I prefer comedy. I'm reading Peter Mayle's A Dog's Life at the moment and find it about as deep as I want things to get.
I prefer comedy. I'm reading Peter Mayle's A Dog's Life at the moment and find it about as deep as I want things to get.
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I'm a sucker for war narratives, both fiction and nonfiction.
Sideways thinking, new angles. A different way of looking at something or a different approach to something.
Kind of like Steven Wright does with his comedy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...&v=ITo_Ugq9bbo
In other words, creativity that feels like it tweaks my creativity when I'm exposed to it.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Yes that is true, from a reading standpoint it can be interesting. And I think the purpose of dystopian literature is demonstrate why utopias are a bad idea, because they can so easily go so very wrong.Originally Posted by Shevek
But I never felt a desire to want to live in a utopian world.
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
I do not know if I can provide a tangible explanation for that. I am a horror fanatic, and even as a kid I always had a macabre side to me. I am drawn to the darker things in life, and the darker sides of ourselves. In part it is because I find that the darker side of things is far more fascinating then goodness. Also distributing literature (and other art forms) tend to be more unconventional, it has less restraint in following a certain expected format. Stories with happy endings are usually predictable, they do not really challenge society or the way people think, but conform to expected, conventional ideals. Things which disturb me also make me think.
Last edited by Dark Muse; 06-07-2013 at 11:27 PM.
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
Also adventure stories, like Don Quixote and Candide.
“To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.”
- Kurt Vonnegut
I think it's more they are unattainable due to human nature. But I think utopian lit can make you think just as much as dystopian.
“the sense of being which in calm hours arises, we know not how, in the soul, is not diverse from things, from space, from light, from time, from man, but one with them and proceeds obviously from the same source.... Here is the fountain of action and of thought....
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