something like fantastic fic site for non-fic?

blue_jean_baby

11 years ago

I find the fantasticfiction site so useful, I am hoping there is something similar for non-fiction books.

I use goodreads if I know of a particular writer I want to look up but it isn't quite the same thing....

Thanks!!

Dawn

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vee_new
11 years ago
Dawn, I've never been to the site you mention but think it would be very difficult for a similar site of 'non-fiction' as it would have to encompass such a huge range of topics. Everything from Architecture to Zoology with all subjects in between. I think you would have to pick a 'topic' in which you were interested, say flock wallpaper designs or salamander breeding and find lists by similar 'groupies'.
friedag
11 years ago
Dawn, I haven't responded before because I don't know a site specifically devoted to nonfiction. I read a lot of NF, but I rely primarily on Amazon recommendations in their 'Best Nonfiction' section. Like you I have used goodreads, but I find its format unwieldy, mainly because many of the members with whom I seem to be simpatico choose to keep their libraries private. (I think it's unfair to tantalize me with hints of what's in those libraries if I can't take a look at them.) Likewise with Library Thing.

I, too, wish for an effective site devoted to nonfiction, but I suspect Vee is right that it is just too huge and diverse to fit the model of fiction sites.
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blue_jean_baby
Original Author
11 years ago
Thanks, I thought it would be a long shot....maybe someday!

I didn't consider the diversity of such a thing, because I was thinking about history books at the time. (Someone had mentioned David Starkey, which is what set me off).
vee_new
11 years ago
Dawn, David Starkey (very clever and doesn't he know it) has brought out a book about the Magna Carta. It was originally signed/sealed in 1215 so 'celebrations' are the order of the day. He also did a TV programme about it. You might find it interesting as I know Americans take it much more seriously than we do over here . . . in fact I wonder how many UK folk know anything about it at all. History, especially the 'old' variety is hardly taught these days.Article on Magna Carta (long)
blue_jean_baby
Original Author
11 years ago
oooo, thanks!! hope that tv show is available on DVD or streaming! I will definitely request the library buy the Magna Carta book, if they haven't already.

Dawn

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