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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.
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