system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
Is there a fallacy behind the "go read a book" argument? If so, what is its name?

I personally find it very cringy and condescending.
gpt
At *best* it'd be an informal fallacy (like appeal to authority, reification, argument to moderation et cetera), rather than a formal logical fallacy (ie, actually breaking the rules of deduction etc).

Even if "go read a book" is cringey, it's not a logical position or argument, it's a statement of unwillingness to have a serious conversation about a topic. To think about it in terms of logic seems like a category error, unless it's a part of a broader argument and this is a way of brushing off a specific criticism. Even then it's an informal problem, to do more with rhetoric and debate.