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Originally posted by: missFiesty_69

Finally someone gets it Non fiction is a pain and I would prefer doing anything else than reading one. The only non fiction books I’m reading are my course work books.

Not all of it is bad. There are absolute no-nos even in non-fiction (other than your course work ).

But I do get why non-fiction is boring and painful to read.

Originally posted by: LizzynDarcy

Not all of it is bad. There are absolute no-nos even in non-fiction (other than your course work ).

But I do get why non-fiction is boring and painful to read.

I agree to a certain degree. I really like reading editorial opinions ( in newspapers ), real life incidents ( which is non fiction right ?) and histories. But these self help books, finance and auto biographies in non fiction genre are really not my cup of tea.

Originally posted by: missFiesty_69

I agree to a certain degree. I really like reading editorial opinions ( in newspapers ), real life incidents ( which is non fiction right ?) and histories. But these self help books, finance and auto biographies in non fiction genre are really not my cup of tea.

Agreed.

I loathe them. They are boring because well crudely speaking, they come from a single perspective of showing off their success and looking down at normal people and to preach everything as if all problems are just some state of mind, which regular people are too lazy to understand and rectify.

Because they are written by people who are showing off (in case of biographies) or think it is easy to guide... All of them believe themselves to be very self important characters. If you have read Dickens' Hard Times, then think of the non-fic protagonists and narrators as Josiah Bounderby. (I once came across similar person in real life. And guess what, his favourite books were all biographies of big CEOs. And to quote him, he loved them. Absolute red flag I swear!)

I despise teaching autobiographies of narcisstic people... Thankfully, they all use formula writing, so I don't have to put much effort in teaching them and they usually all come with a self-proclaimed label, making it easier to avoid them.

And yes you are right. Those books you mentioned are non-fiction. There are many books in this category that actually move beyond this formula-based writing and have substance in them. If you love reading editorials, histories and real life incidents, you will certainly fall in love with the good stuff non-fic offers.

All in all, you have a better, refined taste as a reader!

Originally posted by: LizzynDarcy

Agreed.

I loathe them. They are boring because well crudely speaking, they come from a single perspective of showing off their success and looking down at normal people and to preach everything as if all problems are just some state of mind, which regular people are too lazy to understand and rectify.

Because they are written by people who are showing off (in case of biographies) or think it is easy to guide... All of them believe themselves to be very self important characters. If you have read Dickens' Hard Times, then think of the non-fic protagonists and narrators as Josiah Bounderby. (I once came across similar person in real life. And guess what, his favourite books were all biographies of big CEOs. And to quote him, he loved them. Absolute red flag I swear!)

I despise teaching autobiographies of narcisstic people... Thankfully, they all use formula writing, so I don't have to put much effort in teaching them and they usually all come with a self-proclaimed label, making it easier to avoid them.

And yes you are right. Those books you mentioned are non-fiction. There are many books in this category that actually move beyond this formula-based writing and have substance in them. If you love reading editorials, histories and real life incidents, you will certainly fall in love with the good stuff non-fic offers.

All in all, you have a better, refined taste as a reader!

@b: yup, that’s exactly it. I dislike reading autobiographies because one they are narcissistic, and two, I feel one formula suits all doesn’t work. People are different so everyone can and would have a different perspective, different challenges and self help books often tend to generalise which I don’t like.

@blue: I’m running away from such people too

@pink: that really means a lot, thank you!

Originally posted by: LizzieBennet

No but I just finished Kill for me, kill for you! And it was sooo good!

I downloaded another thriller called The Business Trip.

Originally posted by: heavenlybliss

I downloaded another thriller called The Business Trip.

Originally posted by: LizzieBennet

Are you just downloading books or reading them too?

Check my log. I'm sitll on that book I started. There's so many books I wanna read, I wish I could read one book a day.

Originally posted by: heavenlybliss

Check my log. I'm sitll on that book I started. There's so many books I wanna read, I wish I could read one book a day.

I got so many of my holds from my library - that I’ve been waiting so long to read, but now I’m overwhelmed at the number of books I’ve checked out and not sure I can finish them all, so I’m DNFing more than I’m reading this month . If I don’t like the book in the first couple of chapters, sorry but in my DNF pile you go!

Trying to go at the pace of one book a day, so DNFing books that are slowing me down

Originally posted by: LizzieBennet

Yeah ikwym

I got so many of my holds from my library - that I’ve been waiting so long to read, but now I’m overwhelmed at the number of books I’ve checked out and not sure I can finish them all, so I’m DNFing more than I’m reading this month . If I don’t like the book in the first couple of chapters, sorry but in my DNF pile you go!

Trying to go at the pace of one book a day, so DNFing books that are slowing me down

I just finished chapter 8 of my book, I like it but the last chapter was too long and took me half a day to finish it. I don't even remember half the stuff that happened now because I was reading it in the car just trying to finish it.

Hey Lizzie,

Will you have another reading challenge in May? I want to sign up then😊