+515 We read recipes the same way we read science fiction. We get to the end and think, "Well, that's not going to happen.", amirite?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

nice post. hope it makes it home

by Anonymous 13 years ago

thanks :)

by Anonymous 13 years ago

glad it did:]

by Anonymous 13 years ago

You're obviously not reading Scifi the right way then...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Science FICTION. I've never read a SciFi book and thought "well, something like that might actually happen".

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I think you're confusing "fiction" with "fantasy". And if you read an entire scifi book and all you think is "lawlz that was stoopid cuz it wont evur happen", then I feel sorry for you.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I'm not confusing fiction with fantasy, but fiction is still imagination. Even if a SciFi author is speculating about how the future might be, it's almost always very unrealistic. I never think "lawlz that was stoopid cuz it wont evur happen", because I expect it to be unrealistic (I think books are more entertaining when they're unrealistic anyway). And if you read an entire scifi book and all you think is "lawlz i love this i relli hope it wil happen", then I feel sorry for you. :P

by Anonymous 13 years ago

What I'm trying to say is that you should be focusing on the messages of the book and enjoying the story, not just thinking about whether it's possible or not. And scifi isn't "almost always very unrealistic", you're just reading soft scifi. Try hard scifi if you want more realistic. Try exploring the genre more before making generalizations.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Seems like we agreed from the beginning, that was exactly what I was trying to say in my first post; that you shouldn't be thinking about whether it's possible or not, since it's mostly imagination anyway. I guess you're right when you're saying that it's not how you should be reading Scifi. I don't read it that way, and I don't think the OP is reading it that way either. It's a joke.

by Anonymous 13 years ago