2009 "Genre of the Month" Poll

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Originally Posted by Virgil

Out of curiosity, can anyone vote or do they need a certain number of posts?

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The Book Club polls are always 50+ votes.

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Originally Posted by Drkshadow03

Oh come on! Nobody wants to do New Weird, except for Jozany and I?!

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You say that as if that is a bad thing! ;) :p



Results at the moment:

Crime fiction 14

Gothic 13

Detective fiction 13

Historical fiction 13

Thriller 11

Comic novel 9

Young adult 9

Novel of Manners 9

Horror 8

War novel 8

Counter-culture Literature 7

Philosophical Novel 7
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Fairytale fantasy 6

Morality Plays 6

Epic fantasies 5

Chick-lit 5

Sci-fi 4

Fantasy 4

Erotica 3

Urban fantasy 3

New Weird 2


We have our top 12 emerging finally!

come on come on
2 more votes for fairytale fantasy..or for epic... or something ....
stop voting or horror and war stories!!!
:eek2:
;)

No. Don't vote for fairytales. That's for kids. War stories are for mature readers. :p

Crime fiction 15

Gothic 14

Detective fiction 13

Historical fiction 13

Thriller 11

Comic novel 9

Young adult 9

War novel 9

Novel of Manners 9

Philosophical Novel 9

Horror 8

Counter-culture Literature 7
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Fairytale fantasy 6

Morality Plays 6

Epic fantasies 5

Chick-lit 5

Sci-fi 4

Erotica 4

Fantasy 4

Urban fantasy 3

New Weird 2



We need more votes for chick-lit! Where are the chicks of the Forum? :D

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Originally Posted by Virgil

No. Don't vote for fairytales. That's for kids. War stories are for mature readers. :p

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pfffffffttt, fairyales are a tool for expressing large social, moral and ethical dilemmas and situations through a means that makes them more accessible to a larger portion of the population, they are often dark and bring up a lot of right and wrong issues. A fantastic example of which is some of the non disneyfied non grimmified versions of cinderella such as Donkey skin or the coat of many colours, or indeed The little mermaid, or ghe medieval ( was it Renissance? Id have to look it up ) version of sleeping beauty?
And then of course there are the modern adapations of fairytales..like alice hoffman's stuff and Holly Blacks tithe, Valiant and Ironside, or more traditional fantasy fantasy things like the Bitterbynde trilogy by Dart-Thornton, or Daughter of the forest and wildwood dancing by Juliet Marillier. More young adultish ones like Beauty and Spindles end by Robin McKinley. The elemental series by Mercedes lackey ( The serpent's Shadow is the best adaptation of snow white I have ever come across - well truthfully its one of the few I have come across but thats mainly because people just don't appreciated it enough.) And the list keep growing and growing with authours like Patricia a Mackillip, Patricia C. wrede and loads of others whose names escape me just at this second.
:rolleyes:

war stories are always the same ... people go to war people die everyone is sad ... and so it goes ...plus I thought we were supposed to be doing something different?

:p ;)

Touche. :D

But people please continue to vote for war stories. :)

Come on chicklit, fantasy and morality plays!!!!!!
I still cant get over there being three "crime" genres in the top twelve!

OMG we already have a tie! someone should break that! I want the crime fiction to win!!!!:eek2::eek2::goof:

:D

Results so far:

Gothic 15

Crime fiction 15

Historical fiction 14

Detective fiction 13

Thriller 11

Philosophical Novel 11

Horror 10

War novel 10

Comic novel 9

Young adult 9

Counter-culture Literature 9

Novel of Manners 9
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Fairytale fantasy 8

Epic fantasies 7

Morality Plays 7

Fantasy 6

Sci-fi 5

Urban fantasy 5

Chick-lit 5

Erotica 4

New Weird 3

Are detective fiction and crime fiction really two seperate genre ? :(

Anyway I vote Erotica!! WoooOOOo Go Erotica :D

(not sure i know any Erotica books but the discussions should be great!)

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Originally Posted by DapperDrake

Are detective fiction and crime fiction really two seperate genre ? :

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and Thriller. That also comes under crime fiction

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Anyway I vote Erotica!! WoooOOOo Go Erotica :D

(not sure i know any Erotica books but the discussions should be great!)

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theres The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty by A.N.Roquelaure (aka Anne Rice)

I think detective fiction and crime fiction are diffreent...detective fition could be Hammet, Chandler, or Father BRown mysteries, or Agatha Chrisitie, or Sr. Arthur Conan Doyle.

Crime Fiction- could be In Cold Blood (though technically suspended between fiction and non-fiction), or Crime and Punishment, or To Kill A Mockingbird, or 12 Angry Men, or Intruder in the Dust, Sanctuary, American Psycho, Novels by James M. Cain, or Jim Thompson ...

There's lots of crime fiction, which doesn't involve detectives at all.

I'm surprised the genre of derivative fiction isn't up there, after all, it seems the most popular of all genres...

Just kidding.

I voted for counter-culture literature:p

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Originally Posted by _Shannon_

I think detective fiction and crime fiction are diffreent...detective fition could be Hammet, Chandler, or Father BRown mysteries, or Agatha Chrisitie, or Sr. Arthur Conan Doyle.

Crime Fiction- could be In Cold Blood (though technically suspended between fiction and non-fiction), or Crime and Punishment, or To Kill A Mockingbird, or 12 Angry Men, or Intruder in the Dust, Sanctuary, American Psycho, Novels by James M. Cain, or Jim Thompson ...

There's lots of crime fiction, which doesn't involve detectives at all.

