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01-26-2016, 11:02 AM | #18 |
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01-26-2016, 12:38 PM | #19 |
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Occasionally, if it's close to bedtime, I'll stop reading a book if I suspect something extremely sad or scary is about to happen, just because I don't want certain images fresh in my head when I'm trying to get to sleep. But then I'll continue with the book the next day. I don't think I've ever abandoned a book because it's too depressing.
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01-26-2016, 03:04 PM | #21 | |
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01-26-2016, 03:08 PM | #22 | |
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* NNOOOOooooooOOOOOOooo * (That's me, running to Wikipedia to check....) edit: 30 books (but I don't have the short stories). Last edited by Katsunami; 01-26-2016 at 03:10 PM. |
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01-26-2016, 09:08 PM | #23 | |
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I've lost track of how many times I've re-read "Jude" but it's a lot. For decades I read it about every 4 or 5 years. It's been probably 15 years now and I recently got a copy with the intention of reading it in the not too distant future. It's been on my Kindle for a few weeks. There are about a dozen or so books I've read and re-read all my life and "Jude" is certainly one of the important ones. If anyone is interested some others follow in no particular order: "Peyton Place", Grace Metalous "The Egyptian", Mika Waltari "The Good Earth", Pearl S Buck "The Stars My Destination", Alfred Bester "The City and the Stars", Arthur C Clarke "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck "The Assistant", Bernard Malamud There are others but these are the ones that occur to me at the moment. I'm 75 now and I began reading some of these in my teens so I've read them a lot. Probably the one I've read most often is "The Egyptian". Barry |
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01-27-2016, 01:04 AM | #24 | |
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The numbers change sometimes depending on where you live - splitting Magician into Apprentice and Master, or count the short stories... but even with those it would total 34... I must be getting older faster than I thought! |
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01-27-2016, 01:48 AM | #25 |
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I never put a book down because I feared something bad would happen to the hero of the story. I have put books down because I didn't want them to end... (silly, I know... and I will always finish it, but it might take me some extra days )
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01-27-2016, 10:28 AM | #26 | |
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In the "old" days, I would flip to some random point toward the end of the book to see if the character was still there and whether they seemed to be recovered or not from whatever was disturbing me. That is not so easy to do with an ebook, and I've had to learn to just push ahead. Sometimes I'll go online and see if I can find a spoiler, but that is a lot riskier than just reading a few words at the back of the book when I just want to check the fate of one character. |
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It is indeed a masterpiece of English literature. I would not recommend it to the OP, however, given that they appear not to like books in which unfortunate things befall the protagonist.
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01-27-2016, 01:59 PM | #28 |
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That happened to me with the first Harry Potter. Someone gave it to me, and kept asking if I had read it. I finally started it, and told her I did not want to read a book about child abuse. She said I had to keep reading, and after much procrastination, I did. And devoured the books.
I recently had this happen to Room. The only reason I picked it up is because the movie was nominated for an Oscar. Well, I should have listened to my stomach. Although things did get better, it was on the whole a very, very depressing read. |
01-27-2016, 02:10 PM | #29 |
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I have, but then I picked it up again. More because it was just disturbing in general. What goes on in fiction doesn't affect me so much, but the memoir and non-fictcion stuff can spook me. But I always pick it up again because I have to know. I just have to.
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