/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.18668577]

Reading fiction is nothing more than escapism. Fiction readers are no better than animefags. Actually I would say they are worse given their pretentiousness. Animefags are at least honest with themselves.
If you are not primarily reading non-fiction I cannot see you as an adult.

[Anonymous No.18668582]

Fiction taught me that your judgment about me is irrelevant, and primarily serves you as an ego-stroking device. Consider killing yourself

[Anonymous No.18668602]

this post is fiction

[Anonymous No.18668612]

>>18668577
fiction is not fun to read
anime is fun to watch

[Anonymous No.18668625]

>>18668577
ok

[Anonymous No.18668636]

As a wise anon once posted on this board, non-ficition has to categorize itself with fiction. It is thus that fiction is the supreme creation and synthesis of reality and non-reality. Fiction captures the meta-narratives, weaves and plays with those rich senses of chronology, movement in event, poetry, and evokes a transitory nature of being in its words as they are set out on its pages. Fiction encapsulates the rites and damnations of human experience more authentically than empirical reality ever could; tales of love and loss run through rich folds of fiction's corpus. Fiction has its place.

[Anonymous No.18668645]

>>18668577
>unlike you plebeians with peter pan syndrome, I ONLY read nonfiction because I am a productive ADULT

[Anonymous No.18668647]

>>18668577
I read what I want, fuck you and your opinion.

[Anonymous No.18668657]

>>18668577
>Reading fiction is nothing more than escapism
*aesthetic bliss

[Anonymous No.18668666]

>>18668636
>Fiction captures the meta-narratives, weaves and plays with those rich senses of chronology, movement in event, poetry, and evokes a transitory nature of being in its words as they are set out on its pages
people actually believe this shit

go touch grass or something dude, reading Brandon Sanderson doesn't improve your life or your mental state in any way, shape or form whatsoever

[Anonymous No.18668667]

>>18668577
>Reading fiction is nothing more than escapism.
Correct and that’s exactly why I read fiction. There’s a world of mythology and imagination, which presents itself as an alternative to this one, which is superior and I intend to partake in thag world over this one as much as I’m capable until this world serves as nothing more than a means by which I can access this alternative more openly and with more potential.

[Anonymous No.18668675]

>>18668666
>reading dog shit bad
Yeah thanks for the insight

[Anonymous No.18668684]

>>18668666
But it does actually.

Reading American Psycho put a complete stop to my neurotic need to chew my nails. You just have no soul and will be annihilated upon death and seek to bring us with you

[Anonymous No.18668689]

>>18668577
Two points, the opposite of escaping is being imprisoned, so you take a positive word and make it negative.

We escape reality, you are imprisoned by it.

That said, I can imagine the novel by Maarten 't Hart that I am presently reading, which describes the life in rural towns, the beauty of nature, deaths in the family and squables in the reformed community as escapism.

In fact reading his novel makes me feel more grounded in reality.

[Anonymous No.18668691]

I watch anime read manga and philosophy all day everyday
I follow cat ear waifus on twitch while lifting and reading plato

[Anonymous No.18668697]

>>18668689
>I can imagine
I mean I can't

[Anonymous No.18668707]

>>18668666
>>18668577
> Brandon Sanderson
Not all fiction is genre trash. And your whole point of fiction being pure escapism falls apart when you point out how many great works of fiction like Ana Karenina construct worlds that no sane person would want to live in.

[Anonymous No.18668708]

>>18668666
what can you read to improve your mental condition faggot? you think you can rationalize your way out of depression? GAY

[Anonymous No.18668722]

>>18668707
To add to this, who have you met that wishes they were Hamlet or Gatsby?

[Anonymous No.18668730]

>>18668707
Anna Karenina is not a constructed world. it is our own world. Its difficult to imagine how reading a story taking place in our own world, means escaping it.

[Anonymous No.18668752]

>>18668730
>the Tolstoy teenager again

[Anonymous No.18668768]

>>18668752
Can you explain what you mean?

[Anonymous No.18668775]

>>18668768
No.

