Are you gonna learn about dating by reading romantic novels or real life stories? Well, if you are straight guy, you could learn a lot (everything) about what

Are you gonna learn about dating by reading romantic novels or real life stories? Well, if you are straight guy, you could learn a lot (everything) about what women want by carefully reading the romance novels they read. There's also this embedded assumption in your statement and in BG's that non-fiction tells some sort of factual truth about "real life." Negatory.