diplomatic_lies
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Hey does anyone here read fiction books? I've noticed people don't read much fiction these days.
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Yeah, and it's called non-nonfictionDemon said:Wait, there's something other than nonfiction? :woo:
Have you read any Jorge Luis Borges? He's pretty Kafkaesque, and his story 'The Garden of Ever-Forking paths' inspired both my novel and quantum physics.Vincent said:Currently I'm reading Kafka on the shore. If you haven't read it, I highly recomend it, it's a fantastic book.
Because it's fun? Not everything we do has to revolve around reality. Nothing wrong with a little bit of escape once in a while.Exp said:What's so good about reading books that have zero connection to reality?
Nowadays I don't read anything but law books and books about FOREX."We have to live without sympathy, don't we? That's impossible of course. We act it to one another, all this hardness; but we aren't like that really, I mean... one can't be out in the cold all the time; one has to come in from the cold... d'you see what I mean?"
"Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep"...great book to read. Better than the movie based on the book "Blade Runner", which was also good.diplomatic_lies said:Has anyone read anything by Phillip D!ck? He was this old 50s sci-fi writer, pretty interesting stories.
because they ARE connected to reality, or else no one would read them. LoTR has to do with WWII, Chronicles of Narnia has to do with Christianity, etc etcExp said:What's so good about reading books that have zero connection to reality?
They're fun?Exp said:What's so good about reading books that have zero connection to reality?
lmao, I bet you're a blast at book club parties.Exp said:What's so good about reading books that have zero connection to reality?
I hear that a lot, and a lot of people who say so think that the One Ring is supposed to be an allegory to the Atomic Bomb. J.R.R. Tolkien had always denied that LoTR was an allegory to WWII. He did write it during WWII. Most suspect that he just used his own WWI experiences to add realism to the book though. Tolkien always said he disliked allegory though and he wrote LoTR as a narrative vehichle for the Middle Earth world he created in the Silmarillon (which was still a messy pile of notes then and still reads more as a history book than a narrative).Microphone Fiend said:because they ARE connected to reality, or else no one would read them. LoTR has to do with WWII, Chronicles of Narnia has to do with Christianity, etc etc