Things Strike Doesn't Understand About Modern Literature

[Hooahguy]

4. Excessively long fantasy books. Those hours spent reading 20,000 pages of George Martin could've been better spent brushing up on economic policy or understanding the root causes of the Napoleonic wars. Dragons aren't real, it's high time adults realzie that

Hey, there is nothing wrong wanting to escape this hell we call our world for a few hours a day.

[Strike For The South]

Hey, there is nothing wrong wanting to escape this hell we call our world for a few hours a day.

Yes there is.

[Whacker]

Yes there is.

No there isn't.

[Strike For The South]

No there isn't.

You read fantasy books and you end up thinking mining on asteroids is feaseble, the founding fathers were mouthpeices for equality, and Columbus thought the earth was flat

[Whacker]

You read fantasy books and you end up thinking mining on asteroids is feaseble, the founding fathers were mouthpeices for equality, and Columbus thought the earth was flat

You read only non-fiction and you end up thinking you know more than people with far more education and life experience.

[gaelic cowboy]

Hey Strike can I add a couple to that list of wisdom

2 Things Gaelic Cowboy is willing to put a bet on in Paddy Power that Strike also does not understand about Modern Literature

1: People who think Dan Brown writes non-fiction

2: Anything to do with Abstinace Porn

[Sasaki Kojiro]

You read only non-fiction and you end up thinking you know more than people with far more education and life experience.

You will, if their life experience is reading long fantasy books.

1. 50 shades of grey. After 100 years of feminism, women prove all they want is to be dominated with some guy with money. The fact that someones fanfiction can turn into a bestseller is side turning

2. Building on my first point, Since when did creepiness replace romance? I mean I'm all for chains, hot wax, and massaing the prostate (male g-spot) but is this really the world you want to lose yourself in?

No one will read a romance book where the plot is "they met through friends and hung out for a while and then started dating and it worked out great", that's why romances have such wacky plots.

4. Excessively long fantasy books. Those hours spent reading 20,000 pages of George Martin could've been better spent brushing up on economic policy or understanding the root causes of the Napoleonic wars. Dragons aren't real, it's high time adults realzie that

Yes, escapist books are supposed to be for relaxation, being really long defeats the whole point. Same with video games.

[Kagemusha]

You read fantasy books and you end up thinking mining on asteroids is feaseble, the founding fathers were mouthpeices for equality, and Columbus thought the earth was flat

Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow-
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

Edgar Allan Poe

[Lemur]

Strike, I've said it before and I'll say it again: Fantasy is the default human narrative. Kitchen-sink realism is a relatively recent invention.

Look at the old stories, your Beowulfs and your Gilgameshes and your Iliads. They would all be shelved under "fantasy" if Pyr put them out tomorrow.

Fantastic literature feeds some sort of primal need in the human psyche. Why get worked up about it?

S&M literature, on the other hand, is a more recent vintage. As a completely unqualified sociologist and psychologist, I'd suggest the rise in popularity has to do with nervousness about changing gender roles. (I suspect sexual dimorphism plays an unheralded role.)

[Greyblades]

You read fantasy books and you end up thinking mining on asteroids is feaseble, the founding fathers were mouthpeices for equality, and Columbus thought the earth was flat

...Columbus thought the world was pear shaped.

[Vladimir]

...Columbus thought the world was pear shaped.

See American is the world!

[Veho Nex]

What about reading 10,000 pages (cause thats what I've read so far by Turtledove) of alternate history such as if the CSA won the war of Secession or if aliens invaded during WW2

[The Stranger]

You read fantasy books and you end up thinking mining on asteroids is feaseble, the founding fathers were mouthpeices for equality, and Columbus thought the earth was flat

strike hates entertainment...