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Originally Posted by viZion
For me, when I'm required to study my entertainment to understand it, it ceases to be entertainment.
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You may be right, but not in the way I think you mean. A work that merely entertains can, with insight, become something more profouund, even a passion.
I'm not a big reader of fantasy (not even LoTR (
) - yet) so I'll use music as an example. (My apologies to the tone deaf.) It's sometimes said that you can tell a good piece of music because you notice something new in it each time you hear it. Now obviously a book (even a bad one) can be far more complicated, and multi-facteted, than even the most complex music, but the principle is the same: the more you know a good work, the deeper your enjoyment can be.
And the best part is, you can be entertained while you gain the insight.
