What is your favourite fiction genre? - Page 2

taminga16 (Greg) · #21 13-12-2011, 10:29 AM

Hi,
I am on an all Australian bender at the moment,

David Ireland. The Glass Canoe.
The Unknown Industrial Prisoner.
City of Women.
The Flesh Eaters.
The Chaintic Bird.
Archimedes and the seagle.

Robert Drewe. The Body Surfers.
A Cry in the Jungle Bar.
The Drowner.

The Shark Net. (a memoir).

William McInnes. Cricket Kings.

A Man's Got to Have a Hobby. (a memoir).

Greg.

taminga16 (Greg) · #22 13-12-2011, 11:29 AM

Oh,
I forgot to mention Shane Maloney. The Murray Whelan books are a rollicking good time and perfect holiday reading.
Greg.

Shano592 (Shane) · #23 13-12-2011, 04:51 PM

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Originally Posted by GeoffW1

What do you think of the movie project starring Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher? He'll need 9" heels.

Or boxes tied to his shoes. Or a full body double, except for the close ups.

Reacher is 6'5", while Cruise is 4'5".

Like Monty Python's 'Scott of the Sahara', everyone else is going to have to walk around in trenches to accommodate him.

Stardrifter_WA · #24 13-12-2011, 05:09 PM

Reacher is 6'5", while Cruise is 4'5".

Like Monty Python's 'Scott of the Sahara', everyone else is going to have to walk around in trenches to accommodate him.[/QUOTE]

That shouldn't make much difference. Just look at John Rhys-Davies who played the dwarf Gimli in LOTR. He is actually 6' 1" tall, so if they can make him look like a dwarf then it isn't hard to stretch Tom Cruise.

deejayvee (David) · #25 14-12-2011, 12:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Octane

DJV,

You might enjoy David Gemmell's heroic fantasy, then.

I've read a few of his history-based novels: Lion of Macedon, Dark Prince and the Troy series. Definitely an enjoyable read

TrevorW · #26 14-12-2011, 02:21 PM

Sci-fi mainly but into all sorts, I like action/adventure and are even historical such as "Clan of the Cave Bear" and "The Legend of Brian Boru"

overlord (Charles) · #27 16-12-2011, 07:31 PM

Interesting replies. Personally noir is my favourite genre.

Octane (Humayun) · #28 16-12-2011, 07:41 PM

You, sir, are a legend.

Lion of Macedon is my favourite book.

H

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Originally Posted by deejayvee

I've read a few of his history-based novels: Lion of Macedon, Dark Prince and the Troy series. Definitely an enjoyable read

Kevnool (Kev) · #29 16-12-2011, 07:43 PM

Anything that has pictures in it.

TrevorW · #30 16-12-2011, 09:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Kevnool

Anything that has pictures in it.

Playboy does not count as literature

Kevnool (Kev) · #31 16-12-2011, 11:04 PM

Ha Ha

ballaratdragons (Ken) · #32 16-12-2011, 11:11 PM

This one

Waxing_Gibbous (Peter) · #33 17-12-2011, 12:50 AM

While I read a prodigious amount of Sci-Fi and Fantasy, my favourite 'genre' is American & European 'Modernism" - Hemingway, Steinbeck, Faulkner, Schulberg, Mann, Joyce, etc.

Also the Magic Realism of Allende, Cortezar, Marquez - 180 dgrees of difference between the two, but both reflect (interestingly) the societies they sprang from.

I don't think I've read a "serious" book in the last 20 years that compares to any of these authors (maybe Vikram Seth or Brett Easton-Ellis).

I also really like Janet Evanovich.

alan meehan (Alan) · #34 17-12-2011, 01:03 AM

iIam right into Biggles books and have alarge collection around 400 books and just love the adventure ,ok chaps.
AL

deejayvee (David) · #35 19-12-2011, 12:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Octane

Lion of Macedon is my favourite book.

Yeah, that would be my favourite out of those.

If you liked that, I recommend Steven Pressfield's "Gates of Fire". It doesn't have any mystical stuff, but is easily the best piece of fiction set in the ancient Greek world that I have ever read.

Octane (Humayun) · #36 19-12-2011, 06:24 PM

Thank you! Will check it out.

H