>"genre" books are just mindless wish fulfillment

The vast majority of genre books, yes.

What's wrong with a book being for entertainment? And at least they aren't entertaining for the sole purpose of advertising and whoring out shit to you via commercials like television is.

>>7376790
If you're reading purely for entertainment, you aren't becoming a more enlightened person. You're just wasting the time left before you die.

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>>7376790
The book itself is the product. It is a commercial for itself, to get the lazy hack writer money from your pocket.

>>7376795
Define enlightenment in the sense of the individual. Go on.

>>7376817
Becoming more lightened.

>>7376795

What would you call becoming an "enlightened" person? All you do is waste time until you die

>>7376822
If there are specific conditions within the canon for attaining the ability to levitate, then that does indeed seem possibly more worth my time.

>>7376795
no matter what you do in your life, you're still just wasting the time left before you die.

>>7376848
No. You can make changes.

>>7376409
Search deep sounding on pornhub and report back

>>7376795
holy spooks, batman.

>>7376823
By reaching nirvana and escaping the cycle of rebirth so you don't have to go through this bullshit again

>>7376409
Deep squats.

>>7377067
Truly, something we can all aspire to.

>>7376409
All fiction is just time wasting, OP. Indeed, even most non-fiction is technically a waste unless it directly relates to teaching you how to do something you plan on doing in the real world.

But that doesn't matter, because nothing matters and all that is left is the satisfaction of desires. Which fiction does quite well.

>>7376409
Why do you have to divide literature into 'genre' and 'literary' fiction? I do agree most of literature is bad, like all other art mediums' products, but assuming something is of good quality because it has a 'deeper message' is naïve. Of course, Ulysses is better than Dune, for example (both as a novel, a book, and a work of fiction), but it isn't because the second one lacks an 'underlying message', or because the first one doesn't follow genre conventions (although it does add to its quality): it's because it has better character development, smart and well written dialogue, innovative prose, creative and relevant metaphors and symbolism, and still managing to be philosophical and entertaining.

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>>7376795
>you aren't becoming a more enlightened person

>>7376409
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