HEllo all - I was wondering what kinds of novels and literature people prefer? whether there were any general patterns of interest in certain subjects for dyspraxics or an avoidance/confusion with others?
Personally, I tend to avoid romance, biographies and autobiographies: ithink i struggle with understanding/caring about the emotive bits and need something with more of a logical structure
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Lady Fluff
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Hi Ellen,
I also tend to avoid romance - I'm a soppy enough git in real life, I don't enjoy reading about others though. I don't mind auto/biographies, though I generally have to be pretty interested in the subject to stick with it.
I tend to stick with fantasy and/or humourous books. I spent 6 months, starting about a year ago, reading the Duncton Wood novels of William Horwood, all about colonies of moles, their religions and wars and loves and lives - heavy going but I felt proud of myself once I'd got through them all. Recently, I read the Time Traveller's Wife, which was a beautiful, moving piece of literature. Currently, through a work colleague who's lending them to me, I am enjoying the novels of Jasper Fforde - very funny books that I need to stop reading on the train as I keep giggling and worrying my fellow passengers!
There are certain topics I enjoy non-fiction books on, mainly on paganism and witchcraft, and homosexuality.
I can also spend hours engrossed in books on trivia, great fun!
Whoops, I seem to have harked on long enough, I'll let someone else have a go!
I also tend to avoid romance - I'm a soppy enough git in real life, I don't enjoy reading about others though. I don't mind auto/biographies, though I generally have to be pretty interested in the subject to stick with it.
I tend to stick with fantasy and/or humourous books. I spent 6 months, starting about a year ago, reading the Duncton Wood novels of William Horwood, all about colonies of moles, their religions and wars and loves and lives - heavy going but I felt proud of myself once I'd got through them all. Recently, I read the Time Traveller's Wife, which was a beautiful, moving piece of literature. Currently, through a work colleague who's lending them to me, I am enjoying the novels of Jasper Fforde - very funny books that I need to stop reading on the train as I keep giggling and worrying my fellow passengers!
There are certain topics I enjoy non-fiction books on, mainly on paganism and witchcraft, and homosexuality.
I can also spend hours engrossed in books on trivia, great fun!
Whoops, I seem to have harked on long enough, I'll let someone else have a go!
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The majority of my reading is Sci-fi or fantasy. I read books from other genres, but they are in the minority. I like a lot of fantasy books as they tend to contain a great amount of detail about the worlds that they are set in, so much so that I could picture it all going on in my head. It's a nice escape from the drudgery of real life sometimes.
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Re: novels and literature
i think i'm the opposite, i love those sorts of books and i think i'm probably over emphatic. i can only read at home because i tend to burst into tears at any little thing! i think it's because i get so attached to people (real or fictional!) and things.ellen wrote: Personally, I tend to avoid romance, biographies and autobiographies: ithink i struggle with understanding/caring about the emotive bits and need something with more of a logical structure
i like all sorts of books though. i'm just getting to the end of brave new world at the moment which is really interesting. i love the his dark materials trilogy, it's wonderful, and i really like the virgin suicides by jeffrey eugenides, i love that it's quirky and sweet. i love bridget jones too, mainly because i think i am her!
it's good to know we're taking in a wide range of genres, next, we take the world!
I like a well described fantasy world (my favorite being the Discworld) but i've always attributed that to being an archaeologist, and wanting to understand how things work in their entirety. but then, i sometimes wonder if that comes from the dyspraxia in general!
I like a well described fantasy world (my favorite being the Discworld) but i've always attributed that to being an archaeologist, and wanting to understand how things work in their entirety. but then, i sometimes wonder if that comes from the dyspraxia in general!
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robyn
I have a compulsive reading habit
I hate sci fi, love virgin suicides too
I tend to adore particular authors, but read alot from many areas
Im crazy over dostoevsky, beat generation, ibsen, nabakov, blake, mary shelly, zelda fitzgerald
I also find poetry intoxicating, my all time favourite is tracy heard, and one of my all time favourite novels is miss smilia's feeling for snow, its breath taking
I read alot of torey hayden, biographys etc too, I find them comforting in a weird way as they are sillilar to my own childhood so I feel less alone when Im down
I hate sci fi, love virgin suicides too
I tend to adore particular authors, but read alot from many areas
Im crazy over dostoevsky, beat generation, ibsen, nabakov, blake, mary shelly, zelda fitzgerald
I also find poetry intoxicating, my all time favourite is tracy heard, and one of my all time favourite novels is miss smilia's feeling for snow, its breath taking
I read alot of torey hayden, biographys etc too, I find them comforting in a weird way as they are sillilar to my own childhood so I feel less alone when Im down
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gherkin001
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Archaeology is my life force, Its the reason I get up everyday and the reason I breathe, what is your specialism? For me its Iron Age Britain/Ireland and Egyptology.ellen wrote:it's good to know we're taking in a wide range of genres, next, we take the world!
I like a well described fantasy world (my favorite being the Discworld) but i've always attributed that to being an archaeologist, and wanting to understand how things work in their entirety. but then, i sometimes wonder if that comes from the dyspraxia in general!
Kirsty
DySpRaXiA dOeSnT mAkE lIfE hArDeR, jUsT mOrE cOmPlIcAtEd.
yeah, I wouldnt be able to touch an autobiography or other "boring real life" sort of book.
I tend to read things like Dictionaries and Encyclopedias, coz there like bags of seperate little gems of knowledge that have no strong connection to one another and require very little dedication. You can read a page or even one little section that is complete in itself, rather the having to read 20-60 pages in order to "close a circle" as the saying goes.
When I read books I tend to read the entire thing at once so I avoid very large books unless there by an author I trust.
Since I bough my philosophy books, I Have gone through Plato - The last days of Socrates(coz it looked small) in one sitting, then I started brousing through the DIctionary of Philosophy, but i havn't touched the bigger text books, and I hate the though of doing so.
I tend to read things like Dictionaries and Encyclopedias, coz there like bags of seperate little gems of knowledge that have no strong connection to one another and require very little dedication. You can read a page or even one little section that is complete in itself, rather the having to read 20-60 pages in order to "close a circle" as the saying goes.
When I read books I tend to read the entire thing at once so I avoid very large books unless there by an author I trust.
Since I bough my philosophy books, I Have gone through Plato - The last days of Socrates(coz it looked small) in one sitting, then I started brousing through the DIctionary of Philosophy, but i havn't touched the bigger text books, and I hate the though of doing so.