>>24831408For fun. That's about it, really.
>>24831408Because some truths about life and society, about the nature of the world are best said through a fictional story. The actual circumstances might be made up, but there are lots of underlying thruths and rules and laws about the world to be figured out through it
>>24831428Not really. You're better off reading non-fiction for that.
>>24831408>uh, uhh.. it improves empathy!Gay and feminine.>uh, uhhh it is fun!Waste of time. Get a job. Video games are more fun. >but umm... ummm it makes you smarter!Doing hard math problems is infinitely more intellectually challenging than reading words on a page. >b-b-b-ut it improves your imagination!Gay. Imagining too much makes you a dreamy faggot who can't live in reality.>*kills himself*
>>24831429Maybe you dont want a bunch of dry stats and facts. Maybe you want to know what was it like to live in 19th century Russia or what was it like to live in California in the 60s. Maybe you want to learn about relationships between humans and their psychology and morals. For that fiction is better than non fiction. I used to read exclusively non fiction but at some point i switched to fiction and philosophy
>>24831439>Maybe you want to know what was it like to live in 19th century Russia or what was it like to live in California in the 60s.Read biographies and memoirs.>>24831439>Maybe you want to learn about relationships between humans and their psychology and morals.That's perhaps the single worst reason to read fiction. Every character in a book is a product of artifice, of the author projecting himself and his worldview on other people. And characters that on first glance seem reasonable, that seem consistent, where their lineage is clearly traced are the most insidious, the most artificial and untrue to life.
>>24831435>video gamesManchild detected
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>>24831435>this level of incel
> Avant que d'entamer notre troisième et dernière question, quelles sont lesrègles de l'art d'écrire le roman ? nous devons, ce me semble, répondre à laperpétuelle objection de quelques esprits atrabilaires, qui, pour se donner levernis d'une morale, dont souvent leur cœur est bien loin, ne cessent de vousdire, à quoi servent les romans ?A quoi ils servent, hommes hypocrites et pervers ? car vous seuls faites cetteridicule question ; ils servent à vous peindre tels que vous êtes, orgueilleuxindividus qui voulez vous soustraire au pinceau, parce que vous en redoutezles effets : le roman étant, s'il est possible de s'exprimer ainsi, le tableau desmœurs séculaires, est aussi essentiel que l'histoire, au philosophe qui veutconnaître l'homme ; car le burin de l'une ne le peint que lorsqu'il se fait voir,et alors ce n'est plus lui ; l'ambition, l'orgueil couvrent son front d'un masquequi ne nous représente que ces deux passions, et non l'homme ; le pinceaudu roman, au contraire, le saisit dans son intérieur... le prend quand il quittece masque, et l'esquisse, bien plus intéressante, est en même temps bien plusvraie, voilà l'utilité des romans ; froids censeurs qui ne les aimez pas, vousressemblez à ce cul-de-jatte qui disait aussi, et pourquoi fait-on desportraits ?
>>24831429no one cares you can recite non-fiction trivia to impress your pseud friends mr. soulless bugman
>>24831460I feel like fiction does a better job at the thing in question than memoirs, biographies certainly>2nd part....what? Its not anymore artificial than characters in biographies
when I was an ignorant retard I didn't care for fiction either
>>24831435hey retard youre supposed to wait for the angry replies to come in before you drop the copypasta
>>24831408goat car selfie
>>24831460>the most artificial and untrue to lifesuch as pretending as though second-hand sources is a substitution for knowing the living man. A fictional character is more authentic, precisely because it is the author himself channeling his living vision into them. A non-fiction writer is still a storyteller, by the way. But they are always limited by a degree of separation from their subject, due to having to adhere to historical facts instead of outright saying why they believe such things to be important. You don’t write a whole book on geology or JFK’s family unless you have something (an opinion, or rather an artistic vision) to say. It is not coincidence why beloved historical figures have so many objectively false stories and myths attached to them. Their legacy has superseded the facts, and our desire to learn more about them (by reading nonfiction) is in essence a roundabout way of trying to find more myth-building material. And biography writers always oblige, their careers depend on it.It is only in fiction where the mythical can directly engage with the historical, without pretension or obsession with factual accuracy. No one gives a shit about the facts unless they align with our preconceived stories built around these people. To say otherwise is just to admit pure stupidity, a complete denial of a truth so simple even children can grasp it.
>>24831408because of the point of reading, like anything else, is to enjoy yourself.
