Anonymous at Sat, 16 Nov 2024 10:55:36 UTC No. 16477675

no

Anonymous at Sat, 16 Nov 2024 14:44:38 UTC No. 16477827

>>16477664
not if it's culturally relevant fiction.

Anonymous at Sat, 16 Nov 2024 14:57:31 UTC No. 16477833

Male.

I don't read fiction.

Anonymous at Sat, 16 Nov 2024 15:17:24 UTC No. 16477850

>>16477664
Personal opinion here, never searched for any paper to back it up. I think that ability to speak well and ability to think well are somewhat related. There's a reason why closest thing to AI as of now comes from feeding tons of text into a neural network. Reading should be good for your brain whatever you read. Listen for an audiobook while commuting or doing chores if you can't force yourself to read a paper book.

Anonymous at Sat, 16 Nov 2024 15:48:29 UTC No. 16477878

>>16477664
Yes.

Anonymous at Sat, 16 Nov 2024 16:01:09 UTC No. 16477889

>>16477664
I think it mostly is but only because history is so much better and so much more impactful/relevant, and a far better teacher.

Anonymous at Sat, 16 Nov 2024 17:11:54 UTC No. 16477949

>>16477889
History is fiction too retard.

Everything we put in text are nothing but stories. All our language use is about telling stories.

Anonymous at Sat, 16 Nov 2024 18:02:45 UTC No. 16478004

Ask Martin Gardner
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Annotated_Alice
Ask MIT Press
https://direct.mit.edu/books/book/3542/FrankensteinAnnotated-for-Scientists-Engineers-and

Anonymous at Sat, 16 Nov 2024 18:15:40 UTC No. 16478013

>>16477664
no, its good to exercise the imagination.

Anonymous at Sat, 16 Nov 2024 18:35:47 UTC No. 16478038

>>16477664
I enjoyed reading the invisible man and rosie project as humor. 1984 and brave new world also pretty good. all the other fiction i read for school absolutely sucks.

Anonymous at Sat, 16 Nov 2024 19:17:57 UTC No. 16478069

>>16477664
What's an example of nonpointless nonfiction?

Stop guessing start learning at Sat, 16 Nov 2024 19:27:55 UTC No. 16478078

No. Because fiction is a larp of reality and can introduce good philosophical concepts that are hard to articulate directly. And need a story to personify and communicate to humans

bodhi at Sat, 16 Nov 2024 19:45:41 UTC No. 16478099

>>16477664
No. Some fiction can be more informative on different topics as non fiction. Such as if you want to learn spy craft Frderick Forsyth and Tom Clancy are just as knowledgeable as any non fiction author. Dan brown if you want to learn conspiracies and occult topics. Micheal Crichton is as much an expert on any topic he wrote about as the top people in the field, John Grisham on law so on and so forth. I have read every book by these authors that they ever wrote and the wealth of knowledge I gained from it is far more than any of the dumb shit you learned in uni

Anonymous at Sat, 16 Nov 2024 19:47:04 UTC No. 16478100

>>16478099
There's no such thing as written nonfiction my retarded friend.

Anonymous at Sat, 16 Nov 2024 20:05:35 UTC No. 16478114

No. Reading fiction still stimulates your brain much better than television/youtube/etc ever will

bodhi at Sat, 16 Nov 2024 20:44:05 UTC No. 16478147

>>16478100
this sentence doesnt even make grammatical sense. wtf are you even trying to say moron.

Anonymous at Sat, 16 Nov 2024 21:19:01 UTC No. 16478179

>>16478147
Write a sentence in any language that isn't fiction.

Anonymous at Sun, 17 Nov 2024 06:14:56 UTC No. 16478641

>>16477889
yeah but most thing that are possible haven't happened in history

Anonymous at Sun, 17 Nov 2024 06:27:10 UTC No. 16478647

>>16478641
History has the constraints of reality.
And history is better than fiction in just content too.
Caesar's or Alexander's life makes for a better story than any fiction I've ever read, and I've read plenty. Reality is just much more awesome, complex, nuanced, multi-faceted, than a puny human brain can come up with. And then it's compounded by the fact that it actually happened.
Shit like Tolkein good vs evil morality is just childish.