Poll #56: Favorite Writing Styles?

[Shaun]

Well, what are your favorite writing styles? Not styles that you like to write, but read (or both, I supposed).

[Simmi]

I enjoy reading historical fiction. Such as The Other Boleyn Girl, amazing movie, even better book. I guess that would go under other...

[Shaun]

That's not a style. That's a genre. Style is the way it is written, not the content.

[appleofmyeye]

I picked Popular :blush:. All I know is that Old English intimidates me :doh:. I remember when I tried to read Oliver Twist when I was 12 *shudders*. I do have Wuthering Heights but I haven't read. I think part of the reason I am scared to pick one up is that Stephenie Meyer totally butchered them when she tried to connect her pile of sparkling shit to them :glare:.

[jordanisonfire]

I picked popular. Hopefully, that counts as Lovecraft's work.

[Ichigo]

I picked Popular :blush:. All I know is that Old English intimidates me :doh:. I remember when I tried to read Oliver Twist when I was 12 *shudders*. I do have Wuthering Heights but I haven't read. I think part of the reason I am scared to pick one up is that Stephenie Meyer totally butchered them when she tried to connect her pile of sparkling shit to them :glare:.

I HATE SMEYER FOR DOING THAT! Debussy, he's an amazing composer, and now everyone knows him simply because of Smeyer! Jane Austen, and the Bronte sisters are amazing writers, and now their memory has been crapped on! GRR!

<I'm done ranting now I swear!>

I like...old english types. I mean, I haven't read much, and I don't know very many old authors, but I really like what I've read. It's pretty much all I read now because I have a HUGE Jane Austen complete-works-of book. I also have lots of Charles Dickens that I've read. I <3 reading.

[littledreamer!]

Everything! i'm not picky! but my fave is popular or literary...i suppose.

[Quietus]

I really don't know what style I write. I don't read enough to recognise the differences.:P

[Starry]

I feel like being overloaded with literary works at school has entirely ruined them for me, not that I really enjoy them to begin with. I picked "popular," by which I mean fairly modern, non-abstract, entertaining stuff (a lot of what I read is really obscure).

[Phantom]

I love realistic fiction. I'm into Sarah Dessen and people like her.

[Mercy]

I picked Literary. I can't stand most popular fiction. >.<

[Fiction]

Pop fiction kills me. Chose literary.

[Rouge]

I really like the way Stephen King writes. Though I do think he's in a class by himself. d:

[Shaun]

I picked postmodern only because it's the only style I think has enough variation to make me happy enough to choose it :P. Postmodern sort of merges with literary, though.

[Crocolyle]

I like to think that I have a pretty open literary palette. For fun, I do read a lot of popular fiction and genre fiction, like Stephen King, Orson Scott Card, Martin, Ursula K. LeGuin, but I branch off and do try to read some stuff considered to be of literary merit, particularly Hawthorne, Steinbeck, Vonnegut, Cormac McCarthy, and Khaled Hosseini (who could probably be considered either). Literary novels which initially less exciting, I think tend to be more meaningful and better written.

A don't read too much experimental or post-modern fiction. I do read and enjoy some stuff, like for school I had to read Written on the Body, which was phenomenal, but a lot of post-modern stuff seems to strive for confusion for the sake of confusion or reads a little like a serious of unrelated events with a contrived, crucial, climatic meeting point (usually the final event with the most detail) that does not truly further a single aspect or really have a true underlying meaning or theme; however, I do typically enjoy certain elements of post-modern fiction:
1. the focus on minutia (think Seinfeld)
2. the "no hugging, no learning" philosophy
3. depravity of humans
4. subjectivity and emotion
5. ambiguous endings that leave some ends loose
Even with those things and even with an experimental writing style, a story can still be sharp, interesting, and have some level of clarity that makes it able to follow. But a lot of it is very "meh." Read "Twilight of the Superheroes," which was the worst piece of bullshit I had to read, and you'll know what I mean. When an author makes reading difficult, garnished with delusions of cleverness... I mean, the point of writing is to convey ideas, not to create headaches.

[OceanWater]

Popular. Hence the reason why it's call...popular.

The title explains itself.

Postmodern kiills me.

[Clawfire]

I usually like popular books...

[FayGee]

Popular fiction for me!