Comment by wizzwizz4
5 years ago
> So the most popular works of fiction mix some pretty accurate descriptions of reality with the oddity comming from the authors imagination.
Then eschew popular works of fiction. Talk to a reader or a book club, and get some suggestions, maybe? All books have this problem, but some less so than others. If you're aware of this issue, then reading a wider variety of voices can only help your understanding of the world.
I don't see it as a problem. It's just how human interest works. We are drawn to things that are similar enough to what we know and odd enough at the same time to be interesting.
If I wanted to read books that try to reflect reality as good as possible I'd stick to manuals and textbooks.
The problem is a general one that people are being tricked that purely entertainment pieces give them some insights into nature of reality and people. Fictional literature is held as a source of insight of human condition but the parts that make it interesting are pure fantasy of one skewed mind.