/lit/ - Literature

>>22412685
FPBP

>Reading the documented torment of reality is the greatest pleasure
>Spicy

>>20442114
By reading non fiction mostly, and some culture-shaping classics, instead of mainstream pop fiction which aims at escapism.

By highlighting key points and taking notes on the margins, judging every new piece of information. You should be able to summarize the main points of every book you read, use your notes to easily retrieve info in the future, and form a personal opinion on the book's relevance for the topic discussed and for your own position in the world.

By comparing and integrating the opinions you have on all books you read in order to shape your worldview. To the point that if you engage in a debate or conversation about a topic, you can first explain your personal opinion, then properly quote the authors or studies which inspired your conclusions, then your own thought process to reach said opinion.

Reading will not necessarily make you "more intelligent" but it can shape your intellect if you do it properly. So you put your intelligence to actual use.

Pic related is just a meme. Non-fiction has its uses, but the joke still has a point.

>>19207730
>novels
>poetry
Faggot

>>17888777
Only if you read fiction

>>17438120
Fiction is for women and brainlets that want to escape reality. True high IQ patricians read non-fiction only.

>>16093714
<1% fiction, >99% non-fiction. I'm an autist.

I want to hear /lit/'s opinions on this. Personally I think literature is pretty much just entertainment, equivalent to a videogame or TV show most of the time. Occasionally it can make you think about cool questions but there's never any actual meaning in a fictional anecdote beyond what the author feels at the moment. And most writers of fiction are uneducated and know nothing, living for fantasy. TLDR nonfiction is superior.

In highschool though I had a psychoanalytic phase and thought that deep psychological secrets were in narrative. But I realize now that's just an English department cope.

Fiction is no better than playing videogames. Why even bother with it? Because pic related: you're weak and want to escape.

>>15597358
There is always more non-fiction to learn, as reality is an infinite fractal of complexity.

Only brainlet fiction readers get tired of reading because Harry Potter can only entertain you so much.

>>15587455
>it immerses me more

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Computer Information Systems (really a business degree with IT courses in the latter half)
currently thinking of getting a Masters of Accounting / start nursing prereqs if I can't get a job soon
Mumbo Jumbo

>>15411724
Women and bugmen read fiction, men read non-fiction

>casual reading
faggot, go hardcore nonfiction only 1 book a week

>>14656973
Stop reading fiction

>>14452820
>modern fiction
>not reading modern non-fiction

Which book should I read? The Mariam Joseph one or the one by John Mitchell(wooden books)

Fiction is for children and women

>reading fiction

>>14186612
>I've been just reading as much fiction as possible.
Pic related