How many of you read at least one fictional book a year just for entertainment?

[Lambent55]

I've been reading since I got a free Animorphs book from the Scholastic book fair as a kid.

To me there is a mountain of endless entertainment in books, especially now that we have the internet, people can spread their work without having to reply on a publisher picking them up. Fantasy, Sci Fi, Horror, I read all of those.

Most of my reading is done on my break at work, or just before I fall asleep. Sometimes I will activate text to speech on my kindle to listen while I'm working if it's a book I don't like that much. (If it's a book I really like I would rather read it, then listen to some text to speech voice)

I'm not quite sure why most people don't read for entertainment nowadays, instead the opposite has been happening.

 

[O.Red]

I read two a week

 

[LoMax30]

I used to do strictly non-fiction (history, current events, memoirs, etc.) but once I got hip to fiction titles I was

 

[Standing on business]

I read the Bible all the time

 

[ba'al]

Most the books I read fall under Tech, Music, and Self Help.



The last fictional book I remember reading was about this biracial girl who uncle sold his soul for a car and he ends up dying she inherits the car and a demon appears to her one day telling her he's there to pick up the car.

 

[ViShawn]

Working on reading more fiction. I thought i couldn't "learn" anything from fiction because I read a lot of stuff on psychology, philosophy etc but damn you can learn so much from the stories in fiction.

 

[TELL ME YA CHEESIN FAM?]

Been into audiobooks for almost a decade now
I listen to dozens a month
I have downloaded hundreds and also have audible

 

[Solomon Lurke]

Not knocking it but I never read fiction books. If I’m reading it’s for the purpose of learning or betting something. Now days it’s over for reading for me. I’m on the move too much so I got a library card and app. Listen to audio books or podcasts on the move if I’m not playing music.

 

[DetroitEWarren]

I was reading Deadly Reigns when I was locked up last year and I plan on finishing them one day.

It's about a black family who the oldest son created a medicine that slowed down the development of cancer and made billions of of it. His family was all drug dealers though and he helped them take over the whole drug trade in America. They were knocking off cartel bosses and taking their shyt over even in Mexico.

I read the first 4, I think it's 2 more after that.

 

[O.Red]

Not knocking it but I never read fiction books. If I’m reading it’s for the purpose of learning or betting something. Now days it’s over for reading for me. I’m on the move too much so I got a library card and app. Listen to audio books or podcasts on the move if I’m not playing music.

Most of potent and applicable lessons throughout humanity were learned through stories

People think "I never read fiction I only read to learn or better myself" means something profound but the real life case is usually diminishing returns

 

[ba'al]

Most of potent and applicable lessons throughout humanity were learned through stories

People think "I never read fiction I only read to learn or better myself" means something profound but the real life case is usually diminishing returns

You can say this but it would be dope if you gave some examples of these stories that are more profound and useful in our daily lives than non-fictional books.

I don't view either to be particularly bad but you only have so much freetime and I can understand someone wanting to use that freetime productively.

 

[Dallas' 4 Eva]

I'm reading book 3 of the First Law trilogy (The Last Argument of Kings) by Joe Abercrombie now. I pretty much only read fiction.

 

[Water]

I just bought The Expanse series to go with my new eReader. Gonna start it tonight

 

[Dallas' 4 Eva]

I just bought The Expanse series to go with my new eReader. Gonna start it tonight

I've read books 1 to 6. Great series. When I'm done with First Law I'm gonna finish books 7 to 9.

 

[Wargames]

At least 80% of these threads in TLR are fictional and the other 10% is cap. Reading them fills that need for me.