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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
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.
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Sure, but it's all interwoven ... or it is for me. The events of the story affect the characters, and the excitement I feel approaching the climax of the book is typically tied to how I feel for the characters. And, though it seems strange even to me, I can experience that tension even if I've read the book several times and so already know how it comes out. In a well written book the story is happening for me all over again and the real-world and its memories can just take a seat out in the waiting room for a while.
