Playing tennis without the net.

I enjoy Matt Ridley as an author. Here is an interview of him, Matt Ridley: By the Book.

What genres do you especially enjoy reading? And which do you avoid?

I enjoy science, economics, history, biography, travel. I don’t really avoid anything, but I rarely read self-help, spiritualism, business or fantasy. Like many men I know, I read less fiction than I probably should: I get a special thrill out of reading about things that actually happened, or that are really true. Fiction, unless it is truly great, feels too much like playing tennis without the net.

Yep!