Have you tried reading fiction that’s not SF?

Literature is nice. My dad has a big collection of literature books that number in the thousands. I've read probably 20% of them.

Why on earth did you get downvoted? O_O

Because it’s some weird flex to explicitly say things like “my dad owns thousands of books” and “I read hundreds of those”.

OK, I see. I did read that differently and thus missed this angle.

Since when it became bragging to own books?

Because there's a thing called cultural capital, and it's not well shared in society.

The Internet is full of free knowledge. Everyone who's willing to learn can find a multitude of sources to do so. I don't feel privileged because my father happened to love reading. If he had a collection of wines or coins, or legos would I still be considered to brag about it?

I hope HN won't turn into Twitter where everyone finds something offending all the time.

Accessible knowledge, educated surroundings and internalized behavior (read: habit) to self-educate are three very different things.

Bourdieu is a good start on these topics.

Because someone is projecting his/her insecurities on me. Never mind, I've got karma to spend.

> stick with non-fiction where I can learn shit

Why would you do that? Why would you rather read something where you could learn something useful or even nice maybe? I mean of course you can read whatever you want. Genuinely curious.

Also shit or otherwise, it’s such a fallacious myth that you only learn from non-fiction.

At grave risk of wooshing, the person you responded to meant "shit" to mean "stuff". And while I love fiction, the best way to dump facts into my brain (and I suspect most people's brains) is directly. Cramming lectures into fiction does a grave disservice to both, and while a talented author can sneak them in such skill is often better applied to either domain alone.