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A comment on The Death, and Life, of Reading Have Been Greatly Exaggerated (2016). Parent comment

Re:The Death, and Life, of Reading Have Been Greatly Exagger... by Taylor_OD on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @10:02AM (#17653174)
There is nothing to be gained from reading fiction? :/
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Re:The Death, and Life, of Reading Have Been Greatly Exagger... by posting2fast on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @11:55AM (#17654286)
> It is quite possible -- overwhelmingly probable, one might guess -- that we will always learn more about human life and personality from novels than from scientific psychology.

-- Noam Chomsky

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Re:The Death, and Life, of Reading Have Been Greatly Exagger... by Taylor_OD on Wednesday August 01, 2018 @10:27AM (#17662765)
Exactly. I read a lot of Sci Fi novels and while some of them are pulpy and low brow many are mind expanding. If nothing else it makes one think, "What if?" and "What could be?"
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