Reading Fiction Increases Empathy

[rssllue]

Oh dear.

[kayla1080]

That's funny you bring that up because I just got done reading the fictional book (based on facts) The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult about the Halocaust. (It's in the Book of the Month forum here: http://forums.onlinebookclub.org/viewforum.php?f=56.) What kind of fictional books did Hitler read?

The Rosie Project is a love story about a guy with autism/Asberger's. Read the forum and check it out if you can! http://forums.onlinebookclub.org/viewto ... 44&t=17932

[Ryan]

That's funny you bring that up because I just got done reading the fictional book (based on facts) The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult about the Halocaust. (It's in the Book of the Month forum here: http://forums.onlinebookclub.org/viewforum.php?f=56.) What kind of fictional books did Hitler read?

The Rosie Project is a love story about a guy with autism/Asberger's. Read the forum and check it out if you can! http://forums.onlinebookclub.org/viewto ... 44&t=17932

Mainly German and classical authors, I think. He read lots of Roman literature (because of its associations with empire), but mainly satire by Juvenal and Horace. I also read somewhere that he liked Goethe and he received a copy of 'Peer Gynt' when he was younger. I think Franz Kafka too.

[zeldas_lullaby]

Empathy is a great thing to develop through reading. You just cannot know what someone else is dealing with, but reading shows worlds of hurt that no one would know about otherwise. Ann Landers had a mental glitch in which she could not figure out which direction she was going in. She had to park handicapped, or she'd never find her car. You think of people who see a healthy-looking person using the handicapped area, and they accost the person, not bothering to think that there are mental handicaps that could make the parking area near the shops necessary. Just as an example.

Of course, we've all known people who used their family member's handicapped logo to park illegally. I find this completely abhorrent, unless that person is handicapped too and just doesn't want to apply for permission. Anyways. I hope I didn't get off the topic there!

[rssllue]

That's funny you bring that up because I just got done reading the fictional book (based on facts) The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult about the Halocaust. (It's in the Book of the Month forum here: http://forums.onlinebookclub.org/viewforum.php?f=56.) What kind of fictional books did Hitler read?

The Rosie Project is a love story about a guy with autism/Asberger's. Read the forum and check it out if you can! http://forums.onlinebookclub.org/viewto ... 44&t=17932

Thanks!

[LivreAmour217]

Wow, that's so cool that reading fiction has helped you with Asperger's. My brother had Asperger's and The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion, although it's fiction, helped me empathize with him more!

I've never heard of that book! I'll have to check it out, thanks!

[Nishan Dass]

Yeah, it helps to percieve the same things in different ways.

[rssllue]

Gives perspectives.

[Fran]

I heard this morning that one of these airy-fairy pseudo psychology studies has "proven" that readers are more attractive to the opposite sex than non readers. Now, we here at the OBC need no "study" to tell us that!
But, according to this "study" anyway men are attracted to women who read erotic fiction and women are attracted to men who read thrillers. As our suzy would say "Go figure".
I wonder do people actually get paid to produce this kind of twaddle?

[Ryan]

I heard this morning that one of these airy-fairy pseudo psychology studies has "proven" that readers are more attractive to the opposite sex than non readers. Now, we here at the OBC need no "study" to tell us that!
But, according to this "study" anyway men are attracted to women who read erotic fiction and women are attracted to men who read thrillers. As our suzy would say "Go figure".
I wonder do people actually get paid to produce this kind of twaddle?

An extortionate amount

[kayla1080]

As John Waters once said, "if you go home with somebody and they don't have any books, don't f- them"

[zeldas_lullaby]

I heard this morning that one of these airy-fairy pseudo psychology studies has "proven" that readers are more attractive to the opposite sex than non readers. Now, we here at the OBC need no "study" to tell us that!
But, according to this "study" anyway men are attracted to women who read erotic fiction and women are attracted to men who read thrillers. As our suzy would say "Go figure".
I wonder do people actually get paid to produce this kind of twaddle?

So that's where I've gone wrong in my sorry singlehood! I don't read enough erotica. Thanks, Fran! I'm so on it.

[rssllue]

As John Waters once said, "if you go home with somebody and they don't have any books, don't f- them"

There are actually people out there like that?

[kayla1080]

Have you ever met John Waters? He's exactly like that He is the director of Hairspray, Pecker, and Pink Flamingos. I think that quote came out of his book, Role Models.

[rssllue]

Have you ever met John Waters? He's exactly like that He is the director of Hairspray, Pecker, and Pink Flamingos. I think that quote came out of his book, Role Models.

I meant ones who don't have books!