My favorite genre of fiction to read is fantasy. I do like some science fiction, horror, and some thrillers. But I often return to fantasy because it seems to capture -- for me, at least -- everything that fiction "should" be.
Even then, however, I only really like a small subset of fantasy for reading purposes. It's similar to my taste in science fiction as well. I like the humorous fantasy story, a la Terry Pratchett's Discworld series. Or it's science fiction equivalent of the Hitchhiker's Guide series by Douglas Adams.
When I write, though, it tends to be urban fantasy, which is odd because that's a genre I don't read much. It just happens to be the genre that I get lots of ideas for. And not much on the way of humor either in my stories, at least not the levels of satire present in Pratchett's work.
While I say that fantasy is my favorite genre, I have difficulty stomaching and reading most "serious" fantasy. Sure, I can sit and read through Lord of the Rings any day of the week; it's the scads of imitators to that story that I can read. The satirical and humorous fantasy works don't take themselves so mind-numbingly serious like so many other fantasy works do.
What about your favorite genre? Why is it your favorite?
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