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Anonymous Wed Jul 25 21:31:45 2018 No.11520017 [Reply] [Original]

Are there any works of fiction worth reading?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 25 21:35:44 2018 No.11520026 No. Not really. It's better to create than consume. Instead of reading books you should be writing books.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 25 21:38:19 2018 No.11520033 No. Reading fiction is for pseudo-intellectuals. I have never read a work of fiction in my life and never will.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 25 21:52:12 2018 No.11520079 Itt: fags

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 25 23:11:06 2018 No.11520364 >>11520026 based and redpilled

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 25 23:14:25 2018 No.11520379 Fiction is just for fun anyway, doesn't matter whether you're reading light novels or pushkin, it's all subjective.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 25 23:15:29 2018 No.11520384 File: 30 KB, 550x543, IMG_20180725_101243.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11520379 >John Green is just as good as James Joyce man, it's all subjective anyway haha

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 25 23:16:27 2018 No.11520388 File: 10 KB, 220x164, 220px-Theodore_Kaczynski.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11520384 This but unironically

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 25 23:16:29 2018 No.11520389 ITT: Pretentious pseuds can't see that they are being pretentious pseuds

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 25 23:17:50 2018 No.11520395 book's are gay

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 26 00:29:35 2018 No.11520634 I don't even read lmao

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 26 00:30:04 2018 No.11520636 >>11520017 go back there retard

Anonymous Thu Jul 26 00:31:18 2018 No.11520641

>>11520384
The purpose of art is to produce certain desired feelings in the subject that perceives it. These feelings are caused by certain chemical reactions. If book A is better at producing those reactions than book B then that's all that matters. In some cases that may be John Green, or Stephen King or John Grisham or whatever. Your pretentions mean nothing.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 26 00:40:53 2018 No.11520671 >>11520641 Please tell me no one sincerely thinks that's the purpose of art.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 26 06:56:25 2018 No.11521641 >>11520671 What is it then?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 26 07:01:05 2018 No.11521648 >>11520384 Joyce is a HACK

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 26 07:05:07 2018 No.11521663 >>11520017 The Bible (if you're of the opinion that it's probably not real like me) since modern civilization is built around it.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 26 07:20:25 2018 No.11521707 >>11521641 Imitation of reality, obviously.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 26 07:54:19 2018 No.11521796 >>11521707 then art has already been finished with the invention of the photograph

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 26 09:00:47 2018 No.11521930 >>11520395 your gay

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 26 09:01:49 2018 No.11521937 >>11521663 >since modern civilization is built around it. lol imagine truly thinking this

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 26 09:02:27 2018 No.11521941 File: 33 KB, 318x633, 1517767013640.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >ITT

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 26 09:27:28 2018 No.11522017 >>11520389 ITT? On This Board, mate

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 26 09:58:35 2018 No.11522109 >>11521796 > reality doesn't move Fuck off Zeno

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 26 10:05:37 2018 No.11522131 I only read for sick burns, bants,and ways to fill the air around THOTs who were going to jump my bone anyways. Reading has been a very fulfilling experience for me.

Anonymous Thu Jul 26 10:41:37 2018 No.11522229
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>>11520641
>yeah man I trust the chemicals in my brain to tell me they are chemicals haha that's science lol I bet you believe in a sky daddy
>yeah man art is just about what gives me the most pleasure what do you mean higher and lower pleasures who is JS Mill anyway
>Nah man that isn't reductivist nihilistic bs I concocted to justify my pseud-tier reading taste haha it's the truth

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 26 10:43:43 2018 No.11522233 Non fiction is absolute trash so....

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 26 10:53:40 2018 No.11522268 >>11521663 Nobody really reads the Bible, they just thumb through it until they find a quote that, out of context, reaffirms their beliefs. Maybe if they're hardcore Christians they will have a pastor read it to them every Sunday. Colossians 3:22

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 26 13:39:40 2018 No.11522806 >>11522268 plenty of people read the gospels

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 26 13:55:37 2018 No.11522851 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Rx9v_LaNN8 norm is a woke schopenhauerist tolstoyist that lives the ascetic volcel life with very few posessions, only owns a bed and literature

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 26 13:57:14 2018 No.11522857 File: 601 KB, 2008x1376, Gustave_Doré-_Dante_et_Vergil_dans_le_neuvième_cercle_de_l'enfer.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11520641 Nonsense, the purpose of art is to glorify creation, and by extension the Creator.

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