>/v/ermin zoomer brainrotted by short-form content is the retard behind this bait threadGo back
>>24831408We humans are a storytelling race. Picture a landscape. A vibrant, starry sky, unmarred by pollution or city lights. And your ancestors, perched around a campfire, listening to one of their own weave a world out of whole cloth while the wolves circled round. These are your people; the story is your birthright. It’s good to be well-versed in philosophy and psychology and political theory, but far too much potential, too much life, has been sacrificed upon these altars. A full mind is not a full belly. Imagine Frodo, called to adventure, the fate of his people hanging in the balance, telling Gandalf, “You know, I’d love to take the Ring, but…I’m feeling a little directionless right now. I think I’m gonna read some Tony Robbins, listen to some podcasts, psychoanalyze myself for a while. Come back next year, and we’ll see how I’m feeling.” Absurd. Adventure can only be had, and an abundant life only built, through action.So, where does fiction come in? Well, never mind that you’ll find denser, richer, truer philosophy and psychology on one page of Dickens or Dostoyevsky than an entire bookshelf of self-help. Never mind that most political analysts would not be fit to sniff Orwell’s socks. You should read fiction because ancient soldiers didn’t read theory the night before a battle, they read the poets. The legends. Stories which not only told them the ideals they should aim at, but which gave them the courage to fire.
Storytelling is one of our species' oldest past-times, if not the oldest past-time. Not only does it add flavor to living, it's one of the few things we have other species in the animal community do not.
>>24831408aesthetic enjoyment and staving off dementia are the only legitimate reasons
Fiction reaches below the surface.
makes bugmen seethe
>>24833270huh
>>24831408What's the point of reading?
>>24831408Which guy on lookism.net used this pic as their avi?
>non fictionit just seems like propaganda to me. All these books are heavily embellished and might as well be fiction anyways. So why not read proper fiction that is GOOD?
>>24831408you read a textbook or a manual if you want to learn how to solve an equation or change the alternator on your caryou read fiction if you want to learn what it means to be human
>>24831408That jawline could crush concrete
>>24831468False dichotomy. Both are/were wise to the woman question.
>>24831408More truth can be spoken in fiction.
>>24831468I've watched maybe 3 of clips of his videos in my whole life, but I'm certain he was a heavy reader. He's a bright (cynical) guy pretending to be a retard and say retarded things for money.
>>24831408Because we're in a lull phase of the business cycle.You may have noticed things again feel like the 90s and early 00s, where all popular media (tv, video games, movies, etc) has gone back to appealing to the absolute lowest brow-dragging retards/ is extremely low effort.We are now in the profit collection phase, where you now pay for all the kino you got durring the late 00s and 10s. The expensive streaming wars are over as are the mass consolidations of vidya. So its all dogshit, and will remain so for the next decade while normie dogs continue to salivate and pay when the dinner bell is rung.
>>24834564Forevergymcelling, he deleted his account on .org few months ago, he was one of the last left lookmaxers of the OG era. It's so funny to think that .net started as some obscure forum with couple of hundred posters and now lookism is basically mainstream
>>24831408The same purpose as reading nonfiction: to learn lessons and absorb new experiences.There is no difference between fiction and literary nonfiction. The fundamental job of a nonfiction writer is to take real events, and distill them into a form that is not literally a 1:1 encyclopedic account with all irrelevant details included, but is a spiritually authentic translation that communicates specific ideas selected by the author. Good literary nonfiction writers are good storytellers, and good storytelling has an agenda, where you are being shown the author's perspectives on philosophy and morality.Fiction can do the exact same thing nonfiction can, and from the perspective of the reader, there is no difference. You're still reading about events you didn't experience yourself and learning from them. The only way you could possibly argue that fiction and nonfiction are meaningfully different is if you believe the main purpose of literature is to document events for information lookup purposes, which it's not.
>>24831408what's the point of reading non fiction? there's rarely a discernible style, might as just get the cliff notes or some relevant excerpts to get the gist instead of reading hundreds of pages
>>24833270This post has a really annoying faggy fart-huffing writing style, but it's the only correct answer.
>>24831408It fuels my desire to read non fiction and vice versa.>read historical fiction set in Rome>feel desire to learn more about Rome so pick up history book>now know more about Rome and want to read more fiction set there>repeat
>>24833270nonfictioncels BTFO
>>24831408Same as all types of reading. To kill time before you die
>>24831408Writing fiction is the only way to fedpost without going to jail
>>24831408to learn all the many ways men and women can be false to one another
