in my view poeple that read FICTION books alot are peopl who revel in other peoples adventures because they have none of their own.

any thoughts?

in my view poeple that read FICTION books alot are peopl who revel in other peoples adventures because they have none of their own.

any thoughts?
a generalist and narrow minded view in my opinion. people read all different kinds of novels. we larn how others think, feel, view reality..........we get insights, compassion, empathy, shock, you name it

a good book ...Steppenwolf, by Herman Hesse

in my view poeple that read FICTION books alot are peopl who revel in other peoples adventures because they have none of their own.

any thoughts?

The need for escape into the realm of fiction is a fundamental need of our busy minds.
It's a bit like our need for sleep. It gives us an ability to find relief from the suffering of our sometimes over logical and rational lives in a benign and harmless way.
And I agree with Duendy, that it affords us inspiration that we make take and utilise in our every day lives.

We need food for our imaginations and creativity and works of fiction feeds our creative side.

If we read because our own lives are so ....hmmmmm mundane is this such a bad thing?

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Don't know about others, but I like to read fiction books because the world therein is normally vastly different from our own. Magic, gods and such things actually exists in those books, and I like the world and adventures build upon these systems by the author. But it might be a recompensation for the boring day to day life. After all, it seems highly unlikely that I will be a heroic dragonslayer or some such things someday.
Alas, I believe that most people tend to read them because they are very good and interesting material to pass the time with.

Apart from that, I think that:
in my view poeple that read FICTION books alot are peopl who revel in other peoples adventures because they have none of their own.

any thoughts?

can describe a great part of our normal life, in a naive way. TV, computer games, advertisements, movies, nearly all kinds of books, alcohol, drugs and even music can be seen as such escapes from the real and boring world.

Also, I do think that some people might lack the personal experience of great adventures and feats, after all, what can you do in the modern society, on our high-tech world, that can possibly equal the things found in books.

"As Banyon, the dragon slayer drew his sword, he knew that this may be the last time that he did thus. In the distance the firery breath of Sloan, the last surviving dragon, could be seen to light up the twilight of the dying day.
"This day would not be the only thing to die", he thought" as he took the Manti stance that his Master had taught him so many years ago, and patiently waited for Sloan to smell his fear.....and find him

Fiction is fun to write as well....ha

How is it possible that a worm can be born from a book?

You've never heard of actual bookworms? I've got a few antiques in my library that have holes eaten through them from the little rotters.

I enjoy fiction as well as factual books. And I agree with Quantum Quack that fiction is very fun to write. I like to tamper with history when I write. I either play with alternate histories or else drag famous people into the future. Old formulae, I know, but it's not like I'm writing for publication.

c7ityi-Here's the listing from www.wikipedia.com:

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Bookworm is a popular generalization for any insect which supposedly bores through books.

Actual book-borers are uncommon. Both the larvae of the Death watch beetle (Xestobium rufovillosum) and the Furniture Beetle (Anobium punctatum) will tunnel through wood - and if paper is in close proximity they will pass into that.

A major book feeding insect is the booklouse (or book louse). A tiny (under 1 mm), soft-bodied wingless psocoptera (usually Trogium pulsatorium), that actually feeds on molds and other organic matter found in ill-maintained works, although they will also attack bindings and other parts. It is not actually a true louse.

Many other insects, like the Silverfish (Lepisma saccharina) or Cockroach (various Blattodea), will consume these molds and also degraded paper or the starch-based binding pastes - warmth and moisture or high humidity are prerequisites, so damage is more common in the tropics. Modern glues and paper are less attractive to insects.

Tineola biselliella and Hofmannophila pseudospretella will attack cloth bindings. Leather bound books attract various consumers, such as Dermestes lardarius and the larvae of Attagenus unicolor and Stegobium paniceum.

The bookworm moth (Heliothis zea or H. virescens) and its larvae are not interested in books. The larvae are pests for cotton or tobacco growers as the Cotton Bollworm or Tobacco Budworm.