How do I enjoy literature? I've only really read the stuff I was forced to read in school and the generic fantasy that everyone has read. Is there a type of mindset that is necessary to enjoy it?
How do I enjoy literature...
Gabriel Flores
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Juan Cox
You don't actually enjoy most of it, you just read it and pretend you enjoy it and that you are truly patrician.
Thomas Walker
But then what is the point of it all.
Tyler Martinez
To pretend to be superior to people who read for the fun of it because they read science fiction and you read "the classics."
Logan Price
Don't force yourself to enjoy something just because there's cultural capital associated with it.
Carson Scott
Literature should inform you on psychology, human nature, shit like that. If you go into expecting an entertaining story like fantasy you'll be disappointing. If you go into it expecting to become a better person after understanding someone else's take on life then you'll do well.
Jose Stewart
>Is there a type of mindset that is necessary to enjoy it?
Stop reading shitty novels. Just like with film, television, music and video games, literature is also saturated with bad and incompetent works. You can't pick up just any old book and expect it to be a masterpiece.
Carter Roberts
If you don't enjoy something then don't do it. Don't force yourself to read books if you don't enjoy doing it. I firmly believe that there's some kind of book out there for everybody, they just have to find it. If you're not finding anything you're currently reading enjoyable try other genres. You never know what might catch your interest so keep an open mind and try lots of stuff.
Christopher Adams
FYI op this is possibly the worst attitude you can have about reading.
Jace Evans
The Novel & Poem & the entire form of life surrounding it is a dead artefact, not to be opened by non-antiquarians.