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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
..... Last year I couldn't finish Water for Elephants or a book told from the viewpoint of an almost dead dog. I found myself approaching tears and didn't like it.
I like to learn things from books and they don't have to be 'literary' for that purpose. I don't mind books that make me angry, but unbearably sad I don't care for. And of course as many people become inured to tragedy and violence by reading about it as those whose empathy increases. More perhaps as given the popularity of thrillers, horror and true crime books.
Helen
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Thanks Helen. I have Water... on my TBR stack. Isn't there a thread about "books that you couldn't finish" around here somewhere?
I think their is much to be learned both intellectually and emotionally from books. I think that is why we do it and yes as with all things it likely is good and bad.
