Changing My Ways.
Lately I’ve been thinking about what’s missing from the way I read. I read a lot, you see, but I’ve noticed a definite disparity between not only the kind of books I tend to read, but what I take from them. I don’t really learn. I read for pure pleasure on the whole and it’s taken me a long time to begin to start being critical in a workmanlike fashion of whatever it is I’m reading, which I am by no means consistent with. Not only this, but I don’t tend to read non-fiction at all, which makes...
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(last edited Dec 24, 2012 05:35AM)
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Dec 24, 2012 05:34AM
Nothing wrong with reading for pleasure. You can still learn a lot from fictional thrillers as the author has done some research plus their own life knowledge. Many non-fiction books are boring as hell. Dry. Giving a critique of any book is about both what is good and bad about it. You know that paragraph or two people write after they give their star rating. You can compare the quality of the book compared to others that you have read from the same author or other authors that write similar novels. Like comparing David Baldacci with Vince Flynn or Lee Child with James Rollins.
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