[Anonymous No.18668776]

>>18668775
>No.
Thats nice, enjoy being stupid.

[Anonymous No.18668784]

I wonder if those who critique "escapism" would think a prisoner trying to escape his cell a bad thing,

[Anonymous No.18668786]

>>18668776
>can't understand himself
>"you're stupid"
Haha, enjoy being stupid

[Anonymous No.18668814]

>>18668577
>Reading fiction is nothing more than escapism.
Not really, it can be instructional. The whole point of well written fiction is that it's realistic (even in unrealistic scenarios). If the characters act in a way that makes sense, you can learn from their actions. It's life experience just as much as journals or epistolary literature, it just needs to be well written, which is admittedly a can of worms since the concept of good writing is abandoned in virtue of empty satisfaction of impulse, which you may call escapism but isn't really escapism. Escapism has a utility unlike pandering and self-serving stimulation. Sadly we live in a time where the definition of all this, culture, entertainment, escapism, pandering, all of it belongs to the same maelstrom. It's the result of language itself being under assault.

[Anonymous No.18668835]

>>18668577
bros im not feeling too good. im way to hyper and can't chill out, as a result im not going to be able to read today...

[Anonymous No.18668838]

fiction readers are smarter because the themes and meanings are implicit compared to nonfiction brainlets who need ideas spelled out for them

[Anonymous No.18668839]

I primarily read non-fiction and primarily watch moe anime
Who /patrician/ here?

[Anonymous No.18668842]

>>18668691
>>18668839
fun things are fun lads

[Anonymous No.18668847]

>>18668786
Just keep saying weird obscure shit, everyone sees though.

[Anonymous No.18668857]

>>18668842
indeed they are

[Anonymous No.18668862]

>>18668847

[Anonymous No.18668870]

>>18668577
There is truth in fiction. Nonfiction is subject to change based on the writer, but fiction is the honest expression of the subconscious. You can ignore it and be an encyclopedia, but then your world is restricted to what is instead of what is and what could be.

[Anonymous No.18669545]

anything other than procreation and working to provide food for your family is escapism.

[Anonymous No.18670010]

>>18668691
>bro I just heckin' love lifting big weights and reading philosophyerino then watching my favorite gamers with my zoomer friends
kys

[Anonymous No.18670017]

>>18668839
>I primarily read non-fiction and primarily watch moe anime
Yes, everyone knows non-fiction readers are fat faggot trannies in real life.

[Anonymous No.18670161]

>>18668839
> fun
I unironically can’t remember the last time I had fun

[Anonymous No.18670310]

>all you anons think there is an actual difference between fiction and non-fiction
ngmi

[Anonymous No.18671037]

>>18668577
>I cannot see you as an adult

Look, I know this is a bait thread and all, but what self respecting adult actively gives a shit what other people do with their free time?

Kill yourself OP. You childish fuck.

[Anonymous No.18671222]

>be me
>life sucks
>need to escape
>lots of anons say fiction is just escapism
>read the tunnel
>read hunger
>read the stranger
>read infinite jest
Fuck you, you all lied to me, but thanks for tying the noose.

[Anonymous No.18671518]

Fiction is just a way to tell ideas in an interesting, funny way.

Not everything has to be told in a boring a way.

[Anonymous No.18671529]

>>18668577
>ENTERTAINMENT BAD!

Oh would you please fucking garrote yourself?

[Anonymous No.18671560]

I keep seeing this stupid sentiment posted and I know its bait but do any of you fuckers realize that you're going to die and your achievements will mean mostly nothing because you spent too much time on internet bullshit while people will still read Shakespeare centuries later?

[Anonymous No.18671563]

>>18671518
poooopah!

[None !!lZetafI6z8s No.18671565]

>>18668577
only valuing non-fiction is considered a trait indicative of autism, just saying OP

[Anonymous No.18671588]

>>18668577
OP eats ass with the burning desire to hit a turd.

[Anonymous No.18671752]

>>18668839
Autistic moenigger color me suprised

[Anonymous No.18673190]

>>18670017
>>18671752
seethe harder plebs