View Poll Results: Please vote for the genres you would like to read in 2009 by November 1st.

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  • Horror

    11 28.21%
  • Sci-fi

    7 17.95%
  • Fairytale fantasy

    8 20.51%
  • Comic novel

    10 25.64%
  • Young adult

    12 30.77%
  • War novel

    13 33.33%
  • Erotica

    6 15.38%
  • Counter-culture Literature

    14 35.90%
  • Urban fantasy

    7 17.95%
  • New Weird

    4 10.26%
  • Gothic

    16 41.03%
  • Fantasy

    9 23.08%
  • Detective fiction

    14 35.90%
  • Crime fiction

    18 46.15%
  • Epic fantasies

    8 20.51%
  • Morality Plays

    8 20.51%
  • Novel of Manners

    10 25.64%
  • Thriller

    12 30.77%
  • Historical fiction

    18 46.15%
  • Philosophical Novel

    14 35.90%
  • Chick-lit

    7 17.95%
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Thread: 2009 "Genre of the Month" Poll

  1. #61
    Vincit Qui Se Vincit Virgil's Avatar
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    I voted. I didn't know what to make of urban fantasy. What's that?
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    Virgil> I think there was a discussion on this earlier in this thread (check the second page maybe?).


    Results at the moment:

    Crime fiction 11

    Detective fiction 10

    Historical fiction 9

    Gothic 8

    Comic novel 7

    Thriller 7

    Young adult 6

    War novel 6

    Novel of Manners 6

    Horror 4

    Fairytale fantasy 4

    Epic fantasies 4

    Philosophical Novel 4

    Chick-lit 4
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    Counter-culture Literature 3

    Morality Plays 3

    Sci-fi 2

    Erotica 2

    New Weird 2

    Fantasy 2

    Urban fantasy 1


    Two of the genres with 4 votes will have to be eliminated.
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    come on morality plays! They were after all plays created to mock religious plays but to educate the illiterate medieval public about all things good and evil. They are really cool.
    "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."
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    Quote Originally Posted by Scheherazade View Post
    Virgil> I think there was a discussion on this earlier in this thread (check the second page maybe?).
    Actually I couldn't find the discussion, but I looked it up.
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    Come on I'm ready to make a deal.....I'll vote for yours if you vote for mine....
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    which one was yours? i already voted but couldnt remember which one you nominated....
    "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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    counter culture lit
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    dont think i voted for that one....
    "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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    Thriller.
    "La dignité n'est qu'un paravent placé par l'orgueil et derrière lequel nous enrageons à notre aise." Honoré de balzac.
    "La réalité implacable me conduirait au suicide si le rêve ne me permettait d'attendre". Guy de Maupassant.

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    Quote Originally Posted by niamh View Post
    dont think i voted for that one....



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    Quote Originally Posted by papayahed View Post


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    Cheer up chuck Ive still got my vote!
    Edit well actually voted now, and paya you owe me one!
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    Yeay! Nightie voted for Morality Play!!

    Quote Originally Posted by papayahed View Post


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    Am Sowwy!!!!
    "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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    And please note I only EVER vote for things I actually think might be intresting, sorry girls, so I wasnt voting just to get votes...although I would like fairytale fantasy to get votes obviously...
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    The results at the moment:

    Crime fiction 14

    Gothic 12

    Detective fiction 12

    Historical fiction 12

    Thriller 10

    Comic novel 9

    Novel of Manners 9

    Young adult 8

    War novel 8

    Horror 6

    Philosophical Novel 6
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    Fairytale fantasy 5

    Counter-culture Literature 5

    Morality Plays 5

    Chick-lit 5

    Sci-fi 4

    Epic fantasies 4

    Erotica 3

    Urban fantasy 3

    Fantasy 3

    New Weird 2


    Only one of the genres with 5 votes would make it into the final 12.
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    come on one of the fantasies!!!
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