Originally Posted by
Brás Garcia de Mascarenhas
I think all members have read a book but I think there are few who read consistently and regularly. I do not say this because I think members are more or less intelligent but simply because from my observations most people are not avid readers. I personally see reading as something positive and it honestly leaves me a good impression knowing that someone enjoys reading. My alma mater is a humanities college so it would be odd if I thought otherwise. I also do not understand why fictional literature is being looked at in a bad light in this thread because the overwhelming majority of literary classics are fictionalized and nevertheless profound, complex and psychologically challenging. If Dostoevsky were alive today, his novels would probably be best sellers too and that wouldn't make his work any less relevant or profound. He was very popular in his time too. Not everything that is popular is necessarily bad, we just have to know how to separate the wheat from the chaff. And not everything that we perceive as bad may necessarily be "bad". Many authors were completely ostracized and ignored during their lifetime, only to become classics of world literature long after their death.