Quick note: not just talking about the feeling after reading a book/series, that’s different.
I’m talking about reading a fantasy/action book and when not reading it you feel like part of you is missing? An example I have personally would be the Percy Jackson novels. I used to spend lots of time reading them and I really took to the series because I always liked Greek mythology. I remember in High school exam week, I would just read in my free time. I wasn’t even that stressed, I just remember that in my school after the exam you could just go home do I’d spend like 11-1 reading, eat, then read from like 1:30-7 and you get the point. I had posts of free time I’d just read and reread them. And when I wouldn’t I would just feel sad that it was all fiction. The world, the characters, and little things like that. I didn’t even have a bad childhood or anything, as my family was I’m the upper middle class and had money for fun things/wants but nowhere near rich. I had good friends, loving parents, a nice roof over my head and everything was just great. I enjoyed life, but then when I would reread the books after a while I’d just be sad because they were just fiction and I wished that world were real and this weren’t. Thinking back everything was fine but I just felt like there was a hole missing from me. This was 2006-09/10 and I was around 15/16, and all was good. Can anybody relate? Why?
by Pigiwg_23
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The thing about novels is they are written in print **they are not going anywhere**.
Why would we feel guilty about not reading something if we know that we can pick up where we left off?
There are many books that I have struggled to get through and I have to be honest with you right now I’m looking at my bookshelf and I’m staring at Dan Brown’s Angels and Demons….. this is the book I consider to be like a street vendor on a New York Sidestreet
that is selling hotdogs it’s one of those novels that I will pick up in between novels that I’m actually interested in, let me just say I have nothing against Dan Brown and his writing but I find that I have other things for example the book I’m reading now is “the crowd a study of the popular mind- Le bon, & The Sirens of Titan -Vonnegut.
Do I feel guilty about not reading Dan Brown’s novel?
Honestly I don’t because it’s one of those filler novels that I don’t really have any invested interest in it is just one of those things I read in between scholarly and fictional novels
Does that make me a bad person?
I would honestly **not concern yourself about that** (most of the authors never imagined they would ever even become the literature EPOC [Do you think the Poe in his desperate darkness of depression sitting in his Virginia home contemplating about tale tail hearts and ravens 🦉 would have imagined he would become the acclaimed author?]that they have become) the important thing is that you take it at your own pace and not worry about whether you feel guilty or not about a certain author genre or material
I love that feeling. When a book turns out to be like that,i save it for when I know I won’t be interrupted.