Re: Is fiction important?
Of course fiction's important, as is anything people produce or consume in signficant quantities.
But is it useful? It can be, on a variety of levels. The publishing industry offers all sorts of professional niches which provide differing approaches to a living. Reading a book is one way to pass the time. Fiction gives reviewers something to write about and a trade to ply.
Is it any more useful than that? Depends more on the reader than the book, I think. You only get out of it what you're willing to search for.
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