Discussion Do you enjoy non-fiction?

I read them when gifted to me but i don't go my way to read them. I don't enjoy them as much as i did fiction. What kinds do you read? What do you enjoy about it?

 

Encyclopedia for kid and history book
Full of pictures and read like a lore

 

Can't say I do... There isn't much that interests me in non-fiction.

Well, I can enjoy historical novels, but it still needs to be written like a proper novel aimed towards entertaining the readers and stuff. Historical papers and the like are kinda boring, but actual novels involving real characters can be interesting~

 

Well, mostly emails and sometimes specifications and other work stuff; rarely something hobby related, like stuff on archery.

 

i loved almanacs but when i grew older, it wasn't as available as it was before.

 

Back when internet was really slow, my hobby was reading the Encyclopedia and Almanacs. I don't really enjoy fiction much back then and hate Disney songs, I used to skip the musical numbers. It's the total opposite now. Fiction all the way baby! I still like to watch some educational materials, but bot on writing. It just saves so much time and more fun.

 

Yes very much but my favorites would be history books , a non-fiction fiction

 

Yeah I enjoy an occasional non-fiction book every now and then. Although my go to are subjects and topics which I'm interested in

 

the only non-fiction things that I like are probably encyclopedias, animal documentaries, and science books especially the space-related ones (those with images).

 

Every Dan brown book, I like it.

 

i have a lot of history books laying around

 

We have collection of Almanacs from 2002 to 2012. My parents bought them for me when I was a baby. Encyclopedia and Picture Books and such. They're the first books I've read that I didn't deemed as boring when I was a kid. Nowadays it seems that they're harder to access or it's probably just because i didn't bother enough. I haven't seen any from the bookstores too, they probably lost their popularity thanks to internet.

 

Biographies and history books are fun. Maybe those life experience/guide books too? Not much of an encyclopedia kid tho as I didn't get those when I was younger.

 

yes~
there book about law introduction, agrarian law, constitution law, history books, some religion books, game magazines from decades ago, random general knowledge similar to encyclopedia, documentary on bloody dark history ( such as bloody rebellion and nanking), English grammar, English to Bahasa Indonesia dictionary, Indonesia dictionary, Japanese to Indonesia dictionary, Indonesia grammar ( with it prose, affix, prefix, suffix, localization rules and bunch of those stuff), Germany to Indonesia dictionary, newspaper (but this cat stopped subscription long time ago), supernatural theme magazines (yes such thing exist back then) etc~
it was interesting read~ there also politic theme book~ there one book about creating manga or comic with how to create storyboard, panel, some tips and trick dunno where it goes~ some book about alien conspiracy theories.... it was funny book still it interesting~ Poem compilation from this cat country well known figures, hmm it like history of poem, this cat still can't understand poem but it nice from history pov~ cooking book mainly this cat country recipes~ herbal book, it contain this cat country list of herbal plants how to make some tested, safe herbal.... btw it contain viagra herbal for men also for women.... and herbal aphrodisiac.... dunno why it contain such stuff... lul~ regional traditional song, it from time this cat on elementary school, it contain block note? also number note but this cat can't read the note only remember the tune~ kinda nice for nostalgia~

and bunch of other stuff~

 

I love it because when I read about time travel or when an MC introduces a technology. I always wonder how accurate it is. So I read technology books. Especially, like how people take base material to build amazing inventions

 

If the topic catches my attention/interest, i might read it. But it rarely happens since i dont bother to buy non-fiction books..

 

Does it count if I browse the wikipedia for gossips about couples?

Honestly, I'm always hoping to see some romance in history. I'm a big romanticist. People are suffering in every era, but what I'm most interested about couples in history is that they didn't live in an era where they could love whoever they wanted. They had to match in status, wealth, rank, ethnicity and factions. There were so many hurdles that couples had to overstep to be together. I like to see as true love prevails not just in novels, but also in reality.

 

I've always read a lot of non-fiction: everything from history books to biographies to science books and weird topics like photography. While the internet can sate some of my appetite for more and more knowledge, there's a limit to what's available, and for the proper in-depth treatment there is no substitute for books.

Right now on my bookshelf I have three books of this ilk, one being a logic book based on Alice in Wonderland, one about Japan in the 20th Century, and the last is an autobiography of a (Nazi) general. I've drastically shifted my reading from everything else to Asian webnovels in the last few years, but I'm still really interested in proper non-fiction books.

 

it is better to browse gossip news. blog and the likes.... while wiki do have "peer review" it mostly community based so "the news" maybe kinda weird~

now that explain few stuff, sadly it usually on hmm Opera or Drama stuff which may based on gossip~ documentation on world war perhaps your best bet cuz it contain plenty of personal story~

 

I occasionally do~ anything is interesting as long as I don't get tested on it~