working with your reading

I read a variety of of genres. I usually always read fiction type novels including some mystery novels. Also I read a newspaper like USA Today and the Indiana Gazette. Since I usually read fiction, if differs greatly from the genre of Malcom Gladwell's writing. With Gladwell's writing I do more annotating then with fiction novels. It allows me to organize my thoughts and write down any questions I may have. Fiction novels rarely include statistical data or research of topics. Fictional writing is more of a narrative piece. Malcom Gladwell puts his point if view into the book The Tipping Point, but it is also obvious that he has done research, observational studies, and interviews to complete the book. Gladwell has included real life events such as the various social epidemics, where as in fiction, a reader rarely sees this type of writing. Gladwell incorporates his ideas in the book, but does not overwhelm the reader with his thoughts. In fiction novels the authors ideas are not so clear cut. The authors views do not run the plot. So in both Gladwell's book and novels that I have written, their thoughts do not run the text.