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I love reading non fiction, anything factual like encyclopedias and scientific journals. I wish that I could read fiction like other people can but I can't. I'm not sure why I can't read it but I think it's to do with the fact that I can't work out any of the characters intentions (unless I can relate to that character) and I always wonder why they do things when they could have done something else to make it simpler. I can't enjoy books like most people do. Does anyone else find reading fiction difficult? Is this related to my Aspergers and if it is does this mean I might not be able to learn to enjoy books?

I used to struggle with reading fiction, I too could not understand why they did things that just made matters more complicated. Then my mum bought me two detective books where you got to choose what the next action would be. If you ever read Goosebumps they did it too. I think they had two choices of how you will continue the adventure.
Then I just started to tell myself 'this happens because it was written that way - and that's the end of it.'
I love fiction now like Harry Potter and Artemis Fowl.
I also love books on facts. I have a big fat book of random historical facts - it's brilliant!

I can never get enough knowledge to satisfy me. I alos love a good story. Only problem is I am a slow reader, and don;t like reading without a good purpose to the reading, but can spend several hours at time reading if I am interested in what it is that I am reading.

I like reading fiction. I write fiction too.

I just hate certain realistic novels or adults novels in general. I don't want to read about Charlie and Joan who fall hopelessly in love though they're both married... or how Tia's children were killed and now she's desperate...

So boring.

Personally, I read only fiction. Non-fiction just doesn't hold me usually.
And since I prefer horror....
Well I made the mistake of reading a True Crime book once. Much as I love my gory horror stories, I can't enjoy it at all if I know it actualy happened to someone. That, and I couldn't get it out of my head, parts still come back to me and it's been brobably 15 years now. Horrible stuff.

I don't really enjoy reading fiction until I've analysed the whole book with my professor there must be a point in writing... (But I loved Le Petit Prince and I really want to read it again because it's beautiful).
I enjoy reading fanfictions and writing them though (I mostly write parody actually, and read romance). But they are really short so...

For some reason fiction seem to bore me...

I love fiction books, but my favorites are the ones you can learn something from. For instance, historical fiction (all the facts in them), mysteries (they keep you guessing and using logic to find out who killed who), or books with characters with disabilities or something of that nature-- to learn about the disability... I've never been interested in books I couldn't learn something from.

But I like nonfiction, as well.

Movies are what I have a problem with. They're just so... unrealistic. I recently went with my sister and her friend to the movies. But I thought a book would be more interesting than a movie, so I stayed in the parking lot and read. =p

Personally I love fiction. I like more realistic though. I like some non-fiction and when I read that its mainly about ghosts or maybe space or a book for school. I don't have Aspergers so I could not tell you if that is a reason.

i read everything. i could not live in a world where there was only fiction. BUt i do enjoy it and can follow it well. i love the creativity of words and writing. I love turns of phrase, word play and metaphorand analogies, i love similes and the cross-sensory explorations that come with poetry. I love that cleverness.

I also thrive on factual reading material.
I read several books - non fiction and fiction - at any one time, depending on what i am interested in.

as a child i was obsessed with our encyclopaedias. they were some of my best childhood friends, and the section on the human body had these fantastic mapped plastic cross sections of the body's structures and anatomy. I LOVED it. my mother tells me she would often find me in a little space behind the chair near the bookcase which shelved them, intently flipping through for bits and pieces of information.

Dear Biro,

i have awful problems with fiction , maybe one every five years, yet the house here has 2k technical books. UNLESS its a subject that partuicularly interests me ie based on that. I can never understand what the heck is happening and also usually have no interest.

Good post.

It took me a long time to understand the point of fiction. I would much rather read about something that was real. As an adult, I am able to pick up on the philosophical undertones of good fiction and enjoy some of it. I still have a strong predilection toward non-fiction, though.

I love reading non-fiction relevant to my interests, sometimes I enjoy reading fiction but it would depend on what it is about.