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Marriage tips from 1913 (europe.pub)
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[โ€“] 46 points 1 year ago (12 children)

DON'T say your wife wastes time in reading, even if she only reads fiction.

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  • [โ€“] [S] 69 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I guess in 1913 that was "you spend too much time watching trash TV"

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  • [+] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)
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  • [โ€“] 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    That has been me in the past. Not to my wife, but as a younger person, I only read history books and stuff (still do) and felt superior because I did that (I don't do that anymore of course), so I would sneer at my friends' fiction and stuff because it was "worthless" compared to "real history" where you "actually learned stuff".

    It's a dumb mindset, and I definitely don't feel like that anymore. I still don't read fiction or enjoy it, but it's just a hobby like any other, or like my thing with history.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    i want to bury you in iain m banks and ursula le guin until you enjoy fiction

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Interestingly enough, I love fictional movies, TV shows and comics/graphic novels/manga. It's just with books where I get bored extremely easily if I don't feel like there's a tangible connection with the real world.

    I guess I approach books with a "time to learn" mindset, and not necessarily as sources of entertainment. Even though I very much enjoy learning about history, and find it entertaining.

    I read a lot, too, just not much fiction. If you look at my Kindle library, I have bought like 50 books since I got it, around 10 are fiction, and all are about 30-40% through, none are finished. The remaining 40 are either history books or textbooks for my other hobbies. I have only dropped 2 of them.

    I have a handful of fictional books that I have finished and thoroughly enjoyed: Hundred Years of Solitude by Garcia Marquez, Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa, the Harry Potter Series (when I was younger), the Feast of the Goat by Vargas Llosa and the Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe.

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