>>7480914
I think certain people prefer "literature" (i dont know what to call it, but you know tolstoy and joyce and shit) to banal writings such as Harry Potter essentially because of beauty. I think that if there isnt some form of that "beauty" or whatever in what you listen to, read, watch, etc (art, basically), you wont really like it and will put it down. Even "senseless" flicks made for cheap thrills still have that attractiveness to them, like a cheap whore's lusty character and figure. You appreciate the elegant woman who you can connect with more and the sex and whole relationship is better than with the slut. Yet nonetheless people who do not value the decent lady, and even the others who do but still find the whore attractive, value somethibb beautiful about her, physical and/or characteristic (maybe even fetishistic amirite?).
I think a similar thing happens with books, for this example. Just like we generally only feel comftorable sharing ourselves with one partner and her doing the same, we only have so much time to dedicate to reading, and reading in comparison to listening to music or watching a movie does take a very long time. So just like the gentlemen will ignore the shallow and onnoxious sloot and go for the woman who he can be happily with, due to her greater beauty in comparison to the tramp, so do we reject wasting our time with stories about the adventures of little wizard kids running around saving hogwarts from the evil nosless guy, written horribly, and prefer to read the affairs of child molestors, written in spectacular prose. In a simplified way, guess who marries whores? Scoundrels and idiots. Who doesnt? Nonstupid people with a proper view of the point and components of the situation.
But all possibly sensless comparisons aside and everything, basically it comes down to reading a passage from John Green is mediocre while one from Nabokov is moving. The point is not entertainment, but through what method do you receive that feeling of contenment? Id say its through the enjoyment of those pretty passages and their mutual story, family.