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i was looking up book reviews and summaries.
particularly for a book that i want to read called "Three Sides to Every Story"
its about two men in love after the first mans girl found another guy, but now she wants him back. dont feel like posting the summary...but thats just the surface of it. the book is written by a black author.

anyway
i go to read reviews and such cause i like reading what others think.
to my disappointment there are many black women using this book and what it seems like- other homo-erotica as some kind of guide to tell if their own man is on the. quote "Down-Low aka The DL"

i want to laugh, cause its just a bit extreme. to use a book as some kind of guide on a mans sexuality or sexual preference.

do you think people should just keep fictional books as fiction, or should they take some fiction to heart? i get that some books can give someone an idea to create some kind of conversation.

fictional stories and the events there in are all conjured up from the memories and imaginations of people. As such they do hold a certain reflection into reality. However this reflection is relative only to the authors perspective on the issue. Taking a fiction books construments as a fail safe way to perceive something about human nature is just about the same as asking a person to give you advice on life when they don't know you nor know anything about your situations and have no sort of psychic perception and then following their advice strictly with the faith that it will not lead you astray.

Fiction is a reflection of reality. It shouldn't be an instruction for reality.

i knew a young mom who actually believed that all the soap opera plots were real, and based her life on that assumption.

needless to say, her life was full of drama!

but not much reality.

i myself use fictional books as refrences in explanation, but i do believe it to be a bit much to reffer to a book for advice.....

The SAT will actually ask you to analyze the situations presented in a book or passage and link them to everyday life. Lit circles do the same thing. Often, authors will write a story to tell a story, not just to entertain. That story can be about love or violence or just about adventure, but it can be applied to real life. Take, for example, Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughter House Five. The unbelievable story of Billy Pilgrim is only the surface tale. One of the major ideas in the book is the way war and death and destruction can destroy your sanity. This is PTSD, which was one of the first things that jumped out at me seeing as I have Startle Disorder, which is one aspect that makes up PTSD.

Anyway, I think Julianne Peters books offer some of the best advice. Luna, which is my personal favorite, is about acceptance, no matter what. I took the idea of accepting your siblings no matter what happens and applied it to my sister, who is a lesbian. I finally 'got' what my sister really needed from me in the form of a happenstance book.

So, yes, I do believe that the morals of a story, fiction or not, are important and can be applied to real life. After all, I do it all the time.

Books can be fun, but she shouldn't be used in real-life situations. Because it makes no sense! I doubt the author did any study when it comes to what gay men are like.._. Because every one is different, like there are different people. So basically, I think it's dumb of those women to use a book.

If it'd be a biography, however, it'd be slightly different. Not sure how to explain in English. 3nodding