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To be non-fiction a book must be that, it must be true.  A non-fiction by description is true, fiction is false.  That’s why science fiction ISNT true same as historical fiction.  Auto and normal biographies are meant to be true as well and memoirs must be too.  No person can find or remembers one hundred percent of someone life so it’s fine if it’s a bit untrue one way or another and so long as the story itself is not changed by a large margin.  A book that is labeled non-fiction or any other that is supposed to be true I think should be around ninetyish percent true.  I do think as well half-truths aren’t good at all.  The truth must be told is a story that is meant to be true not lies, not half-truths, they must be true. A lie here and there is excusable only if you don’t remember the event or if you can’t find data on the event.  It is important that if you are writing a non-fiction book that you tell the truth as it happened not how you want it to happen.  I don’t think though that we necessarily need lines between genres.  I think they are useful if you’re looking for something in particular but only if that otherwise I don’t think they are beneficial for a reader.  If a writer is known for a type of book and writes a type he hasn’t before it is more inclined to be ignored.  Such as if Stephen King who writes horrors writes a romance it is quite possible it will be ignored by a large margin of his readers. 

Readicide

I think that they should let us read but what we want to read not what the ciriculum wants us to read.  I think we should get rid of one story and add one that people like but not Twilight, Twilight we should burn... all of them.  But we should get hold of some more entertaining books and not books that we as students couldn't care less about.  Ones like some of Stephen Kings books or maybe some other book that is well written yes but fun to read.  I don't think that we shouldn't read I think that we should read.  But we should read something more entertaing or something about our time leave historic books for history class.  Ditch To kill a mockingbird and put in The Gunslinger no one cares about how a girl's brother got his arm broken. No one cares about the fake Odyssey which was written in greek times.  Dont forget what happened no but its just not as revelant.  I dont like Literary Fiction and Genre would work a lot better.  Dont get me wrong i like some of the school books but at the same time i think that there are a lot better books about examples of good plot work and how the books are written than those written more than half a century ago.  I like To Kill a Mockingbird its so far the best book you HAVE to read but yet at the same time it is outdated since it was written by a woman in the great depression.  So in recap we should read some books that are old or that are boring but at the same time we should read something better or at least more current.

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