died since then. Bellow has been dead since 2005 and, if your neighbor really doesn’t think any of the following living fiction writers are (academically) “important”, perhaps he needs to look for a new job: Cormac McCarthy Philip Roth Thomas Pynchon Don DeLillo Toni Morrison Margaret Atwood Paul Auster Robert Coover Kazuo Ishiguro Richard Ford John Irving John Barth Robert Coover Haruki Murakami Michael Chabon Joyce Carol Oates Salman Rushdie Tim O’Brien Alice Munro Ian McEwan Orhan Pamuk Milan Kundera Michel Houellebecq Zadie Smith Martin Amis Jhumpa Lahira Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie David Eggers George Saunders Jonathan Safron Foer William Vollman etc... |
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Post by koskiewicz on Apr 15, 2018 19:07:37 GMT
...back in the day, it was sci - fi all the way. Today, I only read non-fiction...
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Post by bravomailer on Apr 15, 2018 21:59:44 GMT
Non-fiction. Seriously, are there any important fiction writers today? I asked this question to a neighbor who teaches lit and he could only think of Saul Bellow, who's died since then. Bellow has been dead since 2005 and, if your neighbor really doesn’t think any of the following living fiction writers are (academically) “important”, perhaps he needs to look for a new job: Cormac McCarthy Philip Roth Thomas Pynchon Don DeLillo Toni Morrison Margaret Atwood Paul Auster Robert Coover Kazuo Ishiguro Richard Ford John Irving John Barth Robert Coover Haruki Murakami Michael Chabon Joyce Carol Oates Salman Rushdie Tim O’Brien Alice Munro Ian McEwan Orhan Pamuk Milan Kundera Michel Houellebecq Zadie Smith Martin Amis Jhumpa Lahira Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie David Eggers George Saunders Jonathan Safron Foer William Vollman etc... I've read books by many of the people on the list but wouldn't want to re-read any of them. No one seems likely to be highly regarded in future decades. Maybe Roth but I'd hope not. My friend won't be looking for a new job. He's a full professor in an English department generally ranked in the first tier. |
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Post by politicidal on Apr 16, 2018 15:00:18 GMT
Non-fiction.
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Post by suzi on Apr 18, 2018 18:47:18 GMT
I prefer non-fiction, but do on occasion read fiction. I just think real people are much more interesting than anything an author can make up.
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Post by vegalyra on Apr 18, 2018 19:48:16 GMT
Non-fiction although classical Greek and Roman literature is interesting.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2018 23:50:41 GMT
Bellow has been dead since 2005 and, if your neighbor really doesn’t think any of the following living fiction writers are (academically) “important”, perhaps he needs to look for a new job: Cormac McCarthy Philip Roth Thomas Pynchon Don DeLillo Toni Morrison Margaret Atwood Paul Auster Robert Coover Kazuo Ishiguro Richard Ford John Irving John Barth Robert Coover Haruki Murakami Michael Chabon Joyce Carol Oates Salman Rushdie Tim O’Brien Alice Munro Ian McEwan Orhan Pamuk Milan Kundera Michel Houellebecq Zadie Smith Martin Amis Jhumpa Lahira Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie David Eggers George Saunders Jonathan Safron Foer William Vollman etc... I've read books by many of the people on the list but wouldn't want to re-read any of them. No one seems likely to be highly regarded in future decades. Maybe Roth but I'd hope not. My friend won't be looking for a new job. He's a full professor in an English department generally ranked in the first tier. You're entitled to your opinion, even though it makes you come across as a snob with ridiculous and unrealistic high standards. |
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Post by bravomailer on Apr 20, 2018 1:29:31 GMT
I've read books by many of the people on the list but wouldn't want to re-read any of them. No one seems likely to be highly regarded in future decades. Maybe Roth but I'd hope not. My friend won't be looking for a new job. He's a full professor in an English department generally ranked in the first tier. You're entitled to your opinion, even though it makes you come across as a snob with ridiculous and unrealistic high standards. It's not snobby or ridiculous to think no one on that list is in the same tier as Bellow, Conrad, Melville, or Bronte. Nor is it snobby or ridiculous to think that Bush, Obama, and Trump are not the peers of Jefferson, Madison, and Roosevelt; or that Philip Glass is not up there with JS Bach; or that Jackson Pollock was no Rembrandt. |
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Post by Lucy on Apr 21, 2018 16:45:11 GMT
Non -fiction
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Post by Bargle on Apr 21, 2018 16:57:54 GMT
Neither. I read more fiction, but that's simply because more fiction books that interest me are published.
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on May 4, 2018 20:47:37 GMT
both!  |
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