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Do you read non-fiction?

"Information junkie" is *not* a nerd! I like information as much as the next person, but I'm not a nerd!

Now excuse me while I continue designing my website, read _Everything You Wanted to Know About Star Wars_, and play chess with the right side of my brain all at the same time.

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I stopped reading fiction since the age of 16 (used to read a lot of fiction before that). Well I did read volume one of the Arabian Nights when I was 20, but that's the only one.

I don't know why, but I just can't stand fiction anymore. If I wanna know about a fake story, I'd rather watch a movie.
 
RaVeN said:
For some time now I've wanted to read one definitive biography on Winston Churchill. Does anyone have a suggestion?


RaVeN
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I have not read a biography on Winston Churchill but i can recommend the excellent book he wrote himself called simply "World War 2"
It details his thoughts after the event and the things that he wished he had done differently as well as his (non) meeting with Hitler in Austria before everything really kicked off.

I'd defintely recommend that book as an excellent insight into Winston Churchill.

Lisa (1)
 
I read a lot of non fiction, my favorites areas are history, historical biographies, art, cultural anthropolgy ( how did folks actually live, not just the nobility, but normal folk) craft/art/how to books, some science, ( that area is somewhat diverse) the paranormal, historical costuming, animal husbandry, & so on and so forth.
one of my favorites is 'Lost country life' which is out of print but I would grab and run with it if the house was on fire.
I liked the Roberts series, my favorite of that series was 'seth speaks'
apparently I am also seriously twisted as I read things like 'how we die'
which is exactly what it is about, how the human body physically dies.
I also seem to haven't ever met a book I didn't like....but that can't possibly be true can it? I am old and probably forgetting something
vi
who has been creatively misspelling words for over 40 years (sorry about that)
 
In between long fiction jags, I generally read non-fiction out of penance and a need to improve my mind. :) However, I really like Stiff by Ann Roach and Dark Star Safari by Paul Theroux. I find Bill Bryson a bit too irreverent for my tastes. He makes fun of everything, and does not seem to be positive about much.
 
I too read a bit of non-fiction, but its way lesser compared to the amount of fiction I read.
The recent few non-fiction books that I have read:

Freedom at Midnight - Dominique Lapierre
Everybody loves a good drought - P. Sainath
 
Being a big fan of classic films, I like to read biographies on movie stars of the past, and books about the films and the studios/directors that made them.

Also books on musicians and bands that I like, gardening books, books about cats, & some history. :)
 
I like biographies, about people in history. I'm reading a bio of Fanny Burney. I've never read her books, I saw this bio in the reduced price section and thought it looked interesting. It is!
 
I frequently read non-fiction, both for my university course (politics) and just for fun. ( :eek: ) My favourite politics writers are Aristotle, Alexis de Tocqueville, J.S Mill, Ludwig von Mises, Freidrech Hayek, Milton Friedman and others such as Hernando de Soto who have published one or two great books. I also like philopsophy, Montaigne, Aurelius and Plato amongst my favourites. Currently reading "Socialism: an Economic and Social Analysis", Mises's critique of Socialism and Kierkegaard's "Fear and Trembling."
 
In an attempt to try something new I started to read nonfiction not too long ago. Among the ones I've read are:

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
Dry by Augusten Burroughs
From the Beast to the Blonde by Marina Warner
Reefer Madness by Eric Schlosser
 
Inkheart said:
I love non-fiction. Current affairs, biographies and philosophy are my favourites. Oh, and psychology!
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Here! here!. Your non-fiction interests mirror mine to a "t." Can't go wrong with liking those.:cool:
 
Forgot to mention history. I can't help it. It's just too damn interesting! I have nearly every book ever written about the Irish Easter Rising 1916.
 
Oh I love to read biographies and history books. But it's been a while since I read one of those. I believe that the last history book I read was Templars: The Dramatic History of the Knights Templar, the Most Powerful Military Order of the Crusades by Piers Paul Read.
 
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