Your emotions take over you while reading ?

BookWorm82 · Post by **BookWorm82** » 20 Apr 2015, 12:30

just this past Sat Iwas reading a book and I laughed at something in it!!!

LivreAmour217 · Post by **LivreAmour217** » 21 Apr 2015, 10:41

Oh, yeah, I get emotionally caught up in books all the time! I laugh, I cry, I even once threw the book across the room in anger! In public, though, I do try to constrain myself a little more--I don't like crying in front of others, and throwing the book in a crowded room would be just plain rude (and possible grounds for an assault charge). Laughing out loud, however, is okay to me.

avid reader28 · Post by **avid reader28** » 19 May 2015, 10:05

When I get into a book, I sympathize with it's characters
I smile, smirk, laugh out loud, cry, and my eyes tear up

Mjelmer · Post by **Mjelmer** » 28 May 2015, 01:24

Yes I find myself either laughing or crying during certain books

Circling Turtle · Post by **Circling Turtle** » 28 May 2015, 01:32

I get very emotionally involved, laugh and cry and rant in sympathy... Some books affect me for ages afterwards. After I read Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince I went into grieving... The characters become your friends.

Lady-Morgana1 · Post by **Lady-Morgana1** » 28 May 2015, 09:01

Yes, since I usually end up getting wrapped up in the characters and the story, that I develop emotions for the book, certain things happen I get happy, sad, and other kinds of emotions. But its healthy to have emotions, even if its a passion for reading.

moderntimes · Post by **moderntimes** » 28 May 2015, 09:38

Yes, I occasionally laugh aloud if I read something funny. Very natural response.

I also remember the first time I read Cormac McCarthy's "Blood Meridian" -- it's a highly intense novel about a band of cutthroat scalp hunters who venture into an expedition in 1830s Texas and Mexico.

Now I write fairly strong private detective novels, with occasional violent scenes. And I also have written a few very graphic horror stories, and being a horror fan, I've read some spine tinglers.

But when I read Blood Meridian, I actually had nightmares. So yes, emotions did take over for that instance, and not very pleasantly.

Michelle Liew · Post by **Michelle Liew** » 28 May 2015, 09:44

No, you're not crazy at all. Books evoke emotion......that's their job!

zeldas_lullaby · Post by **zeldas_lullaby** » 28 May 2015, 13:46

I too laugh out loud moreso than anything else. (But I avoid scary stuff on principle--I'm so easily scared!)

Adakage · Post by **Adakage** » 29 May 2015, 07:41

I do laugh if it's funny, and i get upset sometimes but the biggest emotion of all is the emptiness when i finish a long one and i don't have anything to do..

sometimes i wish i could forget what i read just to re-experience it again

zeldas_lullaby · Post by **zeldas_lullaby** » 29 May 2015, 09:31

Adakage wrote:I do laugh if it's funny, and i get upset sometimes but the biggest emotion of all is the emptiness when i finish a long one and i don't have anything to do.. sometimes i wish i could forget what i read just to re-experience it again

I have had that same experience. I have great difficulty re-reading anything because I know what happens already! I wish I could push a button, un-read the book, and relive the experience.

moderntimes · Post by **moderntimes** » 29 May 2015, 18:27

Wanting to un-read a book is what I occasionally experience as a reviewer when I come across a really terribly written novel. Sigh.

Gravy · Post by **Gravy** » 29 May 2015, 18:44

zeldas_lullaby wrote:
Adakage wrote:I do laugh if it's funny, and i get upset sometimes but the biggest emotion of all is the emptiness when i finish a long one and i don't have anything to do.. sometimes i wish i could forget what i read just to re-experience it again
I have had that same experience. I have great difficulty re-reading anything because I know what happens already! I wish I could push a button, un-read the book, and relive the experience.

I started a thread about this

I think this must be a universal "reader" thing