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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was in a serious slump in terms of finding a book to keep my interest. It seems like everything of my favorite genre is so formulaic that it makes it less fun. So I've been taking a stab at some different genres namely autobiographies right now and it has done a good job. Listening to them on my drive into work its like a 10-20 hour personal interview with these authors. I was listening to podcasts on this drive, but books / autobiographies seems like a lot better use of my time. [/quote]

That's a good idea. I have trouble keeping my attention on a fiction novel while driving. I just can't do it, as getting swept away in a story while driving is not safe for me. Radio interviews work though, so maybe an autobiography would work for a drive.[/quote]

The problem with this is you only get one perspective on incidents. I was reading an autobiography about two famous people who were married and his autobiography was so different than what I'd heard in the media and (I guess) from her perspective. It's cool to know that this side of things exists, but which one is true?

I guess it'd be different if I cared more. But I'm not doing reports on this or living in their world, I'm just trying to fill time. I do wish I knew more about the great autobiographies. Right now I'm just going by people who I've been interested in or heard a lot about. But I also see things that say "this is the definitive work". And I do see that in some books, like they take you through an entire era or show you so much about what made them, or how they thought about the changes in the industry. [/quote]

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