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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
1000 years ago when someone wrote a book, it would have been to record something they thought was really important (not entertainment), considering the effort it would take and that almost everyone was illiterate. Of course that doesn't mean that what they wrote was true, but it certainly wasn't trivial like a novel would be nowadays.
I am sure in a 1000 years from now, historians will know that most of the literature from the era we are in now was for entertainment.
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Are biblical texts not the Entertainment novels ofthe past? Magic,miraculous heroes over coming over whelming oddds and myths of gods and creatures??? Seems a lot like a Harry potter novel.