I'm not sure if it's a genre or what it would be called if it was but i'm thinking something counterculture (subversive?). Something from the hippies, beats...
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I'm not sure if it's a genre or what it would be called if it was but i'm thinking something counterculture (subversive?). Something from the hippies, beats...
I guess that might be called Beat Lit, although that's a specific time and place and counterculture can exist at any time.Quote:
Originally Posted by papayahed
There is no limit (as long as it is one nomination/one member).Quote:
Originally Posted by Nightshade
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Originally Posted by JBI
The Book Club readings are fiction only.Quote:
Originally Posted by _Shannon_
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Originally Posted by Virgil
The Wikipedia article is only a guide. If you would like to nominate a genre that is not listed, you are welcome to do so :).Quote:
Originally Posted by Nightshade
You need to have at least 50 posts to be able to nominate or vote.Quote:
Originally Posted by learntodiscover
Nominations so far:
1. Horror (Brigitte)
2. sci-fi (Manolia)
3. fairytale fantasy (Nightshade)
4. comic novel (bouquin)
5. young adult (motherhubbard)
6. war novel (Virgil)
7. erotica (Jozanny)
8. Beat Lit (Papayahed)
I think that I'll nominate urban fantasy.
Yes, I'll do that.
Ahem!
Urban fantasy!
Can we make it counterculture Lit? ohh or finge lit? I don't want it to be just beat writers I was thinking it coould include all eras, hippies, gen x, etc..Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
Will Urban Fantasy cover "New Weird"? I was surprised we just didn't have a general "fantasy" genre nominated. Oh well, if not I nominate "New Weird."
What about my nod to gothic? :bawling: I've made more than 50 posts.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
Nominations so far:
1. Horror (Brigitte)
2. sci-fi (Manolia)
3. fairytale fantasy (Nightshade)
4. comic novel (bouquin)
5. young adult (motherhubbard)
6. war novel (Virgil)
7. erotica (Jozanny)
8. counterculture Lit (Papayahed)
9. Urban fantasy (Taliesin)
10. New Weird (Drkshadow03)
11. gothic (Wessexgirl)
12. Fantasy (Nossa)Sorry, I thought you were just agreeing with learntodiscover.Quote:
Originally Posted by wessexgirl
What about detective fiction?Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
How'd we end up reading Papillion??? In theory that wasn't fiction :confused:
I feel so very very very old reading of this particular nomination. Drk has no mercy!;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Drkshadow03
Now for the non-teasing question: What are the characteristics of *New Weird* as you understand them?
Who proposed erotica? :lol::lol: Was it some salacious adolescent? :D
(Only teasing you Jozy. ;))
I wrote somthing but my computer crashed and now Ive forgotten what most of the ramble is and am not amused.
All I can rember is this: I was going to say somthig along the lines of come on people there are loads of genres we havent gone anywhere near yet let alone subgenres and even though I have voted I though a few ideas could go a miss :
Adaptations
chick lit
family sagas
weepies
uplifting blah blah I was working my way down the shelves of one corner of my library
OH I know
what would you call those books based on charchetre from classic novels etc which I guess can be intresting especially when you read the original, but at this moment the only ones I can think of by title I couldnt, wouldnt even read, such as Mr Darcy takes a wife, Mr Knightly's diary and Mr Darcy and me, although there was the novel with the boy on crutches from christamas carol had to solve some kind of murder... that one wasnt THAT bad.
oh and eyre affarie of course, which is BRILLIANT, but I think technically classed as a satire...:D
ohhh or how about historical fiction, somebody should nominate that...
Hey that was in the original post :nod: :D
mind reader....:eek2:
How about CRIME FICTION?