Would you rather read a fiction or a non-fiction novel? The same question applies to movies.

Explain your reasons.

Yes

I would rather read a fictional novel because my mind likes to be taken away rather than be bored to death. I like non-fictional movies because I'm always in awe of events that really happen.

You will know the ture and the ture will set you free.

Fiction novel, the sky is the limit and I have a very creative imagination. Still, I do read reference books though.

I write fiction but I'm OK with reading either. I do have a fondness for recurring characters, though, and most of them tend to be fictional. Not sure that "The Amazing Adventures of Sen. Larry Craig" would do much for me.

I used to read a lot of fictional works, but I've migrated to non-fiction as of the last couple of years. There's no particular reason for why that is, though.

Fiction....I like the escape from the real world

both

Science Geek in the main here ...

Life science, all natural and otherwise medicine, quantums, weather, geology, history, biographies, how~tos, quotes, MANY et ceteras here ...

Fiction:

Strictly the cartoons ma'am ... funny dat, I likes mah funnies ...

Both. Depends.

I love a Non-Fiction book that is broken up into lots of small chapters/segments, to keep by the loo. At the moment i have there a book called The Know It All, by A.J Jacobs. He read the entire Encylopedia Brittanica, start to end, and picked out particular parts to write about. Perfect.

i read fiction a lot more as i love not being grounded in reality by reading them

but i do like some nonfiction books though. the book Scar Tissue by Anthony Keidis (the lead singer of The Red Hot Chilli Peppers) was absolutely amazing

non-fiction...

I tried to read that once, but it was just out of my reach in the stall next to me.

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I love a good fiction novel, but I have a bookshelf full of non fiction and love to read on and off line magazines and newspapers. I like a good movie as much as anybody, but watch many, many documentaries.

Fiction, biographies and autobiographies.

I find some authors lives are more interesting than their works:

William Burroughs
Mark Twain/Samuel Clements
Hunter S. Thompson
Edgar Allan Poe
Herman Melville
Henry Miller
Capote
Hemingway
JD Salinger
Ken Kesey
Norman Mailer
Gore Vidal
F Scott Fitzgerald
Celine

Etc...

You get the point, could go on for days here.

Both. Depends what i'm in the mood for. About half of my books are fiction and the other half non-fiction.

Everything from archeology, religions, and military to gardening and animals. And everything from romance to fictional history to sci-fi/fantasy.

Both, Fiction to take me away from reality into a world of the authors making and truly try to enjoy what the author is attempting to lay out for the reader.

Non-Fiction, have read some great non fiction. True life events and figures spark an interest. Read alot ranging from the Sinking of the USS Indianapolis, to Caesar to a book about the making of the Oxford English Dictionary (sounds fairly bland, but its a very dark and sinister tale).

With book reading a true passion, what better way to find out about what events and people shaped the world that we live in today.