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>>189609 28mm on 1.5x crop is the perfect "true normal," too. So count that in there. I prefer it myself, but this is all taste.
As far as primes versus zooms, the only zooms I see being useful are tele zooms that get used when you can't change your composition by moving around. But otherwise, pick a couple focal lengths that suit what you do and your style and go with them. Learn them, and you'll be able to walk down the street, even without a camera, and frame shots in your head.
A normal or a moderate wide (24mm on crop, basically) will work very well as a standard lens for almost any type of photography, except specialized things like sports or bird or whatever, and even there, I've seen sports and wildlife shot with normals or wides that came out better than the supertele stuff. Why? Context and the photographer having to do more than point the camera at the thing and let the autofocus and exposure do the rest. David Alan Harvey, for instance, did the seemingly impossible and made NASCAR interesting with just a Leica and a 35mm, supplemented sometimes with a 28mm and 50mm.
From there, a medium tele and/or more of a wide, and you're set for taking pictures.
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