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Originally Posted by tompe
Literature? I am talking about SF and SF having ideas that are intellectually stimulating and that you remember. Why read SF if not for the ideas?
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Why read anything? As far as remembering, if you look at the books that people remember, it isn't the intellectually stimulating ones that become classics and read for generations (well, except in narrow groups of "intellectuals"). We are still reading Homer's after thousands of years. Kids still grow up with the tales of Robin Hood, King Arthur, et al. Dickens, Verne, Defoe and Doyle are still read a hundred years later (note, my 13 year old nephew is currently reading/listening to 20,000 Leagues under the Sea). We still study Shakespeare, but not for the intellectually stimulating ideas.