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If you're over the age of 22 you're too old to read fiction and need to grow up.

>> No.15280313

>>15280293
Did you mean 18?

>> No.15280327

>>15280293
>>15280313
Childhood is reading fiction for pleasure. Adulthood is reading fiction in everything.

>> No.15280349

>>15280327
based

>> No.15280369

>>15280293
I'm studying economics, I have to read fiction to be prepared for my classes

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>>15280293
If you have this opinion of fiction you are guaranteed to be an autistic soulless bugman like Sam Harris. When these people read fiction they only read genre-fiction, not actual literature so they have a low opinion of it because they had bug-taste. If you only read fiction you need to grow up, if you only read non-fiction you need to become human.

>> No.15281100

>>15280929
Unironically this. Fiction allows us to live and gain insight into human experiences that we may never otherwise experience. All of these experiences make up the human condition. By having a larger understanding of the human condition, you would become a more empathetic person, which is hopefully everyone's end goal, whether consciously or unconsciously.

>> No.15281110

All books are fiction

>> No.15281366

>>15280293
art is superior to whatever shit you mean by non fiction

>> No.15281443

>>15281100
Why should empathy be our end goal?

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>>15280293

>> No.15281483

I'm 21 and I just finished neuromancer. Your move OP

>> No.15281500

second post is right. astonishingly naive to take the fiction/non-fiction divide seriously

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15281502

>he doesn't treat himself to a flight of fancy by getting lost in his favorite author's magnificent prose

>> No.15281695

>>15281443
In my mind, having empathy, true empathy, is the first step towards loving life and humanity, which is the "life affirmation" that so many people are chasing.

>> No.15282136

>tfw 22 so I'm reading every fictional work before I turn 23

>> No.15282182

>>15281443
It shouldn't fuck that anon, but 'fiction,' like Don Quixote, The Man Without Qualities, Crime and Punishment, Ulysses, In Search of Lost Time, etc. gives much better insight into human life than soulless textbooks. Also, one must realize there is no dichotomy beyond a certain level. Are Montaigne's essays fiction? Is The Republic, Zarathustra, or the Bible Fiction? How about Wittgenstein, Hobbes, or Heidegger? Presumably, you mean science textbooks are true 'non-fiction,' but that also requires an understanding of life, morality, history, etc. in order to have anything to say about it at all.

>> No.15282195

>>15282182
And that which one says is merely an interpretation and mine as well be 'fiction.'