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is reading genre fiction a waste of time?

>> No.15839761
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15839761

Dune isn't genre, it's high literature.

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>is reading genre fiction a waste of time?

>> No.15839766

>>15839752
Yeah kind of. It can be fun though.

>> No.15839768

Reading fiction in general is

>> No.15839778

>>15839761
no that's false

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>>15839778
You're right and I was wrong. Actually Dune isn't fiction.

>> No.15839883

>>15839752
Dune sucked so much

>> No.15839902

thinking in terms of genre fiction is dismissive in and of itself

>> No.15839909

>>15839902
>dismissive
Not really. Even if Postmodernism breaks cultural barriers and mixes low and high art, there's still a sense that low art existed in the first place.

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>>15839752
There's a particular threshold it has to meet before it surpasses anime and hollywood bullshit.
That being said, you can't really go wrong with works that gained popularity prior to Akira and Harry Potter.

>> No.15839994

No. Having a story in a different setting than real life let's authors explore themes that may otherwise be impossible or to simply view them in a new perspective. "What does it mean to be human" is an age-old question but with science fiction the question can be explored with artificial intelligence. The downfall is that it can be easy for an author to represent the unique characteristics of their selected genre in such a way that it resembles a strawman fallacy and the author instead becomes a propagandist.

>> No.15840009

>>15839752
No, but Dune is boring tripe with no edge to it whatsoever.

>> No.15840371

>>15839752
>waste of time
what isn't a waste of time though

>> No.15840505

>>15839752
no more so than reading anything else

>> No.15840598

>>15839768
No sense for style...
No sense for grace...

>> No.15840648

>>15839761
>"He studied the tallness of her."

>> No.15840657

>>15839976
>That being said, you can't really go wrong with works that gained popularity prior to Akira and Harry Potter.
Please explain why and how.

>> No.15840676

>>15839994
>The downfall is that it can be easy for an author to represent the unique characteristics of their selected genre in such a way that it resembles a strawman fallacy and the author instead becomes a propagandist.
That's pretty much all genre fiction, it's one gigantic strawman for something or another.

>> No.15840795

>>15840657
anime and YA are cancers on the fiction genre, obviously.

>> No.15840929

>>15839752
Well, if you have fun, it's not a waste of time for you. That being said, genre fiction has much lower standards and fucking dreadful discussion communities. No matter how absolutely shit a fantasy/scifi novel is, it will always have at least a hundred people back it up because "it's just for fun, it's not high literature". The trick is to find genre fiction that's fun and literary. I think Dune gets pretty damn close. People here like Book of the New Sun, so I'm giving that a try too.

>> No.15841512

not if you enjoy it and it stimulates your imagination and ambition, just make sure you're also exploring the classics of western cannon too (if youre white that is, if not who gives a shit)

>> No.15841698

>>15839761
this is your brain on capeshit and star wars

>> No.15842001

>>15840929
>Well, if you have fun, it's not a waste of time for you.
t. apartment dwelling 24 year old who wasted his time having "fun" instead of improving his college grades

>> No.15842640

>>15839752
I can definitely say (You) are wasting your time

>> No.15842661

>>15842001
I already graduated. Just saying that a good use of time is subjective. There's a ton of STEMfags who'll say reading anything that won't make you money is a waste of time, /pol/tards who'll say anything not written by Whites is a waste of time, and /x/fags who'll say any history is a waste of time.

>> No.15843897

>>15839752
is anything not?