Thoughts on Reading Fiction Books

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What are your thoughts on fiction books?
I like thrillers such as Girl on the Train, or The Dinner. Just curious.

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I like sweeping, multigenerational family sagas…

But nobody writes them anymore.
 
Right now I am reading “The Reckoning” by John Grisham. Recently finished “Dark Sacred Night” by Michael Connelly.
 
Such as The Thornbirds, or The Captains and the Kings.

There were a lot of these written in the 70s and 80s and tended to have themes like rags to riches, forbidden love, family secrets…
 
I’m currently reading The Outsiders by SE Hinton.

It’s one of those books I meant to read when I was a kid, never got around to it, then found a used, hardbound copy at a yard sale.
 
I’m currently reading the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. I used to not be a big fan of fiction, but I remember Pope Benedict XVI saying somewhere that we all need a story we can get lost in. At 14 volumes in length, and each volume averaging around 600 pages, Wheel of Time is certainly a story you can get lost in! 😉

Well written fiction has a capacity to open our minds to new horizons and see the world in ways we’ve never even thought of. Just think of the impact that sagas like The Lord of the Rings have had on generations of folks since the trilogy was written. I often find myself turning to quotes from that series and The Hobbit (the books, not the movies. I was reading the books before the movies were even a concept) when I need an encouraging word or a new perspective on some situation that I find myself in.
 
I love thrillers and mysteries. I am very fond of anything by Michael Connelly, Robert Crais and C.J. Box. I really don’t like books with unreliable narrators though, so Gone Girl and others like that leave me cold.
 
Michael connelly and CJ Box are two of my favorites. Try out John Sandford and the “Prey” series (the series all has books with the word Prey in the title—Hidden Prey, Secret Prey etc). His Virgil Flowers books are good too (and an offshoot of the Prey series).
 
I’m currently reading, for the third time, the series by Stieg Larrson of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Last week I finished up a couple of newer ones by Daniel Silva whose characters are the Israeli Secret Service.

I liked Girl on the Train and am looking forward to reading more by Hawkins.
 
Waste of time.

My opinion.

The Secrets of Station X: The Fight to Break the Enigma Cypher (Dialogue Espionage Classics) Paperback – December 20, 2011​

by Michael Smith (Author)
 
I think when it’s a fiction book obviously based on/ a fictionalized version of a current event, they should call it “faction”, not fiction.

There have been some great works of fiction based on real-life events (“All the King’s Men”, the original version, not whatever weird re-edit got released later, is the one that springs immediately to my mind) but most of them are boringer than the non-fiction true story on which they are based.
 
Most of my reading is non-fiction. Most of the time I eat right and use muted lipstick.

Sometimes I read fiction, eat a McRib and wear purple lipstick.
 
I recently read The Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King. It was great. If you have read The Shining, read the sequel, Doctor Sleep. It was great.
 
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