His casual and arrogant dismissal of fiction is remarkable ("I’m usually looking for something more out of my reading"), as if something has to be non-fiction t

His casual and arrogant dismissal of fiction is remarkable ("I’m usually looking for something more out of my reading"), as if something has to be non-fiction to be educational, informative or have a valid lesson to impart. There's obviously nothing wrong with a drive for continual self improvement, but it does seem to me (entirely anecdotally) that there are too many people following this track have a very functional, one dimensional approach to it which this seems to typify.