Fiction versus Non-fiction
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Fiction versus Non-fiction
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Storygamer88 wrote:I dont know how you can say there's more truth in fiction? Can you elaborate? I love fiction a lot more than nonfiction, but I just cant comprehend your logic, honestly...
I think the gist is that a fiction author will try to reveal some truth, if in a roundabout way, while a lot of non-fiction is colored by the opinions of those who wrote it.
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Hmm, I see. I think thats a pretty broad assumption to make about all fiction and nonfiction in my opinion. I agree a lot of nonfiction is colored by personal takes, like the experiences of a writer influencing how he portrays the characters though. It reminds me a bit of the Rashomon effect - what you see isnt what you always get, especially compared to others' experiences of the same moment. But I think nonfiction will still reveal more truths than fiction, even if fiction is realistic - you also get a lot of nonrealistic/wacky/unbelievable moments in fiction.Gravy wrote:Storygamer88 wrote:I dont know how you can say there's more truth in fiction? Can you elaborate? I love fiction a lot more than nonfiction, but I just cant comprehend your logic, honestly...
I think the gist is that a fiction author will try to reveal some truth, if in a roundabout way, while a lot of non-fiction is colored by the opinions of those who wrote it.
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I was a huge historical romance reader in my younger days, and I have to say that I learned a LOT about history through the books I read. I think most authors of those kinds of books research the period in history so their stories can be as realistic as possible.
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You may learn something but if you want to learn you should read non fiction not fiction.SparklingOne wrote: ↑10 Jun 2017, 23:17 I think you can learn quite a bit from fiction. As a big fan of historical fiction, I know you have to be careful with fiction as an author may take some creative license generating their story. This doesn't bother me much, since I nearly always look up items, especially if the topic interests me.
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while non-fiction is obviously important, i'm hesitant to take a lot of it as gospel truth, especially books on history. there's inevitable bias, always, especially if I see it's written by a white historian on, say, 1940's Mainland China.
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If you have ever read the non-fiction book Seabiscuit: An American Legend, by Laura Hillenbrand I think you would agree with me that had this been written as a fictional novel no one would have accepted it because it would be too sappy and unbelievable ... but ... it was true.
I am not into horse racing at all, but I saw a documentary about Seabiscuit which galvanized my interest in this one horse. This eventually led me to read Hillenbrand's book and then see the movie which was both totally faithful to the real story and, had I not already known the truth, totally unbelievable. Truth IS sometimes stranger than fiction. I am convinced of that. See the movie and you will be too.
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