That has been me in the past. Not to my wife, but as a younger person, I only read history books and stuff (still do) and felt superior because I did that (I don’t do that anymore of course), so I would sneer at my friends’ fiction and stuff because it was “worthless” compared to “real history” where you “actually learned stuff”.
It’s a dumb mindset, and I definitely don’t feel like that anymore. I still don’t read fiction or enjoy it, but it’s just a hobby like any other, or like my thing with history.
Interestingly enough, I love fictional movies, TV shows and comics/graphic novels/manga. It’s just with books where I get bored extremely easily if I don’t feel like there’s a tangible connection with the real world.
I guess I approach books with a “time to learn” mindset, and not necessarily as sources of entertainment. Even though I very much enjoy learning about history, and find it entertaining.
I read a lot, too, just not much fiction. If you look at my Kindle library, I have bought like 50 books since I got it, around 10 are fiction, and all are about 30-40% through, none are finished. The remaining 40 are either history books or textbooks for my other hobbies. I have only dropped 2 of them.
I have a handful of fictional books that I have finished and thoroughly enjoyed: Hundred Years of Solitude by Garcia Marquez, Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa, the Harry Potter Series (when I was younger), the Feast of the Goat by Vargas Llosa and the Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe.
I guess in 1913 that was “you spend too much time watching trash TV”
Yes.
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The cliche (and, I mean, the observable bias) is that non-fiction makes up a great deal larger portion of men’s reading than women’s.
Buy her smut books instead
what do you think was in those ‘fiction’ books of yore?
She’s reading books called things like “The Cobbler’s Love Truncheon”. Probably about a cobbler who is also a British police officer by night.
That has been me in the past. Not to my wife, but as a younger person, I only read history books and stuff (still do) and felt superior because I did that (I don’t do that anymore of course), so I would sneer at my friends’ fiction and stuff because it was “worthless” compared to “real history” where you “actually learned stuff”.
It’s a dumb mindset, and I definitely don’t feel like that anymore. I still don’t read fiction or enjoy it, but it’s just a hobby like any other, or like my thing with history.
i want to bury you in iain m banks and ursula le guin until you enjoy fiction
Interestingly enough, I love fictional movies, TV shows and comics/graphic novels/manga. It’s just with books where I get bored extremely easily if I don’t feel like there’s a tangible connection with the real world.
I guess I approach books with a “time to learn” mindset, and not necessarily as sources of entertainment. Even though I very much enjoy learning about history, and find it entertaining.
I read a lot, too, just not much fiction. If you look at my Kindle library, I have bought like 50 books since I got it, around 10 are fiction, and all are about 30-40% through, none are finished. The remaining 40 are either history books or textbooks for my other hobbies. I have only dropped 2 of them.
I have a handful of fictional books that I have finished and thoroughly enjoyed: Hundred Years of Solitude by Garcia Marquez, Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa, the Harry Potter Series (when I was younger), the Feast of the Goat by Vargas Llosa and the Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe.
no, you must share the same tastes and preferences as i do. now eat these marionberries.
Gurgling