Kind of a hard question to word, but is there anything in your life you have recommended to other people but no one’s ever gotten into?
I love podcasts and have friends who still thank me for getting them into this one or that one. But I’ve never gotten anyone to listen to My Brother, My Brother and Me. I don’t know if the name is unappealing or the concept but people seem to bounce off immediately.
So what can’t you get people into and why should we check it out?
I’m the opposite. I only read fiction, both scifi and fantasy and everything in between, because why read something else? I love imagination possibilities of authors that can put something crazy in, something you simply can’t get in non-fiction literature. Why read “boring” stuff that can (have/did) happen to everyone in normal life?
I know I’m exaggerating, but I hope you know what I mean. And I highly recommend Discworld.
PS: I believe Discworld is not for everyone because it’s British with their style of humour baked in. If you don’t like Monty Python, Red Dwarf, IT Crowd or other British shows, you probably won’t enjoy Discworld either.
Because there are very worthwhile texts to read that improve ones knowledge about oneself and humanity and the universe, which in turn allows oneself to make better decisions and have a better mindset.
Reading fiction still helps a little with that, but is mostly “just” entertainment, which of course is also worthwhile.
Well, I do read quite bit of articles about history or technical progress, but not really whole books. IDK why, it just feels different for me and while articles are ok, I feel like book is too much. So books are almost exclusively fiction for me.
Aside from the accurate list you posted, I felt similarities as well with hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy.
Yeah, that didn’t cross my mind, but it’s definitely true!
When I was young I only read fiction, but as I got older I realized reality is incredibly complex and disturbing and found non-fiction far more interesting. So much of the past remains relevant today and there are no shortage of times real people have not only imagined but also implemented ways to exploit each other and their environments, for good and for bad, often in ways that do come across as utterly crazy, so it is hardly a boring category. These days I would rather make sense of the world I am in than some fictional universe. I do like British humor though.