I've gotten 2 books published, yet people still consider me a non-reader, what to do?

Question

I read a lot, but I've never read a literature book. I'm Mexican, and I teach Spanish to Americans for a living.
I'm fluent in 6 languages; I'm addicted to language books. I have my room full of grammar-exercise books in Japanese, Mandarin, Spanish, English, French, Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and Nahuatl (Aztec.)
I've had such a passion for grammar; I wrote and got 2 books locally published to learn Spanish.
I studied business, not English. But because I opened my own language school and got books published, I know many people who studied English or Literature as their major. They all kinda snob me because I don't know anything about the stupid books they are reading.
But I read A LOT, I just hate fiction. I love to read biography books of people who got rich, business books, how-to-do books, and world-history books. I think I read just as much as those people.

Just because I've never read any of the classics, or because I hate literature.

Does that make me a non-reader?

Answer 1

No - you do not have to be what is considered "classically well read" to be considered a reader and certainly not a writer. Your work may even be more original because of it.

Art - classic and new - is always in the eye of the beholder!

Answer 2

Agents will not touch anything that is already Published (if it's a reputable company) niether will they publish things that have been put on the Internet. Synopsis's is okay but if you upload chapters then no. Also with self-publishing you have doomed yourself. Your book isn't getting anywhere so you write something else and approach an Agent. They want to know whether you have any matrerial Published, then they want to know whether it sold. Yours has not, they wonder why and wont accept your work. You need to ask why your work hasn't sold. Self-Publishing can make or break you and very often it breaks you, now you'll struggle to publish anything with your History. I can't urge people enough to check every angel of Publishing and in my honest opinion steer clear of Self-publishing. Sorry to give you only bad news, but it's not your book that wont be accepted but you as well. I can't even tell you what to do and you'll not get out of it I'm afraid. I'm not an Author myself I work for the 'Dark Side', people shouldn't be so afraid of Agents we don't bite that hard.

Answer 3

Some people judge books by their covers, and usually those same people are the ones that judge people by the way they dress or what they read. Just because you haven't read a book doesn't mean that you don't like to read. I'm a voracious reader, and I'll read almost anything that comes across my bookshelf. But some people like to only read classics or contemporary fiction, or non-fiction. It doesn't matter what you read, as long as you are reading. I wish that more people did in this world, if that were the case, then I think that there would be less violence and trouble.

Good luck, and great job on the two books!

Trilli

Answer 4

In truth, classic literature is not for everyone and is sometimes not very good. I have read many classics, but perhaps not enjoyed many. There is definitely good classic literature and bad classic literature. Read the masterpieces, not the other works by the author. For instance, if you want to read some Mark Twain, read "Tom Sawyer" or "Huckleberry Finn." Don't read "Tom Sawyer Abroad" or any of those other books. You might also think about renting movies or checking out Cliff Notes. If you want to be "well read," you have got to bite the bullet. If you don't care that much, that is fine too. Ignore those snobby people and read the books you really like.

Answer 5

No, but you should definately get over your hate of 'fiction' and read some of the greatest books out there. Classics...heh. I don't much care for them, but you probably would. =)

Answer 6

Watching tv is simpler but I love reading literature more

Answer 7

while reading a written e book, you're stimulating your brain. You improve your reading and literacy skills and you simply in the process, are more literate. Despite having today's modern technology, you still need to have the ability to read.
While you're watching t.v. can be good fun, it is not doing anything to the human brain.

Answer 8

it makes you a non-reader of fiction.. it doesn't make you a non-reader flat out. The same could be said of them as Non readers of biography.

Your a reader. Plain and simple, and more of one than a lot of people i know.

Answer 9

NO, BUT YOU ARE MISSING OUT ON SOME GREAT FICTION