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Question:
Which is better, fiction or non-fiction books?

Choices:
Fiction
Non-fiction

 

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Originally posted by Mike's Sentient Pubes:
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Is it me or has this forum really gone downhill lately?

I think non-fiction work is more basic.
Non-fictions are (mostly) about reasoning (I think of them as those major disciplines, put journalists stuff aside), and fictions are (mostly) about telling stories.
Since I'm from non-western culture, and you know, most of the non-western cultures lack the tradition of doing non-fiction's stuff. So those non-fiction works are even more important in the non-western and global context than solely in the west's context. The tradition of writing non-fictions is really a great contribution to global civilization by the west.I'm not saying that fictions don't matter. We know that fictions alone can appeal your emotion, move your "heart", but can't improve your mind.
That being said, I must add that a good fiction can really change the way people view the world and themselves though, and some post-modernists are under the working to reverse this non-fiction priority's culture... So, I'd better shut up now.

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It's apples and oranges really. I think that both are essential, though I enjoy nonfiction slightly more.

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Originally posted by DrAwesome:
............ though I enjoy nonfiction slightly more.

I think most people do. As Aristotle said "men by nature desire to know."
But in this "get busy dying or get busy living " era, if people have time and want to read books, they pretty much go about non-fitcions. To paraphrase Foucault: seeking knowledge is seeking power. Furthermore, if I have to choose between fiction books and movies(motion pictures), I would of course go about movies, because it's very much time-saving compared to reading books.

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It would be interesting to see what the results would be if you posted the same poll in the Fiction Books forum.

As a dedicated reader of both, I'd say that fiction might be more fantastic (in both senses of the word), non-fiction is more USEFUL to me.

It gives me analysis on the real world, and that's where I live my life!

Fiction Books suits more for Children. It extends their imagination and makes them to think.

I prefer fiction. It entertains me more. And (Excuse me if what I'm about to say sounds pretentious) sometimes fiction can be more truthful than non-fiction.

What would you say is more influential? 1984, or a non-fiction book making the case that the world may come under full surveillance and psychological control of the government for all eternity?

Non-fiction reports events that occurred. Fiction takes the meaning of those events and creates a new context that expresses them directly.

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