How can you stand to read Fiction Book?

[elemenoP]

That's funny, I was just asking myself: "how can people stand to watch the news these days?"

[HappyMartin]

I had this debate, amongst others, with my father many times. Never really came up with an adequate reply until after his death

Now I would tell him that fiction is a vast thought experiment. It allows us to explore what ifs. Shrodringers Cat is thus a short story. A work of fiction.

Of course that is just a clever answer. It is entertainment. Just as more than half of what we eat is just entertainment

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by elemenoP

That's funny, I was just asking myself: "how can people stand to watch the news these days?"

But I though the news WAS fiction???? I'm so confused!

[silasgreenback]

Originally Posted by DrNefario

Whew, for a minute there I thought videogames were going to take the blame again.

I'll meet you halfway:

Interactive Fiction Archive

Interactive Fiction Database

IF Wiki

All jokes about moral panics and scourges aside, those are really great links that I can't recommend enough.

[jgaiser]

Originally Posted by joehunt

Such as books in the true crime genre?

Actually, I was think more about war histories. Especially WWII. The Nazis, Buchenwald, Treblinka, Warsaw, Stalingrad. All that serious, non-violent stuff.

[pdurrant]

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Between this thread, the "Tablets are a waste of time" thread and a thread in another forum, I feel like MobileRead has leapt into an alternate universe for the month of December.

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