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Yes but detectives generally solve crimes dont they, which makes it a sub-genre catagory of crime fiction, same as Thriller. The only detective series i've never seen in a Crime Fiction section is No.1 Ladies Detective agency series, for obvious reasons too.

Niamh I agree, Detective and Thriller are clearly sub-genre of Crime, but to be fair they are not the only sub-genre up there. I would say that Fairytale fantasy, Urban fantasy, and Epic fantasy are all sub-genre of Fantasy.

It would of been nice if the genre in the poll were all distinct, to avoid having months reading of similar material, but I guess this is what was voted for so there you have it.

No i think is good that we have sub genres in the listing. It would be nice though if there was at least one fantasy genre up there in the top 12 though. :)
So keep voting everyone!!!!
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:blush: If I'd of realised you could vote for more than one genre I would of thrown some votes in the way of the Fantasy genre, my fault for not reading the instructions fully! :sick:

All the genres included in the poll have been nominated by our members so...

The results so far:


Gothic 16

Crime fiction 16

Historical fiction 15

Detective fiction 14

War novel 11

Counter-culture Literature 11

Thriller 11

Philosophical Novel 11

Horror 10

Young adult 10

Comic novel 9

Novel of Manners 9
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Fairytale fantasy 8

Epic fantasies 7

Morality Plays 7

Sci-fi 6

Fantasy 6

Erotica 5

Urban fantasy 5

Chick-lit 5

New Weird 3

Petition to knock out horror and war stories and thriller (because detective and crime and thriller are all sort of the same when you think about it ) in favour of some of the fantasy!!
:D

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Originally Posted by Nightshade

to knock out horror and war stories and thriller

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And that is your fantasy? :D

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Originally Posted by Scheherazade

And that is your fantasy? :D

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any kind really or scifi, !!
:D

I'm not too worried, I like eight of the winning 12 genre so far so thats not bad going really. Is a little bit of a shame there is no fantasy or sci-fi up there at all, seems incomplete, but its not a big deal.
After all, I'm sure I can find some sci-fi / crime hybrid that might qualify as "crime", or maybe a fantasy / detective novel :D

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Originally Posted by Nightshade

Petition to knock out horror and war stories and thriller (because detective and crime and thriller are all sort of the same when you think about it ) in favour of some of the fantasy!!
:D

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Just for the record, when I added thriller I wasn't thinking either of the other two. I was thinking more along the lines of things like Frankenstein, Dracula, Pet Cemetary, IT, and other books similar. Thriller I guess in the spooky Michael Jackson music video kind of way:D In seriousness, though, let's see some fantasy up in the top too. What is the fun if we read nothing but a bunch of similar generes?

Well I'd say what you're describing is Gothic or horror rather than thriller, though of course there are a lot of horror-thrillers around. A thriller's main characteristic is suspense, so cliffhanger type books would qualify.

yeah they are gothic and horror novels. :nod:

Results so far:

Gothic 16

Crime fiction 16

Historical fiction 15

Detective fiction 14

War novel 11

Counter-culture Literature 11

Thriller 11

Philosophical Novel 11

Horror 10

Young adult 10

Comic novel 9

Novel of Manners 9
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Fairytale fantasy 8

Fantasy 7

Epic fantasies 7

Morality Plays 7

Sci-fi 6

Erotica 5

Urban fantasy 5

Chick-lit 5

New Weird 3

Our top 12 is not changing much anymore, it seems like.

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Originally Posted by Scheherazade

Our top 12 is not changing much anymore, it seems like.

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Thank heavens and let's keep it that way. :D

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Originally Posted by Virgil

Thank heavens and let's keep it that way. :D

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Heavens?
There isn't a single fantasy or sci-fi genre in there.
I think that this is a sufficient proof that there is no God,or, at least, no benevolent God.

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Originally Posted by Taliesin

Heavens?
There isn't a single fantasy or sci-fi genre in there.
I think that this is a sufficient proof that there is no God,or, at least, no benevolent God.

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I agree! At least one of the crime genres should be replaced by a fantasy genre! :p

Don't fear:) I found a site that has multiple types of sub genres within the thriller category. I'm kicking myself a bit for nominating it since I would have liked to read something fatasy or sci fi too. We'll just have to find a way to fit it in somewhere else:D

Sure we could get a few fantasy into war novels. :p heck! most of them are packed with bloody wars!
Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy could fall under comic. :p (thats still up there right?)
And there are tons of fantasy in young adult. :D

There has been more votes but the top 12 hasn't changed so comic is still in the cut. I imagine there can't be many more people left to vote so this is probably pretty much how it's going to end up.

Crime fiction 18

Historical fiction 18

Gothic 16

Counter-culture Literature 14

Detective fiction 14

Philosophical Novel 14

Young adult 12

War novel 12

Thriller 12

Horror 11

Comic novel 10

Novel of Manners 10
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Fantasy 9

Fairytale fantasy 8

Epic fantasies 8

Sci-fi 7

Morality Plays 7

Chick-lit 7

Erotica 6

Urban fantasy 6

New Weird 4



Going once...

Just a couple more votes for fantasy needed!!!!!

Going twice...

I managed to not vote for the genre I nominated, because I was too quick to tab despite the "you may vote for more than one" option; just as well, perhaps, because I am not sure how many selections I can commit to.

And I don't really like the top picks. Where are the elitists in these 53k? :)

Can you name one Novel of Manners, please?

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Originally Posted by bazarov

Can you name one Novel of Manners, please?

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anything by Austen i think....