Fiction vs. Non-Fiction

What to read: fiction or non-fiction.  It is a controversy that spans…my brain.  When I was little, the only section you would find me in the library was the non-fiction section.  Everything was there: science, history, mythology, health, all this knowledge.  Hence why I’m good at Academic Team, I started early.  The best part was it was easily written for little kids, so the knowledge could be passed without getting too complicated. 

But now look at adult non-fiction books.  Not the ones written like a narrative, the adult analog of the books I read.  The answer is pretty much textbooks.  Even if not textbooks, say if they were written in an interesting format, it requires work.  I can’t read an actual book about physics without encountering math and science at advanced levels.  Now that is great, but it is not light reading.  Not something I reach for when I want to relax and read. 

And that is why I mostly read fiction now.  One can say non-fiction is intricacy that is unattainable while fiction is intricacy that is attainable.  Novels can have complicated plots, but they are tailored to be read by most people.  Fiction is accessible to all, while non-fiction is only accessible to people who understand background info.  So for fun I read fiction nowadays, but it wasn’t how I always did things.