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What percentage of fiction do you read compared to non-fiction? I read 90% fiction and 10% cook books.

I wish to change.

>> No.16093731

>>16093714
65% poetry, 20% drama, 10% fiction, 5% nonfiction

>> No.16093773

it depends
50% fiction, 25% philosophy and 25% everything that falls in the category of non-fiction, textbooks, dictionaries, etc

>> No.16093794
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>>16093714
<1% fiction, >99% non-fiction. I'm an autist.

>> No.16093806

About 50% fiction, 10% poetry, 40% nonfiction

>> No.16093827

>>16093714
What's your favorite passage from a cook book? I'm a big fan of this one from one of Gordon Ramsay's cookbooks
>Scatter the crumble topping over the fruit and heat the dish again on the stovetop. Once the apple mixture is bubbling, transfer to the preheated oven and bake for 12-14 minutes until the topping is a deep golden color. Remove and serve warm.
Peak cozy

>> No.16093832

>>16093714
Hello. I hope this message find's you well,. I read almost 100% nonfiction these days, mostly philosophy, history, political theory and so on. Just find an area or political philosophy/philosophy / so on you're interested in and pursue it. read
patrick deneen or rene guenon, or an epic if you want to escape prose fiction. The Aeneid is important. pick up The Aeneid fag,

>> No.16093881

>>16093714
Non-fiction is usually written in an extremely boring way. The last non-fiction book I read was a autobiography of a samurai.

>> No.16093916

100% non-binary fiction

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>>16093881
>nonfiction is usually boring
yes i read english language translations of works originally written in japanese, a language notorious for being impossible to translate faithfully into english, how could you tell

>> No.16093925

Nowadays, about:
70% philosophy
20% fiction
10% history

>> No.16093939

>>16093714
100% philosophy for the last 8 months. Before that I spent 4 months reading almost every Greco-Roman drama including tragedy, comedy, satyr plays the fragments and writing summary contents for them all.

>> No.16093949

>>16093920
If I am to read works in their original language, then I will have to spend an inordinate amount of time learning languages, which will probably be much more boring than reading works that have been translated.
Besides, that was just the last one I read, I don't read a particularly large number of Japanese works.

>> No.16093950

>>16093714
>What percentage of fiction do you read compared to non-fiction? I read 90% fiction and 10% cook books.
unfathomably based, /cklit/ is unstoppable

>> No.16093959

>>16093881
the only means you don't understand it.

>> No.16093972

>>16093949
of course. it's going to be more economical to either read books in your first language or to read english translations of books that have been read by english speakers for a very long time. you're better off reading Mandelbaum's Aeneid than you are any copy of the Mahabharata for example, even though they're both in translation, cause english scholars have been translating latin for a very long time

>> No.16093984

>>16093714
0.1% epigrams, 14.3% comedic drama, 21% tragic drama, 8.6% tragicomic drama, 56% Lovecraftian non-fiction

>> No.16093989

>>16093714
10% reference books(for cooking, gardening, etc.)
60% fiction
20% non-fiction
10% poetry

My goal is to be a writer of fiction, so I keep my reading focused on that. I do like to expand my knowledge base as well though, and I cook and garden as a hobby so I read up on that a fair bit.

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16094002

>he still believes in the fiction/non-fiction dichotomy

>> No.16094006

>>16094002
you are gay

>> No.16094014

>>16093714
What are your favorite cook books?

>> No.16094023

>>16094006
sorry anon, I read my full quota of fictional posts for today

>> No.16094234

>>16094023
that's a gay thing to say.

>> No.16094243

Almost exactly 50/50. The fiction is spread across short stories and a novel, the non fiction is just one book at a time