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Originally Posted by icallaci
I enjoy fiction too, and sometimes learn more from it than from nonfiction because stories can illustrate things that simple recitation of facts cannot. So maybe that is the connection people are talking about? I tend to feel manipulated if I sense an author is trying too hard to establish an emotional connection. It's interesting to see the different viewpoints on this (and probably explains why fiction that gets rave reviews sometimes falls flat for me).
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Fiction that gets rave reviews often falls flat for me too, because the characters just don't work for me. Whether I like a book or not depends on my interest in its characters. And pretty often the characters make me yawn instead of wanting to know what happens to them. Sadly that's not something I can predict before reading the book, the reviews and opinions of other readers are usually no indication whether I'll be able to care about the characters or not. So I've yawned through many highly praised novels.