![]() Please do share your thoughts - and your books! Please share a book that has stirred you. I'd be interested in your thoughts on this - how much fiction do you read? If you do, do you find that it teaches, albeit only a little at a time, about human nature? Many of John le Carré's spy thrillers, for example, contain startling glimpses into human nature. And, by the way, fiction doesn't need to be from the established canon of literature. ![]() ![]() (For more on the magic of reading, I recommend 'Proust and the Squid' by Maryanne Wolf.) If you're looking for a justification of reading fiction, this is it - that we emerge from it as better rounded human beings, with a stronger sense of understanding others. The change may only be slight, but it's there, and it's something that happens pretty much every time we read fiction. It engages me in trying to understand people, to wrestle with human dilemmas, and at the end, after I have travelled over distance and time without stirring from my chair, I am changed. It lets me see the world from someone else's view point. 'Learning at Speed' by Nelson Sivalingam made me think, but it didn't make me cry (fortunately, I'm pretty sure that wasn't the intention).Ī work of fiction or poetry does something no non-fiction book can: it transports me. 'The Business of Venture Capital' is a good book, but it didn't stir my soul. I have shelves of them and of other non-fiction books. ![]() Let's be clear - I'm not against business books. I see lots of business book recommendations here. ![]()
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