Fiction books are fun, but if the story does not pick up pretty quick or seems to drag on a little too long, I generally get board and abandon the book. Who needs to sit through tons of pages of the same old predictable things when you can read the beginning and the end and fill in the rest with your imagination, thusly creating a story that’s probably more entertaining than what the other 187 pages in between have to offer? Wow, that was a run-on if I ever saw one. Don’t get me wrong, there are some really great fictional novels out there. I have some favorite authors that wouldn’t disrespect by skipping pages, but they are few and far between. Maybe that’s just saying more about my attention span than anything else. Non-fiction is another story. Unless it’s a math textbook , or something in the same family, I can read a non-fiction cover to cover and not get bored. I’ll read about any topic from WWII, to quantum physics. I’m not a pocket protected, wheezing, little mutant or anything, I just like learning about things. Non-fiction is tricky though. You gotta make sure your reading facts, not some guy’s vague recollection of an event. Sometimes it’s hard to discern between fact or fiction. Some authors are tricky and convincing. Once I thought I was reading a true account of the evolution of our society till I got to the end. Then all I learned was that the Devil was polluting the minds of liberals all over the world and the Bible is the only thing that would save us. Maybe it’s true. I don’t know, but it wont help me win trivia games or impress people with my knowledge on ungulates or tuberculosis.
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