Read fiction for a good while

>read fiction for a good while
>really enjoying myself
>vividly imagine the things described and feel immersed in escapism
>pick up philosophy books, Wittgenstein specifically
>the pleasure is even greater, tenfold even, and my desire for fiction turns to nil because I've been wasting my time in comparison to reading philosophy.
Anyone else knows this feel?

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I haven't touched a fiction book since doing my philosophy degree.

Excluding one audiobook that I've listened to since I was a kid that I use when I can't sleep.

You lost what little credibility you had when you started flirting with butterfly.

Shut up fag

Same here — started reading philo 2-3 years ago and haven’t read much fiction since then. That’s not to say I don’t appreciate it. I’m a Joyce head and struggled with the wake for years. But I find philo... in particular the Greeks, Plotinus and critical theory more engaging.

that is cute user, which audiobook?

Stop baiting, faggot.

Kill yourself nigger.

If you still believe in "Escapism", you haven't read enough fiction nor philosophy

redpill - fiction and nonfiction are the same thing

isn’t butterfly a tranny?

>read fiction
>really enjoy myself
>read nonfiction
>either get bored and stop reading and instead read wikipedia article on same subject
>or am too stupid to understand it so I just read the wikipedia article anyway

How do I not do this? People have told me to take notes, but how specifically?

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just read fiction as an entertainment instead of going on YouTube/Playing videogames or whatever. Every human need to be entertained from time to time.

The hallmark of great nonfiction is making it read like fiction. Writing about reality does not excuse you to write like shit.

In Bob Bernstein's "All the President's Men," the book itself pokes fun at Bernstein's shitty English. It directly states that journalists who worked with Bernstein thought English was his second language due to how terrible he was as a writer. You can tell this yourself by reading his books, he writes like a sandpaper dildo.

And then you got writers like Robert Caro, who also writes nonfiction as a journalist, but puts high esteem on literary flow. His books are highly esteemed because not only the content of his nonfiction, but also how he weaves a nonfiction story to sound novelized.

Based.

this

>why yes, I read both fiction and non-fiction books as well as scientific journals, how could you tell?

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>mfw I specifically search for reddit posts to understand things

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>thinking there's a difference between fiction and non-fiction

How can i stop doing this bros? I realize that by even asking im engaging in the very same thing im trying to avoid but how do i stop relying on the internet for answers

Yes.

>not reading both
What a fag

By looking for answers on the internet, once you got it you can apply it on other books and gradually you wont be searching as much. Very few people understand things through instinct.

unironically no :3

Isn't philosophy fiction though? Or math? I mean the latter can at least precisely model material world, while the former is just silly answers to tardy questions only a virgin could ask, such as 'what is being?'.

inb4 virgin philosophy vs chad math metaphysics

Don't you agree that good fiction can convey philosophical ideas in a way that skips reason and goes directly to passion? I'm not attributing any sort of value in that, tho. I just feel that I understood more about christian morality by reading Dostoievski than by reading Aquinas or Augustine, for example.

I am worse that you, I entered that downward spiral and now only read scientific papers and history books.

I usually read a serious subject (philosophy, history, politics, science, etc) and some fiction at the same time for pleasure. My "work reading" are medical journals and books. It's incredible the amount of time one has if you don't have social media accounts and haven't touched women in years.

No pessao and stop making these threads so often lol sleep well

learn to love yourself... noob..

I haven't read fiction in years apart from rereading Narnia a few years back, and I've always liked non-fiction. As a teenager, my favorite book was John F. Love's Behind the Arches, Revised Edition, and despite being an inch-thick trade paperbook has held up remarkable well for 10+ years of use. Today, the books I read are biographies or other accounts of the past. Personally, I think high school literature ruined my tastes for fiction.

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There can be fiction that teaches virtues and can be philosophical.

For example, the first time I signed up for a gym membership was after watching dbz as a kid. A habit I've continued to this day. Rewatching the series showed me other virtues of energy self control, meditation that Toriyama was trying to teach in the show.

So fiction imo can be good read/watch, but it has to have virtuous lessons otherwise it's a waste of time.

I like reading mostly nonfiction, but only because its hard for me to read an entire fiction story. I get bored. With nonfiction, I can read small parts of hundreds of different books(especially with history ). I still do read fiction, though. I just hardly ever finish what I am reading

>it has to have virtuous lessons otherwise it's a waste of time
>Reading meaningful quotes on facebook all day is a perfectly good use of time!

I started reading philosophy and then went back to fiction.

The only thing I care about in philosophy is Hegel/Kojeve so I'll still pick up everything surrounding them, which is still a lot, but I'm not losing my head over it.

Actually yes, if it causes the reader to close Facebook and do seomthing meaningful with their life.

you don't belong here

Literary and Philosophical Fiction is most based. Fun to see the themes and questions explored through a human narrative.