Well, I'm beginning to notice a trend in the books that I read: books that tell stories and involve action are compelling to me, while books that deal with thought-processes (could be psychology, could be job descriptions, could be "How To's") I find extremely boring and I am too often distracted to finish them.
Let's be more specific. News stories. Many of them involve events that happened where someone did something great or terrible, and I speed through these articles with great enthusiasm (meaning that I'm attentive, not that I pleasure in negative headlines). But after the first 6 paragraphs or so, after the story has been told, the writer often fades into an analysis of the situation and starts talking about circumstances surrounding the event etc etc. Here's where I start to get lost. Eventually I'll just quit reading and go on to the next article.
But if you read my blog often, what do you notice about my entries? Many of them err to the side of VERY psychological, am I right? So why is it that I take pleasure in writing such things, but yet I cannot stay awake for more than 2 minutes when I'm reading a book about web standards or good nutrition? Alright, smart alecs, I think there is more to it than the boring subject matter.
Going back to my battery metaphor (That's right, it was a metaphor. You didn't pick up on that?), I hypothesize that because my brain is wired to observe behavior and analyze processes, that reading about such things is very boring to me. It's like trying to put the positive side of two batteries together. There will be no connection. The things I am less good at, like... having an exciting life or being successful romantically (don't lol or you're a bad person :-), are the things that have the highest readability to me.
Has anyone reading this noticed a similar trend in your reading habits? Are there some books/magazines/genres that you dread and some that really pull you in? Please share.
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