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What is your ratio of fiction to non-fiction?
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100% nonfiction. When I finish all those, I'll start on fiction :-)
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I read fiction every time Randy Wayne White or James Lee Burke publish a new work.

I re-read some Longfellow occasionally. Being of Cajun heritage, I am a little obsessed with Evangeline. It is a tough read, but I muddle through it from time to time.

The last non-fiction work I read was Worlds in Collision by Immanuel Velikovsky, and that was a re-read. I first read it in 1972, and have revisited it about four times since then.

I spend most of the time I could be reading playing my little tenor uke.
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I predominantly read fiction. I am still working so I need to escape reality! :-)
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The only fiction I read is by Nelson DeMille and Richard Russo. Once in a while some Stephen King. Other than those three it's nonfiction.
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I read fiction every time Randy Wayne White or James Lee Burke publish a new work.

I re-read some Longfellow occasionally. Being of Cajun heritage, I am a little obsessed with Evangeline. It is a tough read, but I muddle through it from time to time.

The last non-fiction work I read was Worlds in Collision by Immanuel Velikovsky, and that was a re-read. I first read it in 1972, and have revisited it about four times since then.

I spend most of the time I could be reading playing my little tenor uke.
I'm doing a project in Opelousas LA this week and will be staying at the Evangeline Downs Casino Hotel. I'm looking forward to Canjun food and hoped to read Evangeline but didn't quite get to it yet./
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Nonfiction. I love memoirs, exposés, biographies, and true accounts of certain things. Not gruesome neighborhood murders of the Anne Rule variety, but more like living through a war or natural disaster, etc. Although I have to admit Vincent Bugliosi's books were fascinating reads.
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Almost all fiction but a few biographies once in a while.
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100% fiction.

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80% fiction unless something nonfiction really peaks my interest, which occasionally it does.
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I read 2 books a day when I can. Most are fiction ,some autobiography, biography ,How To,and non- fiction about science,religion foreign cultures.
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Wow, two books a day. Lauren that is amazing. Do tell us your favories in each area.
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When needing an easy read, it's non-fiction.

Almost 100% biograhies of great men/woman, who shaped our country in a positive manner.

Some writers like Doris Kearns Goodwin and Jean Edward Smith, (male), write biographies that make history come alive.

I know that's hard to believe, but they write long books and thoroughly research their subjects. Some fascinating reads reads like Team of Rivals - The political genius of Abraham Lincoln, (Goodwin), FDR, Grant, (Smith) and The Bully Pulpit by Goodwin.
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I read both fiction & non fiction, however, while waiting for our family to arrive, I chose something uniquely different for me as I wanted a "no brainer" such as a summer beach book..........am thoroughly enjoying his writing style.

I'm on book two of the trilogy...........by Blake Crouch. Can't wait to see how they portray this on t.v. in 2015. I don't want to give away too much of the storyline....

It was shocking, to say the least..........he reveals a bit at a time....keeping one guessing.

I put all three e books on my kindle via amazon.com

He has a gift for writing in short concise sentences........you can literally visualize what he 's writing about........

"""Welcome to Wayward Pines, the last town.

Secret Service agent Ethan Burke arrived in Wayward Pines, Idaho, three weeks ago. In this town, people are told who to marry, where to live, where to work. Their children are taught that David Pilcher, the town’s creator, is god. No one is allowed to leave; even asking questions can get you killed.

But Ethan has discovered the astonishing secret of what lies beyond the electrified fence that surrounds Wayward Pines and protects it from the terrifying world beyond. It is a secret that has the entire population completely under the control of a madman and his army of followers, a secret that is about to come storming through the fence to wipe out this last, fragile remnant of humanity.

Blake Crouch’s electrifying conclusion to the Wayward Pines Series—now a Major Television Event Series debuting Winter 2015 on FOX—will have you glued to the page right down to the very last word."""""


P.S. YOU CAN ALSO BUY THE PAPER BACK VERSION AT AMAZON...if an e-book is not for you. Funny thing, but as I was reading it, I thought it would make a great t.v. show such as the X FILES or TWIN PEAKS.......happy to know it will be on.......he really is a good writer........keeps one in suspense.

2013 International Thriller Award Nominee

Now a Major Television Event from FOX, debuting winter 2015.


Secret service agent Ethan Burke arrives in Wayward Pines, Idaho, with a clear mission: locate and recover two federal agents who went missing in the bucolic town one month earlier. But within minutes of his arrival, Ethan is involved in a violent accident. He comes to in a hospital, with no ID, no cell phone, and no briefcase. The medical staff seems friendly enough, but something feels…off. As the days pass, Ethan’s investigation into the disappearance of his colleagues turns up more questions than answers. Why can’t he get any phone calls through to his wife and son in the outside world? Why doesn’t anyone believe he is who he says he is? And what is the purpose of the electrified fences surrounding the town? Are they meant to keep the residents in? Or something else out? Each step closer to the truth takes Ethan further from the world he thought he knew, from the man he thought he was, until he must face a horrifying fact—he may never get out of Wayward Pines alive. Intense and gripping, Pines is another masterful thriller from the mind of bestselling novelist Blake Crouch.


 
 
 

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When I was young I read some fiction, but I guess I got it all out of my system. Now in my older years it's 100% non-fiction.

Right now I'm reading, "Where Does It Hurt?" by Jonathan Bush. It's a book about the health care industry, how it works and how it could be improved by more competition.

I'll tell more about it, eventually, in a separate thread.
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