I'm not a fan of fiction books.

Fiction relies on made-up characters, plots, and metaphors to explore aspects of reality and human nature.

I find it much more fun to learn the core ideas presented directly.

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Very seriously, what do you think of metaphors and analogies?

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They can be effectively interspersed to explain and corroborate non-fiction ideas.

By fiction, I was referring to hundred-page-long stories.

Good question!

Short real stories are fine, but I quickly lose interest in long, purely factual ones—especially if they lack any meaningful insight, like gossip.

I think what bores me about fiction is that it's often drawn out into very long narratives.

So does figurative language fall off a cliff past paragraph length for you then?

In terms of being fertile ground for thinking about things.