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[Eli Katz]

I definitely read more nonfiction than fiction. I manage to finish a half dozen novels a year now. I don't really have time for longer books, and haven't read a 500-plus page novel in years. Twenty years ago, all I read were novels -- especially giant classics. Now, it's nonfiction -- books that are related to work.

What do you read? And more interesting, how have your reading habits changed as you've gotten older?

[Timbales]

I seldom read non-fiction.

[Doc Jon]

I would say I read more fiction, but I go through phases.

SOmetimes I get into autobiographies and I read a bunch...

[covalesky]

Don't remember the last time i read non fiction

[PDH]

Non-fiction, by a huge margin.

[sdsichero]

I read a lot of comics, but if you mean books; non-fiction. I rarely read fiction nowadays.

I'm on Outhouse a lot so I guess that tips it really into the fiction realm. I can't believe most of these chraracters are real.

[contramundi]

fiction and historical fiction

[Allen]

I'm about 50/50 between fiction and non-fiction.

And I've been this way for a while, since getting out of grad school (in grad school is was research research research all the time; there was no such thing as "pleasure reading"). To be honest, I purposely try to alternate nowadays.

[outsider]

Mostly fiction (maybe more)

I just finished Out of Oz and have McCullough's 1776 up next.

I always have a book or two going, even when I'm reading comics/trades (currently on Astro City "Shining Stars").

[Chris]

Fiction by a landslide. I will only read nonfiction if there's a lot of hype around it.

Like right now, between finishing up the new Stephen King, I am also reading Jonathan Lethem's "The Ecstasy of Influence"

But I can't remember the last non-fiction I read prior to that..

[Royal Nonesuch]

I read more fiction, though I wish I read more non-fiction, and know I should.

[muddyglass]

almost entirely non-fiction these days. the last time it was tilted the other way was when i was a child.

[Strict31]

Fiction mostly. The only non-fiction I read are either gifts from others, or are about science. A few books here and there which examine Sumerian myths and religion. Mostly, the non-fiction stuff I read tends to revolve heavily around the same types of subjects in my fiction books. I might read a book about the history of comics in Canada. Or about a guy attempting to become a so-called Real Life Superhero (which was pretty funny, actually). Vampire lore and how it has developed in different countries; black holes, heroic myths, shit like that.

[Log-Man]

Probably still fiction, but I read a lot more non-fiction the older I get. Biographies and science fact are the biggest categories.

[nietoperz]

I'm about 50/50 as well.