OT: Fiction or Non-Fiction, Which Do You Prefer?

[RutgersRaRa]

I read both. I'm a big Astrophysics/Cosmology reader and I've read almost every recent Zombie book and a lot of fiction - so both.

I'm gonna take a flyer here and guess that you did your cursory astrophysics/cosmology reading in the early 1980s a half hour before the tests, then switched to fiction when you graduated. What do I win for being right?

 

[phs73rc77gsm83]

I enjoy both fiction and non-fiction. Some of you are selling fiction short. "Doestoyvsky gives me more than any scientist, more than Gauss." (Albert Einstein)

 

[mildone]

then switched to fiction when you graduated.

Except for the zombie books, of course.

What do I win for being right?

You get to start another OT thread. What else?

 

[mildone]

I enjoy both fiction and non-fiction. Some of you are selling fiction short. "Doestoyvsky gives me more than any scientist, more than Gauss." (Albert Einstein)

What Crime and Punishment was to literature, S&M sites are to the internet. Also, I like how you pass Gauss.

 

[RUScrew85]

I'm gonna take a flyer here and guess that you did your cursory astrophysics/cosmology reading in the early 1980s a half hour before the tests, then switched to fiction when you graduated. What do I win for being right?

Close. I aced Astro 101 without even cracking the book.

Sometimes I like fiction sometimes I read Non. Heck Sometimes I re-read books I read in the past.

 

[RutgersRaRa]

Except for the zombie books, of course.


You get to start another OT thread. What else?

I will always do this, much to the chagrin of a few posters here who think a football board is supposed to be about, ya know, ONLY football. Tsk tsk, I tell you!! Value-added bennies is what I do, along with the occasional thread about what a three-tech does, or whether it's a good scheme to have the safeties 70 yards off the line of scrimmage when it's third-and-short or even third-and-long or any down and distance, for an entire season. Things like that.

 

[YoucancallmeRay]

I like both. Historical fiction is cool too, like Caleb Carr and Eric Larson. My favorite source for fiction is this message board. It's also good for science fiction too. LOL.

 

[RURod]

Non-fiction only; history and biography.

Just finished: Nixon: A Man Divided by Evan Thomas. Very good. Surprisingly balanced. Nixon emerges as three dimensional human, not Dan Ackroyd with a scotch glued to his hand.