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Your emotions take over you while reading ?

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Do you laugh/cry when reading a book? I laughed a lot once and the problem was that I was around people... they tought I was crazy. Anyone to share this burden ?

PS: I do not cry! : )
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Yes i do laugh a lot at books if there are some funny moments in it, i get angry at injustices in some non-fiction books i have read but i dont get upset or cry much at books, the exception being the end of The Graveyard Book which kinda floored me out of the blue.

I tend to take statements like "I cried the whole way through the book" with a pinch of salt. Really? You cried that much during it, must be a lot of hyper sensitive people out there. That sort of nonsense is just the PR spin to sell books.
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VerdeMar wrote:Do you laugh/cry when reading a book? I laughed a lot once and the problem was that I was around people... they tought I was crazy. Anyone to share this burden ?

PS: I do not cry! : )
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I have definitely been emotionally invested is some book, sometime laughing and I've teared up before. I don't see how people who read wouldn't get an emotional charge out of some stories why else would you read other than knowledge.
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I laugh over books too. I try to just smile when I'm around people not to look like a lunatic :P I rarely cry but I did couple of times.
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Fran wrote:
VerdeMar wrote:Do you laugh/cry when reading a book? I laughed a lot once and the problem was that I was around people... they tought I was crazy. Anyone to share this burden ?

PS: I do not cry! : )
Jesus wept .... why not VerdeMar?
I do not know, maybe because I am kind of a cold person even if I do not seem to be, my short life experience "made" me insensitive. Unconsciously I just became like this. For example when I watch a movie about the Holocaust I do not get impressed (in the first time, it was shocking), I feel nothing more can shock me now after what I have seen and what I seen in the news. If I saw a guy getting killed in front of me would be different, if a book can "put me in that situation" maybe who knows, the author would need to be 100x times more skilled than Ernest Hermingway at writting in my opinion. With words it is more difficult to transport people to another dimension, that is why when an author can do that he/she is talented (quite few can do this).
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VerdeMar wrote:
Fran wrote:
VerdeMar wrote:Do you laugh/cry when reading a book? I laughed a lot once and the problem was that I was around people... they tought I was crazy. Anyone to share this burden ?

PS: I do not cry! : )
Jesus wept .... why not VerdeMar?
I do not know, maybe because I am kind of a cold person even if I do not seem to be, my short life experience "made" me insensitive. Unconsciously I just became like this. For example when I watch a movie about the Holocaust I do not get impressed (in the first time, it was shocking), I feel nothing more can shock me now after what I have seen and what I seen in the news. If I saw a guy getting killed in front of me would be different, if a book can "put me in that situation" maybe who knows, the author would need to be 100x times more skilled than Ernest Hermingway at writting in my opinion. With words it is more difficult to transport people to another dimension, that is why when an author can do that he/she is talented (quite few can do this).
I cried over 'The Kite Runner' & 'The Book Thief' and I laughed out loud reading 'Skippy Dies' & 'A short history of tractors in Ukrainian' and there have been lots of books that made me laugh & cry. I cry over unfairness and someone being cruel or bullying to a child rather than actual violence. I get very emotionally involved with characters which of course also means that sometimes I get angry with them too.
A good cry is very therapeutic.
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StephenKingman wrote: I tend to take statements like "I cried the whole way through the book" with a pinch of salt. Really? You cried that much during it, must be a lot of hyper sensitive people out there. That sort of nonsense is just the PR spin to sell books.
There has been one book I've read in my life that I would consider using that phrase while describing. It was A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer. No, I did not literally cry on every single page from cover to cover. But I did cry at least ten times. I don't consider myself hyper-sensitive, but reading about that level of child abuse and neglect from a first-hand account really got to me.

Other than that specific book, usually if there is a particularly sad part in a book, I will tear up, but they don't fall. And in funny parts, I'll usually smile, but very rarely laugh out loud.[/i]
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I laugh a lot, feel anger and outrage a lot, get teary-eyed a little.

@Stephen Kingman

I wasn't expecting that ending either, but when I think about it it couldn't have ended any other way.
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Ive read some books that have made me emotionial, the only one I can think of that made me want to cry was a short story called Dogstar by Arthur C. Clarke. He had a talent for putting you into the story, and feeling the emotions of the characters. As for books that have made me laugh, a friend gave me a book receintly called How to Fish Good. I laughed on every page, it kind of reminded of the tv series The Red Green show.
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Tip the Bottle wrote:I have definitely been emotionally invested is some book, sometime laughing and I've teared up before. I don't see how people who read wouldn't get an emotional charge out of some stories why else would you read other than knowledge.
I get emotional but I do not resort of crying. Maybe because I've been affected by the society's stereotype in men. :wink: :wink:
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GotThatSwing wrote:I laugh over books too. I try to just smile when I'm around people not to look like a lunatic :P I rarely cry but I did couple of times.
I totally know what is like! Im completely the same! :wink:
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Sometimes when I am alone I try to get in to reading as much as I can.
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VerdeMar wrote:Do you laugh/cry when reading a book? I laughed a lot once and the problem was that I was around people... they tought I was crazy. Anyone to share this burden ?

PS: I do not cry! : )
It took a long time for me to ever laugh, cry, get angry... at movies or books. I was not mature enough to have the story effect my emotions. Now that I am older, been through things, I am effected all the time by art and I am happy to be effected so. I think it is good, it makes me feel good and I know someone else out there can touch my soul.
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I cried at the end of "Tale of two Cities", then when I read it a second time, I cried again. That ending always gets me.
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