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8783644 No.8783644 [Reply] [Original]

>he only reads fiction

>> No.8783652

yeah but lisa
ive read :) gravitys rainbow :)
and thus :) sprach :) zarathustra :)

>> No.8783656

>>8783644
Speaking as one of these people, I can tell you that I read for escapism, for heightening my connection to others and their experiences, living one thousand lives that I never could.
I never bothered with nonfiction (incl. phil, history, politics etc) because whenever I've tried it's simply seemed to me like common sense. Like a conclusion I could come to if I thought on it long enough unassisted. I genuinely can't think of one exception.
If anyone has had a similar experience with nonfiction books and found one that changed the game for them, I am certainly open to recommendations.

>> No.8783662

>>8783656
I'm about to ruin reading for you: there's no element of any work of fiction you couldn't eventually imagine, given enough time.

>> No.8783664
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8783664

>>8783644
>he thinks there's such thing as "non-fiction"

>> No.8783678

>>8783656
Dude I don't think History is a category of non-fiction, its an academic discipline. Non-fiction is a bookstore term for, like, self help and shit.

>> No.8783683

>>8783662
And given enough time monkeys would type out Hamlet. Thankfully Shakespeare already did that for us.

>> No.8783685

>>8783678
History totally falls under non-fiction. When you read a biography about a U.S. president, that is deemed as non-fiction, because it actually happened.

>> No.8783689

>>8783664
haha deep brah

>> No.8783698

>>8783678
It's a thin line, but even when filled with conjectures and the like it falls under non-fiction.

>> No.8783700

>>8783664

Projecting your fear of truth.

>> No.8783705

>>8783683
Wow really thats a deep thought. Glad someone else came up with that idea so we didnt have to eh *nudge* EH

>> No.8783718

>>8783664
OP fuckin' rekt for all eternity. Christ almighty.

>> No.8783720

>>8783664
this

>> No.8783723

>>8783664
what did he mean by this?

>> No.8783727

>>8783664
how embarrassing OP, to get BTFO'd by a frogposter

consider suicide OP, seriously

>> No.8783873

>>8783652
>thus
>sprach
Okay anon

>> No.8783909

>>8783664
Holy...I want more

>> No.8783930

I read 70% nonfiction. Currently, my bookshelf contains 42 nonfiction and 18 fiction books, which means I was selective about what I bought. I'd like to eventually have 100 total books on my shelf.

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>>8783656
I await your response

>b-but I wouldn't have come up with that because it's total nonsense!!

Yeah, no shit that popular ideas that permeated the culture seem familiar to you. Or did you not read the book on why you feel this way about nonfiction yet?

>> No.8784267

>>8783873
heh

>> No.8784295

>>8783685
>History totally falls under non-fiction.
Right. Because everything that happened in recorded history is true. It's not like people who won change shit to match events. Surely everything is fact, therefore it's non-fiction.

That never happens.