Who else has trouble with fiction?

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The funny thing is, I hate reading fiction, nor do I enjoy writing it, but am good with words. I've written stories for school and have gotten good marks for them, but would much rather write essays on what's wrong with people since to me, they're much more relevant. My mother says "fight your hate of fiction, read and write more because you have a talent" but I can't, my interests are much more focused around the real world. Which is why I can put down a book/TV series as quickly as I pick it up - because it's just too unreal.

^I'm the same way but I think I'm too lazy to ever write anything. Actually I'd more than likely write about a crime drama, I once did in HS and everyone thought it was a transcript of a real show.

I hate fiction and it's just so boring, but I like cartoons like Regular Show and whatnot but LOTR or anything have to do with Medieval Times that isn't trying to be funny usually gets me bored.

I can get into fiction, although I seem to have a hard time getting into, well, most of it since I developed depression. I used to blame it on the fact that my degree meant I had to read a lot and I didn't want to then devote free time to reading, but that's clearly not and probably wasn't the case. It seems like I must find the right book for the right feel and I unfortunately don't know when those things will happen. I need something in it to compel me. I get very upset when I see a character as acting 'out of character'. I understand everyone's motivations for the most part, although there are things that bother me. I have a number of books that I've read 1/3, 2/3, even 9/10ths of and I just don't go back to them.

I really like books that go into detail about social expectations and norms. I'm reading through Gone with the Wind again, and I still can't help but LOVE the book. The main character's a b***h but I end up feeling for her, the whole social setting is just so odd but they do such a good job (for me at least) of explaining it or just showing it that I love it all the same.
I like that it repeats itself often too (I don't think some things in it would pass current-day editing standards actually, too repetitive and wordy), as it hammers home things that Mead wants you to take away.

I quite liked lord of the flies. I think you got a lot of the message just fine, however the very ending seems to have a bit more hope that what you got from it in that it's supposed to show you that it is all a very childish society (since it's run by children), and that the mere presence of an adult, of previous society, then snapped the kids back to the society they came from. (Of course it goes to some very dark places just before that ending too, probably best you didn't read it if the first half of the book bothered you a lot.)

I've written an unpublished fantasy/sci-fi novel that I, personally, love the plot of. I'm not sure the actual writing is of great quality, but I'm getting it edited at some point (as soon as that person gets around to editing it). I'm working on a sci-fi short story too. I'm the typical writer it seems though, lots of ideas, little time put into writing them down.

I get hung-up on flowery writing, I don't like that overmuch. I'm not one for poetry much either.
What I like about written fiction above and beyond tv and movies and comics is that you can actually get into the mind of a character (if the author writes that way) without relying on good acting or additional music to 'show' you. You can read about it right there and really get inside a character. My own writing so far has all been done from first person perspectives.

I can get involved in plenty of series and movies, with a strong preference for dramas. Most comedies are too groanable, action bores me for the most part, horror is stupid or actually scary in which case I don't want to watch it.

I've developed a taste for reading non-fiction that I never had as a child, but I still have a hard time buckling down and reading the most informative stuff, like a whole journal article, even though I may really want to.

I have problems with /most/ fiction. Only very, very well written and acted things work for me. If there are any significant plot holes or cop-outs whatsoever then my enjoyment will be ruined; people complain that I'm unable to see past this and suspend my disbelief and that I am overly critical of movies etc which they allege are otherwise good. I don't agree :p So I mostly read and watch non-fiction. There are still quite a lot of novels, movies and series which are sufficiently well crafted and which pique my interest that I enjoy.

Only when they're going overboard trying to be realistic. I like satire. Maybe because it is not to be taken literally and that it pokes fun at the flaws of humanity.