>reads nonfiction to learn factual information and not for

>>9120635
kys

>reads restaurant menu to learn what meals you can order and not for prose

I shiggy

>>9120635
Who says you can't do it for both?

>>9120690
shut up cuck

>>9120708
Probably chomping on some bait here, but how am I a cuck?

Personally, the only nonfiction I've ever been able to get into is that which I find to be both informative and entertaining, for example, Bill Bryson's A Short History Of Nearly Everything.

>>9120734
>Bill Bryson's A Short History Of Nearly Everything.

haven't read it but my dad has and he also watches TED videos, so I'm going to call you reddit now

hey reddit!

>>9120734
don't ever reply to me again unless you're contributing to the thread

>>9120741
Should I also not ever reply to your son, as well?

>>9120740
Funnily enough, it was recommended to me by my dad.

As for TED videos, all evidence I've seen has suggested they've largely become a platform for sjws to preach their bullshit, so no thanks. Also, wouldn't it make more sense to address me as "redditor" as opposed "reddit"?

>>9120922
why is reddit so fucking stupid?

>>9120740
TED has a talk by Rodney Mullen, which is pretty cool, because he's a special level of savant, and I hope to write a novel based around him and geometry.

reddit is okay sometimes btw

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>not reading for themes
Prosefags are as bad as plotfags

What does it even to 'read for prose'?
So should I be okay with written nonsense if it's done in rosy tone with big words and occasional reference? Is that how Joycefags function?

>>9121278
I dont know what OP is talking about, but there are plenty of assholes on this board who read shit like Vollman and insult others as "pseuds" for not being interested in purposefully opaque prose as some sort of art form.

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>>9121278
>Is that how Joycefags function?

Yes.

>opens The Sun still rises
>no page-long sentences
>not purple enough
>not enough adjectives
>no 15 page descriptions
>no conversations spanning an entire chapter
>tfw
>"Kek Hemingway is basic no content 2/10, 3 with nippon rice, give me back my Joyce

>>9122207
Kys

>Not reading history

I can't forgive this desu

>>9122211

>abbrevation
>doesn't describe mood well enough
>just three letters
>no idea what color his curtain is
>don't know what he ate this morning

Why are you even here?

>>9120635

1) what do you mean by "reading for prose"?

2) why would it be bad to read in order to learn factual information?

3) I'm not that kind of person but damn, some critique is even better than the fiction it discusses

>>9122207
*the sun also rises

>>9122207
>he reads books instead of short summaries online

>>9120922
how can you be this pleb? kys