What is your favorite type of book and why?
My favorite types of book to read are biographies.
Why? Because if someone whether living or dead has done something worthy of being remembered in the form of a biography then I want to know why. I’m reading a biography on Vincent Van Gogh right now. He was a famous painter, this I already knew. But what was his life like? I knew he dealt with Mental Illness and lost an ear somehow. But what were his formative years like? Who did he know? Whom did he love during his time on Earth.
These are the types of questions that surround the lives of every great man and woman in history. They were not born in a vacuum. Some may have been child prodigies like Mozart, but most were not born into greatness. So what were the circumstances of their lives. What made them great? I wonder whether scientists will one day discover some gene that can be flipped on in ordinary men and women that can somehow enable them to become great. I’ve heard stories about men and women undergoing some sort of trauma like a lightning strike and then suddenly being world class artists. I’m too lazy to look up the term but it was something to do with savants. But imagine if scientists one day found the gene behind such sudden savants and were able to switch it on from birth. I wonder how that hasn’t happened already. Would the world be able to handle a few million more Van Goghs? He was a terrific artist in retrospect, but his family considered him a drain and a disgrace while he lived.
I suppose a lot of this comes from another non-fiction book I’m reading called The Future of the Mind. It talks about the possibility of activating a smart gene. But I’ll leave that tangent alone.
I guess I just enjoy biographies because they enable me to see what is possible. I’ve read enough to know that almost every one of the greats had their own unique path to said greatness.
So I ask again, what is your favorite type of book to read and why?
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I like biographies too. I think it is interesting to read about someone’s life and what they’ve been through. I’ve been read a lot of books by women who left the FLDS. They have been through horrible things and I think they are so brave to have left and now speak out about the things that happen within the FLDS.
I don’t know if I really have a favorite type of book to read. I read all kinds of books.
But I really enjoy fantasy books. With fantasy, anything is possible, which is also why I like to write it.
Did you read the rest of The Lord of the Rings? Another great series of fantasy that I’ve read(twice), is Robin Hobb’s The Liveship Traders trilogy. There is magic and pirates and dragons. What else could you ask for?
I haven’t read the third book yet, but I will eventually.
I just love fiction. The whole thing haha It let’s me get away from life and immerse myself in a different world! On the topic of biographies, one of my favorite books ever is a biography. Agatha Christie’s of course, so amazing reading about her life.
You may not believe me, but I literally just walked in from shopping at a half price book store and while there, I bought my Mom an Agatha Christie book for a dollar. I’ve read Murder on the Orient Express, but she is a die-hard Christie fan. Maybe I should buy her the biography for Christmas?
Haha I believe you 🙂 if she’s a die hard fan she might love it! Its pretty awesome!!