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Thread: The Book Club Proposal - 2009

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    this year was country, year before last was author right? I'm with Papayhed... Genre or random
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    Quote Originally Posted by Virgil View Post
    I don't do chic romance novels.
    Oh Virgil, pleeaase!!!

    According to good old Wiki' s definition of Chick Lit:

    "The genre's creation was spurred on, if not exactly created, by Sue Townsend's Adrian Mole diaries"

    I loooved Adrian Mole.




    .... and must confess I also really liked Bridget Jones' Diary which I guess would fall directly under chic romance novels.

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    Quote Originally Posted by lugdunum View Post
    Oh Virgil, pleeaase!!!

    According to good old Wiki' s definition of Chick Lit:

    "The genre's creation was spurred on, if not exactly created, by Sue Townsend's Adrian Mole diaries"

    I loooved Adrian Mole.




    .... and must confess I also really liked Bridget Jones' Diary which I guess would fall directly under chic romance novels.
    Don't take me too seriously Lug. But I still won't do a chick lit novel. You girls will have a ball. Actually maybe i should do it and laugh my way through and get you girls all fired up angry. *evil laugh*
    LET THERE BE LIGHT

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    there is always Lad Lit Virg
    "Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
    W.B.Yeats

    "If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
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    Quote Originally Posted by Niamh View Post
    there is always Lad Lit Virg
    Lad lit? I've never heard of such a thing. Is that those dirty magazines?
    LET THERE BE LIGHT

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    Its what the likes of Nick Hornby, and a few others are being catagorised under these days. Nick Lairds Utterly Monkey is also being classed as Lad lit.
    basicly books predominanty written for men. (as chick lit is mainly written for women.)
    "Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
    W.B.Yeats

    "If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
    Artemins Fowl and the Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer


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    Quote Originally Posted by Niamh View Post
    Its what the likes of Nick Hornby
    Darn! I also like Nick Hornby... I'm confused now Am I that desperate ?

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    I think Nick Hornby's books are great reads. High Fidlity was enjoyable. an old friend of mine (male) told me i wouldnt "get it" because it was a woman.
    "Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
    W.B.Yeats

    "If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
    Artemins Fowl and the Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer


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    Quote Originally Posted by Niamh View Post
    Nick Lairds Utterly Monkey is also being classed as Lad lit.
    Utterly Monkey? Now you really must be talking about those dirty books.
    LET THERE BE LIGHT

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    Monkey meaning crazy, ugly, messed up Virgil!
    Great book though. Very funny.
    "Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
    W.B.Yeats

    "If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
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    Now now, Virgil!! Let's not get carried away here

    So, I'm going through the previous years' "Proposals" threads and I find this post which I thought would be very useful to shed some light on the "by genre" option and help doubtful voters.

    Quote Originally Posted by Scheherazade View Post
    Wikipedia offers an extensive list of literary genres:

    List of literary genres
    -Autobiography
    - Biography
    - Children's literature
    - Constrained writing
    - Diaries and Journals
    - Essay
    -Fiction

    --Adventure novel
    --Airport novels
    --Bildungsroman
    --Chick lit
    --Crime fiction, Detective fiction
    --Erotic
    --Fable
    --Fairy tale
    --Family Saga
    --Frame story
    --Gothic
    ---Southern Gothic
    --Historical fiction
    --Historiographical metafiction
    --Hysterical realism
    --Hypertext fiction
    --Inspirational fiction
    --Invasion literature
    --Legal thriller
    --Mystery
    ---Cozy
    ---Hard-boiled
    --Nouveau roman
    --Psychological novel
    --Psychological thriller
    --Roman à clef
    --Romance
    ---Historical romance
    ----Bodice rippers
    ----Regency romance
    ---Inspirational romance
    ---Paranormal romance
    ---Time travel romance
    --Saga
    --Satire
    --Speculative fiction
    ---Alternate/Alternative history
    ---Fantasy (for more details see Fantasy subgenres)
    ----Epic fantasy
    ----Science fantasy
    ----Urban fantasy
    ---Horror
    ---Science fiction (for more details see Science fiction genres and related topics)
    ----Cyberpunk
    ----Hard science fiction
    ----Space opera
    --Sensation novel
    --Slave narrative
    --Spy fiction/Political thriller
    --Thriller
    --Western

    -Memoir
    -Non-fiction
    -Oral Narrative (Oral History)
    -Outdoor literature
    -Poetry
    -Travel literature

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literary_genre (please click on the link for more information on these genres).

    If this option is chosen, we can nominate and vote for the most popular 12 genres.
    Man there are a lot of genres to choose from.
    Cyberpunk??? Space Opera??? Can anyone share the benefit of their sci-fi wisdom on these?

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    Bodice rippers!
    "Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
    W.B.Yeats

    "If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
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    It is going to be interesting, to say the least!
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    "It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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    Quote Originally Posted by Scheherazade View Post
    It is going to be interesting, to say the least!
    Yep!
    "Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
    W.B.Yeats

    "If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
    Artemins Fowl and the Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer


    my poems-please comment Forum Rules

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    Quote Originally Posted by Scheherazade View Post
    It is going to be interesting, to say the least!
    It hasn't won yet. Don't count your chickens before they're hatched. Stranger things have happened in these polls in the past.
    LET THERE BE LIGHT

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