"The story and characters depicted in this movie are entirely fictional," read The Last Broadcast's end credits, "but please don't tell anyone".
The plan migrated north to Boston and west to Chicago, where members of activist groups, unsure whether it was real or fictional, read it at meetings, sometimes aloud, and interpreted how its designs reflected the history of black oppression in America.
On the other hand, a fully made-up novel can seem boring and without sense to some other readers, therefore in their fictional reading they try to find a grain of reality which brings to light the mystery in our world, like for example Carlos Ruiz Zafon's Midnight Palace.
The narrator even began to people his father's sick room with fictional women, reading Theodore Dreiser's "A Gallery of Women" aloud.
Rory Gilmore from The Gilmore Girls references over 250 books, so we'd love to hear your thoughts in the comments below on fictional characters' reading habits.
Though they are fictional, they read, in my mind, like more accurate depictions of the totality of what happened in Iraq than any of the supposedly factual accounts I have mentioned.
I had the book with me to reread while I was away, since it bears a great deal of thinking about; but worked my way through The Symbolic Species instead when I wanted non-fictional reading.
"The Officers' Ward," by Marc Dugain, is a short fictional memoir that reads as if it might actually have been written by a lieutenant in the French Army engineers.
I watch movies and TV, and read fictional and non-fictional stories about people all day.
UPDATE: The profile in question now reads: "A fictional character born out of an artists mind.
