| May 17, 2007 @ 11:54 AM |
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Godless
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Does anyone but me actually live what they are reading?
I avoid reading because of the intensity. For instance, I can, in no way shape or form, read erotica without feeling every single thing the herion feels... from the breeze on her face and clenching of her hands to the breath on her neck... I'm trying to keep it clean here, but yes to EVERYTHING.
Character development is sometimes the worst. Steven King, of all people, develops characters very well, and I get to where I despise or adore them and almost feel like I'm watching them through the windows.
It is no suprise that I can't handle reading about some things... particularly murders, because the intensity is so great that it disturbs me and my thoughts become strange.
Anyone else have this problem?
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| May 17, 2007 @ 5:39 PM |
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warrior674
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Several years ago I read The Iceman: The True Story of a Cold-Blooded
Killer by Anthony Bruno. It's about Richard Kuklinski, a mob hit-man. It
was disturbing reading about what a rotting corpse looks like. It described
the milky looking eyes of a body that had been left in the heat for a week.
That made me almost throw up! I have really vivid dreams after reading
stuff like that. When I read that book, it was like I was there. I was kinda
glad when it ended. I don't like to get too involved in reading now. That
guy was fascinating though. I don't know why.
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| May 17, 2007 @ 5:43 PM |
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spongebob777
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I've got a pretty vivid imagination so I do occasionally have trouble reading about some things.
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| May 17, 2007 @ 5:45 PM |
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kattsmeow
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When I am reading a book, I am in the story! I might be on the side lines, looking or watching. If this isn't how reading is for a person, they need to try a different author or something!
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| May 17, 2007 @ 6:28 PM |
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Godless
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When I read that book, it was like I was there. I was kinda
glad when it ended. I don't like to get too involved in reading now
Wow! A kindred soul. I actually avoid all of it sometimes, because I just don't have the energy to deal with real life and what feels real in the story. So, you understand. Great!
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| May 17, 2007 @ 8:15 PM |
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blueyes101
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Godless will you read me some smut?..........PLEASE !!!!!!!!!!!!!  
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| May 17, 2007 @ 8:29 PM |
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definitelydi
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Nahhh...I don't really have any feelings. 
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| May 17, 2007 @ 8:44 PM |
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MarysPlace
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Hmmm... You sound like you would like to borrow my forensics books. They are... very informative and they have very nice pics... Graphic pics...
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| May 17, 2007 @ 8:47 PM |
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MortisDruss
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Yes, I fall into the hole of the book very easily.
I can smell scents, feel weather etc.
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| May 17, 2007 @ 9:25 PM |
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Godless
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Godless will you read me some smut?..........PLEASE !!!!!!!!!!!!!
I would, but I might have to excuse myself. 
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| May 17, 2007 @ 9:27 PM |
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Godless
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Hmmm... You sound like you would like to borrow my forensics books. They are... very informative and they have very nice pics... Graphic pics...
Oddly enough, pictures and TV shows don't affect me that way. I'm not a very spacial person, I guess.... actually love Forensic Files and all the other shows on Court TV. Are you a pathologist?
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| May 17, 2007 @ 9:27 PM |
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| May 17, 2007 @ 9:39 PM |
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signme
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I'm okay with the books and reading about things. What I can't handle are the true disaster movies. I saw the movie "Hindenburg" when I was young and it scared me to death, all those people jumping to their deaths. I can't watch real disasters that are depicted in movies. Can't can't can't. 
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| May 17, 2007 @ 9:54 PM |
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warrior674
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Oddly enough, pictures and TV shows don't affect me that way. Same with me. I've seen the most graphic stuff on TV and on the internet. I
stumbled across a couple of sites that showed people cut in half, run over by
trains, decapitated and all of that. They had really graphic photos of suicides and
murders, but all of those pictures looked fake to me. What I picture in my mind
is much worse than TV, pictures in books and on the net.
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| May 17, 2007 @ 10:05 PM |
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blueyes101
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I can watch surgeries, and stuff like that, but some of the funniest videos ect. make me cringe.......I have one I taped the other day, called. Holy Sh!t I turned it on, and it was about learning how to do back flips on a motorcycle, and they land in a huge pile of foam. Well, this one guy missed the foam completely, and landed upside down into/on a bobcat ( tractor ) and you could hear him hit, and then fall to the ground in a heap.........shit like that makes me "feel it" but, watching say, police chases, and seeing a car crash, means nothing........I still get the chills about having my index finger go through a meat slicer years ago,,,,,,,,,feeling the nerves being severed all at once, nice and clean............Just a perfect hole right in your finger........And I have a visual memory of a friend dropping a bowling ball on his bare toe, on a cement basement floor, and hearing the bounce, with what was left of his toe underneath........ 
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| May 17, 2007 @ 10:08 PM |
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Godless
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Ugh... now my stomach is churning... how did I not see this post backfiring?
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| May 17, 2007 @ 10:12 PM |
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MarysPlace
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Are you a pathologist?
Hell, no. I'm just an architect. If only I could have 2 careers... *sigh* Crime is my hobby... I could read and watch that stuff all day long...
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| May 17, 2007 @ 10:24 PM |
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blueyes101
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Sorry Godless, didn't mean to backfire your thread, I don't share your feelings on reading, but things do bother me, thats all. 
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| May 17, 2007 @ 11:32 PM |
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Godless
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no biggie... I got to the stomach churning and quit.. lol
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| May 17, 2007 @ 11:43 PM |
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NatGoat
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Oh, Yeah, Godless. .
I get that way . . even watching TV shows . . !!!
I just can't Stand seeing a Beautiful woman Cry . . !!! . .
Like Annette O'toole . . {Smallville} . .
...and Kissing scenes choke me up, Too . . !!! . .
{Cause I MISS It, so Much . . !}
[May I write you somthing . . ??]
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