Motivational books are better for youths than fictions, pls lay your hands on some.

they have really inspired me to take challenging steps that have been worthwhile

Comparing motivational books with fiction is akin to comparing apple with orange! They are both for different purposes. Motivational books are meant to inspire and challenge you. Fiction is meant to fire your creativity and imagination. It was Shakespare who said that 'nothing is either good or bad, thinking make it so.' It is the use to which you adopt the books that will detemine their utility or otherwise.

If you read John Maxwell's motivational books you will admire his creativity and the fact that he has read wide. Motivational books are good, fictions are not bad.

Motivational books. I don't know if daily living books fall under that category, but the motivational books I've read in the past one year have been about dating with a purpose, and keeping our hearts and minds sealed in this sex-saturated world. I bumped into them in 2003, my fave author is Joshua Harris. My eyes have been very much opened to things I thought were just 'casual' and 'acceptable'. The other series of books I've read are the every young man's battle and every young woman's battle. Another daily living book. Elisabeth Elliot is another of my fave authors when it comes to daily living. I have a library of them. Check out joshharris.com.

moltivational books has realy enhance my level of thinking.and also has developed my level of wisdom and speech

niniowo:

Comparing motivational books with fiction is akin to comparing apple with orange! They are both for different purposes. Motivational books are meant to inspire and challenge you. Fiction is meant to fire your creativity and imagination. It was Shakespare who said that 'nothing is either good or bad, thinking make it so.' It is the use to which you adopt the books that will detemine their utility or otherwise.

If you read John Maxwell's  motivational books you will admire his creativity and the fact that he has read wide. Motivational books are good, fictions are not bad.

I absolutely agree with your very astute and concise argument. Each has it's place. It has taken works of fiction to move my 12 year old from play stations and tv to becoming a bookworm. My own history is littered with great works of fiction which were an escape and coping mechanism for some of life unpleasantries. It was even the characters in some of these books who became so real to me that I got motivated by them to make something of my life and not succumb to the poverty that was about me at the time.

I have dabbled in motivational literature in my adult life and they did serve to affirm what I already know, but they have rarely inspired a creative thought in me, and so yes, they are incomparable.