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Originally Posted by Aladyleyna
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Sometimes, I stop reading because it gets too emotionally painful to carry on. I did that for Stephen King's Under the Dome, because what happened to the characters was so painful I couldn't go on.
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If the book is well written, I usually come back and finish it. Hardy's
Jude the Obscure is a book I think is amazingly good but so pessimistic and nervewracking that it's hard for me to get to the end, even though I've read it before. Orwell's
1984 is another great book that I find terribly painful and difficult to read.
I'm like this with music. I adore Schubert's
Winterreise, but get more and more emotional as it progresses and often have to stop it before the end.
I suppose the underlying difficulty is that I read or listen to music to be taken out of myself and these works display unhappy truths that I'd rather avoid.