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⌈ Secret Post #2732 ⌋

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Comments

So what SHOULD we be reading?

[nyxelestia]

Because honestly, the kind of books/genres I like to read tend to be very...limited and formulaic, in terms of published fiction. Fanfiction has a lot more variety and a lot less restriction. Pitting fanfiction as inherently "lesser" than published fictions is shitting on some of the fantastic fanfiction that's miles ahead of anything published fiction is willing to churn out. And it's not as if publishing houses are some vanguard of quality - their purpose is to make money, and that means sometimes they publish absolute crap because they think it'll rake in some profits.

What should we be reading, OP? Because there are tons and tons of books in that library alone, letalone in the world at large. What kind of books in particular are not a "deficit in education and life experience"? Not all books are inherently better than all fanfics, so surely you must have some idea of what books everyone - and I mean everyone - should be reading, regardless of whether or not they actually enjoy them, or even have access to them.

And where does nonfiction figure into this? Because I would much rather read a few dozen scientific articles on topics I care about than cart around a book that is one part stuff I care around to four parts stuff I don't care about.

I get why you might genuinely be concerned for people's literary diet, OP. But that kind of viewpoint is not one that actually measures the quality of books against the quality of fanfiction - it's just one that goes "books are better because they are books" without any kind of consideration for the varying levels of topic and quality in both mediums.

Re: So what SHOULD we be reading?

[darkmanifest]

And where does nonfiction figure into this?

Good question. I don't seek to expand my practical knowledge by reading dragon novels, published or not. That's what nonfiction is for.

Re: So what SHOULD we be reading?

[nyxelestia]

I have a very hobbyist interest in a lot of very technical topics, which means reading articles. Books tend to either be so dumbed down that they're boring, or so advanced or technical that they are literally only meant to be understand by people who have a degree in the stuff it's about.

Besides, I've probably read the equivalent of dozens of books on such non-fiction topics, just instead of a paperbook organized by chapter and then sub-topic, it was on blogs organized by date and tag. Same difference, really.

Re: So what SHOULD we be reading?

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah. I admit I side-eye people who claim fanfic is of equal quality to published books pretty hard. (The top 1 percent of both? Sure. But unless we're counting self-published books in with the novels, the spread of quality in fanfic is mind-bogglingly huge. The worst of traditionally published novels can't hold a candle to the worst of fic)

But like all things, the fic (and the books!) need to be considered on their own merits.

Re: So what SHOULD we be reading?

[(Anonymous)]

Naw, child, you ain't seen some of the shit that's made print. Lot of old crappy pulp fiction from back in the day didn't stay in the public consciousness but it's there and it is fabulously bad.