I picked up 'On Moral Fiction' in the bookstore and looked up myself in the index, but I didn't read it through. I try not to read things that depress me.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.
I think that novels are tools of thought. They are moral philosophy with the theory left out, with just the examples of the moral situations left standing.
It's rare for me to read any fiction. I almost only read nonfiction. I don't believe in guilty pleasures, I only believe in pleasures. People who call reading detective fiction or eating dessert a guilty pleasure make me want to puke.
I don't want to read a book that's depressing.
There's more fiction in my life than in books, so I don't bother with them.
A book must have moral purpose to be any good. Why, I don't know.
I learned a lot about morality from fiction, from movies.
Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
I don't generally read a lot of fiction.
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.