Non-fiction or fiction books?

[Mik.]

Which books do you prefer? Is there a reason?

I like non fiction books a LOT more than fiction. I never read fiction anymore. The only reason I love non fiction more is because you learn about real life and you're able to build your knowledge (your brain). There's always room to learn. 😀

 

[Gimgak]

There's a lot to learn with fiction, in some instances more so than non-fiction books. Due to the internet I don't find myself reading non-fiction books these days barring text books for my classes.

 

[Deleted member 7467]

I love fiction.

 

[Wrecks]

Fiction. Besides if I wanted deal with non fiction. I'd just step out into the world and deal with the reality it brings.

 

[AndroidOS]

I read fiction books a lot more than I do non-fiction. I just get more enjoyment out of them. I usually find non-fiction books boring, however they have been a few I enjoyed (mostly on computers though 😛 )

 

[Fiona1964]

I love both fiction and non-fiction and always have

 

[Deleted member 7467]

I love both fiction and non-fiction and always have

Which do you prefer more, though?

 

[Fiona1964]

I like the both the same it all depends on my mood of the day

 

[IAAM Radio]

I enjoy both equally.

 

[Kingofnot]

Seeing how I write fictional stories as a hobby, I think it's safe to say fiction is my preferred story writing.

Most the time nonfiction writers that I find are too dry for me. I don't want exaggerated details... just writing that doesn't make it seem like text from a history book. (Flags of Our Fathers, the book about the Iwo Jima flag-raising being an example of the opposite of this, and a nonfiction book I really liked)

 

[Migi]

I love fictions. I learned the charms of novels through a fiction book. It has a special place in my heart, LOL~ I did try to buy and read one or two non-fiction books, and I liked them too. If I have to choose I will pick fiction books because it feels amazing to indulge yourself in a completely different, unique, non-existent world. At other times I would prefer reading something real and touching like non-fiction books usually are.

I suppose I like them both. 😀

 

[Luke]

It depends if I want to read something real or not so real. Mostly read fiction though.

 

[InfiniteJest]

Why choose? They both serve their purposes.

 

[Medora]

Looking at my bookshelves, I see that I read mostly non-fiction, but have recently started reading a lot of fiction.

In fact, my favorite book is fiction, though an autobiographical novel: Betty Smith's A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, a portrait of the life of an impoverished, second generation Irish-American teenaged girl in late 1800s to early 1900s Brooklyn, New York (the "Machine Age," or point in time when America was becoming a developed country).

I am also quite fond of the work by Jhumpa Lahiri, and wish she had more novels. Along those lines, a reviewer of Miss Lahiri's Pulitzer Prize winning set of short stories, Interpreter of Maladies, said that the reader will wish that the characters of each story lasted a novel, and that is exactly how I feel as I make quick work of the book.

 

[Fiona1964]

I love the sound of Betty Smith's A Tree Grows In Brooklyn have to see if I can get it

 

[Medora]

I love the sound of Betty Smith's A Tree Grows In Brooklyn have to see if I can get it

If you can, get your hands on the P.S. edition by HarperPerennial, as the extra material included therein about the author and her work is also worthwhile.

 

[Fiona1964]

I love the sound of Betty Smith's A Tree Grows In Brooklyn have to see if I can get it

If you can, get your hands on the P.S. edition by HarperPerennial. The extra material about the author and her work is worth a look.

Thank you for that Info I am now on Amazon looking

 

[juststeven]

Fiction for the win 🙂

 

[Medora]

I love the sound of Betty Smith's A Tree Grows In Brooklyn have to see if I can get it

If you can, get your hands on the P.S. edition by HarperPerennial. The extra material about the author and her work is worth a look.

Thank you for that Info I am now on Amazon looking

Through Amazon you would have to buy the P.S. edition through a third-party seller, but can get a new copy directly from Barnes & Noble. Maybe one of the new copies through third-party is cheaper, though.

 

[Fiona1964]

I love the sound of Betty Smith's A Tree Grows In Brooklyn have to see if I can get it

If you can, get your hands on the P.S. edition by HarperPerennial. The extra material about the author and her work is worth a look.

Thank you for that Info I am now on Amazon looking

Through Amazon you would have to buy the P.S. edition through a third-party seller, but can get a new copy directly from Barnes & Noble. Maybe one of the new copies through third-party is cheaper, though.

Thank you for that checking it out now