Yes it does. Unless you're one of those fucks to whom 'entertainment' can mean anything.

>>7438814
Elaborate please.

>>7438820
emotional support in times of dire stress,
life changing ideas that are necessarily fictional in nature, the communication of the imagination rather than a transfer of facts or axioms...

if all fiction books serve the purpose of entertainment only then non-fiction must also serve this entertainment

the only separation is the symbol of the real

>>7438820
Education. Self-improvement. Enjoyment (different to entertainment). Contemplation. Religious purpose. To witness sublimity. Gratification. Achievement.

All books are fiction, anyway.

>>7438853
I don't see how a novel achieves those effects compared to, say, a meditations book

In being able to empathize with a character who does not exist shows the greatest level of humanity. The novel also is an expression of art. Writing that has become refined. Opposed to informative writing such as journalism which is the most base deconstructed version of writing. A well constructed Novel such as Persuasion by Jane Austen is at the top of the highest form of art like Beethoven's 9th, or the Creation of Adam.

>>7438895
It doesn't matter what it achieves in comparison to anything else.

>>7438917
Why?

>>7439080
because that's not part of the question
>Do fiction books serve any other purpose besides entertainment?
not "do fiction books serve any purpose better than non-fiction?"