Your emotions take over you while reading ?
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Your emotions take over you while reading ?
PS: I do not cry! : )
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I tend to take statements like "I cried the whole way through the book" with a pinch of salt. Really? You cried that much during it, must be a lot of hyper sensitive people out there. That sort of nonsense is just the PR spin to sell books.
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Jesus wept .... why not VerdeMar?VerdeMar wrote:Do you laugh/cry when reading a book? I laughed a lot once and the problem was that I was around people... they tought I was crazy. Anyone to share this burden ?
PS: I do not cry! : )
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I do not know, maybe because I am kind of a cold person even if I do not seem to be, my short life experience "made" me insensitive. Unconsciously I just became like this. For example when I watch a movie about the Holocaust I do not get impressed (in the first time, it was shocking), I feel nothing more can shock me now after what I have seen and what I seen in the news. If I saw a guy getting killed in front of me would be different, if a book can "put me in that situation" maybe who knows, the author would need to be 100x times more skilled than Ernest Hermingway at writting in my opinion. With words it is more difficult to transport people to another dimension, that is why when an author can do that he/she is talented (quite few can do this).Fran wrote:Jesus wept .... why not VerdeMar?VerdeMar wrote:Do you laugh/cry when reading a book? I laughed a lot once and the problem was that I was around people... they tought I was crazy. Anyone to share this burden ?
PS: I do not cry! : )
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I cried over 'The Kite Runner' & 'The Book Thief' and I laughed out loud reading 'Skippy Dies' & 'A short history of tractors in Ukrainian' and there have been lots of books that made me laugh & cry. I cry over unfairness and someone being cruel or bullying to a child rather than actual violence. I get very emotionally involved with characters which of course also means that sometimes I get angry with them too.VerdeMar wrote:I do not know, maybe because I am kind of a cold person even if I do not seem to be, my short life experience "made" me insensitive. Unconsciously I just became like this. For example when I watch a movie about the Holocaust I do not get impressed (in the first time, it was shocking), I feel nothing more can shock me now after what I have seen and what I seen in the news. If I saw a guy getting killed in front of me would be different, if a book can "put me in that situation" maybe who knows, the author would need to be 100x times more skilled than Ernest Hermingway at writting in my opinion. With words it is more difficult to transport people to another dimension, that is why when an author can do that he/she is talented (quite few can do this).Fran wrote:Jesus wept .... why not VerdeMar?VerdeMar wrote:Do you laugh/cry when reading a book? I laughed a lot once and the problem was that I was around people... they tought I was crazy. Anyone to share this burden ?
PS: I do not cry! : )
A good cry is very therapeutic.
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There has been one book I've read in my life that I would consider using that phrase while describing. It was A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer. No, I did not literally cry on every single page from cover to cover. But I did cry at least ten times. I don't consider myself hyper-sensitive, but reading about that level of child abuse and neglect from a first-hand account really got to me.StephenKingman wrote: I tend to take statements like "I cried the whole way through the book" with a pinch of salt. Really? You cried that much during it, must be a lot of hyper sensitive people out there. That sort of nonsense is just the PR spin to sell books.
Other than that specific book, usually if there is a particularly sad part in a book, I will tear up, but they don't fall. And in funny parts, I'll usually smile, but very rarely laugh out loud.[/i]
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I get emotional but I do not resort of crying. Maybe because I've been affected by the society's stereotype in men.Tip the Bottle wrote:I have definitely been emotionally invested is some book, sometime laughing and I've teared up before. I don't see how people who read wouldn't get an emotional charge out of some stories why else would you read other than knowledge.
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It took a long time for me to ever laugh, cry, get angry... at movies or books. I was not mature enough to have the story effect my emotions. Now that I am older, been through things, I am effected all the time by art and I am happy to be effected so. I think it is good, it makes me feel good and I know someone else out there can touch my soul.VerdeMar wrote:Do you laugh/cry when reading a book? I laughed a lot once and the problem was that I was around people... they tought I was crazy. Anyone to share this burden ?
PS: I do not cry! : )
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