Cant believe there are three crime genres in the top 12.
Horror
Sci-fi
Fairytale fantasy
Comic novel
Young adult
War novel
Erotica
Counter-culture Literature
Urban fantasy
New Weird
Gothic
Fantasy
Detective fiction
Crime fiction
Epic fantasies
Morality Plays
Novel of Manners
Thriller
Historical fiction
Philosophical Novel
Chick-lit
Cant believe there are three crime genres in the top 12.
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..I can't believe my nominated genre is currently winning!Go, go, go-Crime Fiction!
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Out of curiosity, can anyone vote or do they need a certain number of posts?
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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!
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
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
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The Book Club polls are always 50+ votes.
You say that as if that is a bad thing!
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!
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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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come on come on
2 more votes for fairytale fantasy..or for epic... or something ....
stop voting or horror and war stories!!!
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No. Don't vote for fairytales. That's for kids. War stories are for mature readers.
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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?
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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?No. Don't vote for fairytales. That's for kids. War stories are for mature readers.
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.
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?
Last edited by Nightshade; 10-08-2008 at 01:10 PM.
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Touche.
But people please continue to vote for war stories.
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Come on chicklit, fantasy and morality plays!!!!!!
I still cant get over there being three "crime" genres in the top twelve!
"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
OMG we already have a tie! someone should break that! I want the crime fiction to win!!!!
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise."
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald
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
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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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Are detective fiction and crime fiction really two seperate genre ?
Anyway I vote Erotica!! WoooOOOo Go Erotica
(not sure i know any Erotica books but the discussions should be great!)
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