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					Originally Posted by  gmw
					 
				 
				Do you merely recognise that the book might raise feelings of excitement in some people, or do you feel the excitement as a book reaches its climax?  If the latter then you are responding emotionally to the story. 
			
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 The former really. It's rare these days that the end of a book generates any real excitement for me. Maybe in my youth.
But I don't think I've ever said that reading a book is a completely emotionless experience for me. I've said that I don't really develop an emotional attachment to fictional characters. "Caring about characters" is where I jumped in.