/lit/ - Literature

>>4700853
Reading fiction is valuable because it gives us deep and imaginative distractions from this otherwise dead and intolerable life

reading fiction is worthless. i thought we've been through this.

>>4700858
maybe for worthless people

>>4700858

>reading fiction is worthless

You must be a barrel of fun at parties

>>4700858
What has worth in this world then?

>>4700856
why read then. you sound like a drug user. from your perspective you may as well just spend your life with easier and more absorbing distractions like LSD. isn't fiction based off of life and written not to escape from it but to explore it and present it more fully?
also
>dead life
>dead
>life
I think you're confused

>>4700858

Someone's bitter their mom only bought them shit-tier genre fiction as a child

>>4700881
>isn't fiction based off of life and written not to escape from it but to explore it and present it more fully

Many drug users would say the same thing. It's escapism and exploring "deeper" part of consciousness.

>>4700881

>you sound like a drug user
>posts pictures of DFW

you're silly

>>4700881
you can't drop acid erryday, you're too tired the day after, and if you dropped anyways you'd be on the bus to badtrip station

>>4700884

I'd berry my dick so deep in Mary Crawley's crumpet bum only King Arthur could pull it back out

the only opinion i'm going to input is this:

avatarfags are shit.

You gotta diversify, nigga

Reading only fiction or only non-fiction would be like eating only one kind of food all the time.

>>4700922

>Reading only fiction or only non-fiction would be like eating only one kind of food all the time

Very true, but a lot of people prefer one over the other.

>>4700858

>>4700966
Epicpwnge

>>4700966

REKT

>>4700966

Doesn't change the fact that the vast majority of genre fiction is either a mishmash of recycled tropes, borderline plagiarism, or downright garbage.

That guy was a prick though. If anyone played the "art isn't for enjoyment or aesthetics" bullshit on me in real life I'd probably hook em in the gabber

>>4700966
>>>/internetpoetry.tumblr.com/

>>4700966
>childrens'
This annoyed me.

>>4700884
literary fiction is as worthless as genre fiction

>>4700966

>the point of art isn't to be aesthetically pleasing

anon who posted this image i demand you suggest text(s) related to this or you're a fraud

>>4701169

Lol ok pleb

Asking why reading fiction valuable is like saying to break down distance into simpler form, or what colors make up yellow.

>>4700966
>All of that autism

So patrician

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Does anybody know what fiction DFW admired? I finished Infinite Jest recently and went on to read his opinions about writing fiction.

What are some of his favourites that I could read?

Maybe some entry level ones?

>>4702018
>Does anybody know what fiction DFW admired? I finished Infinite Jest recently and went on to read his opinions about writing fiction.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2012/02/02/david_foster_wallace_s_favorite_books_the_sum_of_all_fears_the_stand_and_red_dragon_.html

>>4702018

The influence of Pynchon is incredibly clear. You might want to start with something relatively easy like Vineland.

>>4702059

Here's another helpful link:
>http://www.salon.com/1999/04/12/wallace/

He wrote a very glowing review of Wittgenstein's Mistress which you can probably find somewhere.

>>4700876
science XD

>>4702018
he was strongly inspired by post modern authors like pynchon, delillo (the eschaton game is taken unapologetically from endzone) and gaddis.
but he read pretty much everything from philosophy to stephen king

>>4700966
This is the best thing I've seen in a long time
>mfw the 'literary fiction' guy misuses 'laconic'

>>4700966
this is hilarious

>>4702087
>delillo

He was actually penpals with him. DeLillo have him encouragement during the writing of IJ.

>>4700966
i can't remember if this was me or if i've just read this before