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Wow! I thought my 290hrs this year was a high amount but not even close! It listed my top category as Literature and Fiction which only slightly edged out sci fi and myster/thriller categories which had a similar number of hours. It said I earned a ‘genre hopper ribbon’.
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I've been android since the beginning but I might cross to the dark side this year.
Welcome.
I too, would like to welcome you. I am a dual user though. I can’t stand Android.
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Just for balance, is there anyone who's not into sci-fi? What's your preferred genre? I enjoy history, true crime or the occasional fiction.
I go through fads. I will read nearly any genre.
Right now I'm reading a lot of non fiction biographies by explorers, archeology books and art history and art technique books. I'm listening to sci-fi and fantasy and science and history of philosophy books.
I wouldn’t say it’s something I’m ‘in to’ specifically. I do read/watch sci-fi, but it’s not the dominant or only genre for me. I happily enjoy literature, crime, non-fiction, general fiction, biography. Sci-fi is so broad, it’s not just spaceships and laser beams. Just like any other genre, there’s unreadable junk and then also brilliant works that leave you thinking long after you’ve read them. I like the same things about it that I do in other genres, eg human struggles, mysteries to solve, comedy, redemption, action, discovery, drama etc. I mostly read the softer stuff where the sci-fi is not really the point of the story, just happens to allow a ‘what if’ scenario that our current reality doesn’t.
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Absolutely splattered with bug guts in the way back this evening.
I thought about absolutely nothing on the way home. The realisation was almost euphoric.
Good night everyone, sweet dreams 😘
Good night:)