What type of books do you enjoy the most?🤔

[WiseBooksIntl]

1) A book that teaches something useful (May be a skill development)

2) A book that tells an entertaining story (Pure fiction)

3) A book that has both educational and entertainment value (A story based skill development)

[Sirtel]

Pure fiction. I have zero interest in educational books.

[Uncle Robin]

I think my profil;e summary at The Storygraph, generated by my entries there, sums me up well:

Mainly reads fiction books that are mysterious, lighthearted, and adventurous.

Typically chooses medium-paced books that are <300 pages long.

[drofgnal]

I voted pure fiction. There are a few educational books I liked. Isaac Asimov's "A New Guide to Science" was Fantastic. There have been a few other's I liked on physics (Hawking and Penrose come to mind) but for the most part 99.9% of my reading is pure fiction.

[Graham44]

99.9% pure fiction, generally sci-fi, action adventure and ghost/ horror stories. I do sometimes read non-fiction but generally as a physical book, I'm currently reading (alongside my ebook) The Dinosaur Heresies - Cold Blooded, Dim-Witted Monsters or One of Evolution's Greatest Success Stories? By Robert Bakker. Current ebook is Sungrazer by Jay Posey (bought from Angry Robot publishing - a great independent publisher, mainly scifi with the advantage of not being Amazon!)

[Sirtel]

I also read nonfiction, but not as books - mostly as web articles. And even then, it's usually history or science, not self-help or skill teaching.

[theducks]

98% entertaining fiction (no horror or all bad thing happening).
the other are mostly RTFM and a few fixit ones, but those are more commonly found on YT these days.

[SteveEisenberg]

I read about two-thirds general nonfiction, one third fiction. Most of the nonfiction is history, including memoirs and contemporary history books by journalists. I picked educational in the poll, although that's not how what I read is marketed.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by Sirtel

Pure fiction. I have zero interest in educational books.

Ditto!

But with one exception: Literary Criticism

[Apache]

Fiction is mostly a mix of Science Fiction, Mystery and Historical Fiction.
Non-Fiction tends to be History, Biography and Autobiography.
About 75% Fiction.
Apache

[DNSB]

I voted fiction. It comprised 90+% of what I read. Very little of non-fiction is skill teaching of anything that would be relevant in this century.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Uncle Robin

I think my profil;e summary at The Storygraph, generated by my entries there, sums me up well:

The problem with Storygraph, GoodReads, and any other site like these is that they get the page numbers wrong for eBooks. They use the page wrong page number the publisher posts which is the page number for some pBook edition. So when they say how many pages you read, that's not going to be accurate enough.

[JSWolf]

What about non-fiction that it just read for enjoyment and not for being taught something? I think that entry in the poll should just be non-fiction. That or you need another entry.

[nana77]

Someone said that by these times, "literature" is on detective stories, and science fiction..
Personally I read only science fiction, in all of its sub-generes always it talks about civics, and society.
I'd like this quotes from the Wiki:

Orson Scott Card, best known for his 1985 science fiction novel Ender's Game, has postulated that in science fiction the message and intellectual significance of the work are contained within the story itself and, therefore, does not require accepted literary devices and techniques he instead characterized as gimmicks or literary games.

Philip K. Dick. 1981. [...]"I will define science fiction, first, by saying what SF is not. It cannot be defined as “a story (or novel or play) set in the future,”...It is our world dislocated by some kind of mental effort on the part of the author, our world transformed into that which it is not or not yet.]This world must differ from the given in at least one way, and this one way must be sufficient to give rise to events that could not occur in our society—or in any known society present or past. There must be a coherent idea involved in this dislocation; that is, the dislocation must be a conceptual one, not merely a trivial or bizarre one—this is the essence of science fiction, the conceptual dislocation within the society so that as a result a new society is generated in the author's mind, transferred to paper, and from paper it occurs as a convulsive shock in the reader's mind, the shock of dysrecognition. He knows that it is not his actual world that he is reading about."

So I'll click "pure fiction" "_".

[icallaci]

I voted "a mix of both - a story that also teaches a skill" but it doesn't have to be a skill. I'll read anything, as long as it teaches me SOMETHING. It can be history or human behavior or dog training or genetics or artificial intelligence or whatever. Sometimes I spend more time researching the topic than reading the original book, so it takes me a while to finish.