Jacob Shymanski

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When you're reading a novel, a work of fiction, and it's not doing it for you, it'll always have an aura of earnestness to it.

Because even when a novel is bad, you know that the author took the time to come up with fictional characters, to arrange a plot, develop a world, all to entertain you.

And it probably took them months, if not years, to write.

It's a little escape for the both of you, right?

The author and the listener.

And I think there's something kind of romantic about that.

Imagine, if aliens were observing us and noticed behavior that the humans partake in, they'd be like, wow, isn't that adorable?

They write stories for each other.

That's so cute.

But again, it doesn't matter if the story is good or bad.

But nonfiction, on the other hand, when it's bad, doesn't have that earnest feeling to it at all.

Bad nonfiction feels like you're being lied to.

Bad nonfiction feels like you're being talked at by an annoying stranger at the bus stop.