Olympic Reading
Another Winter Olympics has come and gone. Four more years of training and sacrifice for those who will participate in 2010.
Unfortunately, I didn't see as much of the coverage as I would have liked. One thing and then another prevented me from plopping down in front of the tube for more than a few minutes at a time. So it goes. Next though, come the Summer Olympics in 2008 and maybe I'll be able to enjoy the majority of those games.
For you, which reading materials win the gold, silver and bronze medals?
For me:
Gold: Non-fiction (business, biography, spiritual, etc.)
Silver: Personal interest (outdoor journals, shooting, hunting, etc.)
Bronze: Western fiction and History of the American West.
Unfortunately, I didn't see as much of the coverage as I would have liked. One thing and then another prevented me from plopping down in front of the tube for more than a few minutes at a time. So it goes. Next though, come the Summer Olympics in 2008 and maybe I'll be able to enjoy the majority of those games.
For you, which reading materials win the gold, silver and bronze medals?
For me:
Gold: Non-fiction (business, biography, spiritual, etc.)
Silver: Personal interest (outdoor journals, shooting, hunting, etc.)
Bronze: Western fiction and History of the American West.
posted by Erik Ivan James | 10:30 AM
10 Comments:
Neat idea, Erik.
Gold: Mystery Fiction - the modern social commentary.
Silver: True crime - my love of research
Bronze: A bizarre mix of stuff from CS Lewis to Tolkein to Dickens...and humor too.
Gold: Romance Fiction
Silver: Horror Fiction
Bronze: Mystery
Tanya
Hmmm...(thinking, thinking)
Gold: Any urban fantasy that refrains from using vampires
Silver: Literary fiction
Bronze: Memoirs--except for you know who
Gold: Great character-driven fiction - Pat Conroy, Stephen King, John Irving, Neil Gaiman, Margaret Atwood, John Updike...
Silver: Great plot-driven fiction - Robert Jordan, J.R.R. Tolkien, Frank Herbert, Isaac Asimov
Bronze: Non-fiction - particularly history - Tony Horwitz, Michael Shaara, David Downing
Gold: fantasy: Kay, Moon, Modesitt, Lackey,Jordan, Eddings,Stewart, Norton, MaCauffrey, Haggard.
Silver: historical and/ or mystery fiction such as Peters (Ellis and Elizabeth)Reichs, Shannon,Buchan, Oppenheim.
Bronze: non-fiction: histories ( battles and wars, eras), true crime,occultania, etc.
Gold: Mystery/Thriller Fiction
Silver: Non-Fiction; Business, Self-Help, Spiritual, History
Bronze: Literary Fiction, Memoirs, & Autobiographies
MY problem is, I'm not sure WHAT I like to read. I seem to find something interesting in almost any book I pick up.
I do, however, shy away from murder mysteries...I don't have enough fingernails to bite off to read a well-crafted mystery. Can't stand the suspense.
I've been picking up books recommended on friend's blogs. So far I've hit a couple of murder mysteries that weren't all THAT bad - maybe I've aged, I didn't go ape on my fingernails through those - and I read Torpedo and Bacalao, a couple of modern submarine warfare books that were hyped by Amazon...I've got Envy The Rain by Jamie Boud on hand, got it because blogger POD-dy Mouth had it reviewed and then it made the final five for best POD of the year...I'm just working on these and a long list my buddy Jim said I need to read, from the library. I'm gonna learn to read, yet.
So, Gold: a book that reaches out and grabs my attention. Almost always fiction.
Silver: A book that's mostly about plot instead of people. Shallow characters, etc.
Bronze: history, non-fiction, dry tomes, badly written novels, typos, most commercial porn, and some other stuff like deep space SciFi, OtherWorld fantasy (too hard to pronounce all the weird names), and anything written in Greek, which I don't understand a word of.
Otherwise, I'll try to read the thing.
hmmm:
Gold: Quirky stuff with a fine use of language. Think the pulitzer, booker, nobel prize winners. The accomplished magical realists.
Silver: Humor, but not jokebooks and not typical 'The problems of raising kids' kind of stuff. Think 'A Year in Provence.'
Bronze: everything else.
Hi Erik.
Can't get past your security.
Was going to say I think I'm in the bronze category or some other mongrel thing.
GREAT post!
Gold: Thrillers.
Silver: Detective novels of all sorts.
Bronze: History, especially Civil War and World War II.
Adam
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