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You misunderstand my issue with it. What bothers me isn't that it is fiction/fantasy, it is that despite being fantasy, it is supposed to have a message. It is supposed to be saying something profound about the world, but IMO, it is a shallow point.WarPhalange said:Yes, it's called fiction. That's the point. Please tell me I'm not the first one to introduce to you stories that are not based in reality.
There was nothing difficult to figure out about the message of Slaughterhouse 5. That's not the point. The point is the message was not meaningful because the argument was empty.It wasn't easy to figure out = it's not literature. Gotcha.
I just think that a book that is intended to say something meaningful about reality should base the argument on reality. You can't convince me of something about reality by presenting me with fantasy. Simple as that.