The Glass Castle

I'm reading the book The Glass Castle. This is probably one of the first books I've had to read in a class that I actually like and it's not like pulling teeth to get through it.

That makes me question what qualities need to be there to make a story or a book enjoyable? I used to think that it was being able to relate to the story but clearly thats not true with this story. I have never been in any situation even relatively close to the things that this women has gone through and I'm pretty sure that no one I know has gone through things like this.

So maybe what makes a story likeable is when it shows you something that you've never seen before. But thats can't be the case because every story we have read from the Norton has been slighty boring and hard to get through at times and they all presented things I've never dealt with.

This leaves me to believe that maybe it has nothing to do with what the bookis about and really about how the author writes the story. So then, is there ever really a good story, or just good authors?

Wikipedia defines non-fiction as "an account or representation of a subject which is presented as fact. This presentation may be accurate or not; that is, it can give either a true or a false account of the subject in question. However, it is generally assumed that the authors of such accounts believe them to be truthful at the time of their composition."

This defination goes a little more in dept of what I thought non-fiction really was. I always just thought it was true. Like fiction is a made believe story, I thought that non-fiction was a re-telling of something that really had happened. Almost like a newspaper article or a biography only about an event instead of about a person.