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Originally Posted by jwb
And if I'm being honest I think I gain more from fiction than non fiction. The same feeling you described is how I feel about reading the news. Yes it really happened but that doesn't mean I'm not checked out.
I think I just find an author's artistic depiction of reality to be more interesting than actual reality usually is. If that makes sense.
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I guess so - if you're reading great writers. For example, Henry Miller's depictions are often/always greater/funnier/stranger than reality, but I find most often that reality is stranger than fiction.
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Originally Posted by Chula Vista
Don't ever read 'Strangers' by Koontz or 'Swan Song' by McKammon then. Read both not long after The Stand and it's obvious that both were inspired by the [multiple main characters with no connection until they are brought together by a shared bond] of King's opus.
Both fun books but both suffers from too many ****ing characters.
imo
non-fiction = documentary
fiction = movie
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I hate that ****. I should not be expected to take notes when I read your novel.