/lit/ - Literature

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Why would people fap when they have a gf or a wife?

Must you suffer to create meaningful art? If so, is art not man's attempt to grapple with suffering? Is this why modern art strikes us as so repugnant?

There's something that is bothering me.

I want to be a genre writer, because I want to write plot driven stories and mostly tell entertaining stories.

So, I started to read some sci fi books, and there's something that bothers me.

The quality of the prose is pretty terrible, even in the cases of the genius of sci fi, dune, forever war and starship troopers seems to have average prose.

Should I simply watch the movie adaptations?
I don't think I'm going to miss much about the book details, after all, they're usually minor details that don't matter.

So, following this logic, It seems logical the only prose worth my time is actually the literary fiction writers.

Or am I putting in broad strokes genre fiction?
Will I miss too much if I simply watch the movie adaptation rather than reading the book?