How old were you when you grew up and stopped reading fiction?

[Anonymous No.6559324]

I'm just now giving up on fiction, I've realized I find it boring now, one fantasy land is the same as the next, and the only parts I enjoy are those that can teach me things. So I've switched to reading almost exclusively non fiction now. Anyone else in the same boat?

Also, recommend me the best non fiction related to my interests:

Medicine
The west (as in the american west, as in the Wild West, but doesn't necessarily need to be about cowboys)
Psychology
Economics

Also, general non fiction thread.

Pic related, what I'm enjoying now.

[Anonymous No.6559336]

>>6559324

[Anonymous No.6559339]

>>6559324
>one fantasy land is the same as the next, and the only parts I enjoy are those that can teach me things.

So read some fiction that is actually good? Tolstoy? Dostoevsky? Joyce? Faulkner? Pynchon?

Quality literary fiction is a method of teaching in its own right, it just presents ideas in nuanced ways through lateral thinking.

Read a healthy mix.

[Anonymous No.6559360]

>>6559339
Read em all. I just get tired of it. So much of fiction is just art for the sake of art, which I appreciate but can only deal with it so much. I want something more tangible after a while. It would be one thing if I were a writer and could enjoy creating the art myself, but after a while I just don't care about the damn prose and feel like the 9 out of 10 works of fiction I read leave me in no way changed or better.

[Anonymous No.6559635]

Bump

[sagve No.6559639]

low b8 no one gives a shit u retard stop bumping

sage

[Anonymous No.6559655]

>>6559639
How the hell is this bait? Just lookin for non fiction recs. or does it freak you out that not everyone has their entire self worth tied up in pretending to enjoy james Joyce and pynchon?

[Anonymous No.6560020]

Twelve years old.

[Anonymous No.6560026]

You just need a break. Over dosing on any one genre is unhealthy. I try to keep one fiction, one none fiction and something for fun on the occasional boiler.

Pikkerty for economics and the inevitable threatened right wing back lash for economics. Or go pop lot for freakanomics, as being simply written does not make something intrinsically bad.

Ben goldacre, bad science and big pharma should be on there

[Anonymous No.6560027]

>How old were you when you grew up and stopped reading fiction?
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[Anonymous No.6560034]

>>6559655

>how old were you when you grew up and stopped reading fiction?
>fantasy land
>o-oh I-I'm just looking for recs!

pffffft

[Anonymous No.6560038]

>>6559655
>disregards fiction as a whole, which includes some of the most influential works of all time because its "not gwown up lel"
>How the hell is this bait?

b8 harder m8

[Anonymous No.6560069]

>>6559324
This b8 is way too obvious. Please make it more subtle next time and a really enjoyable argument could ensue.