Does the same happen to you? (book related)

regulus

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After finishing a particularly good book or great novel, you just feel ... uninterested in reading anything else? As if all the creative talent energy swirling around the cosmos has someone channelled (and exhausted) itself through the pen of the author of the book and conjured up an awesome story.

So much so that anything else cannot possibly be as good and would be a royal waste of time.

For me it's not unlike a great relationship that has came to an unfortunate end and I'm not quite ready to let someone else into my life :p

Just me?
 
I don't get that feeling, if I've read a great book then I quite often want to share the book with other people so they can experience the brilliant writing as well. Occasionally I'll feel a bit sad or disappointed that a book has ended but it's a matter of days or sometimes hours before I'm onto the next one - there's thousands if not millions of great books out there, I'm never going to read all of them but I can give it a decent shot.
 
Yes! I'll sometimes finish a book and think that anything else is just going to dissapoint, probably one of the main reasons I end up re-reading a lot of books :)
 
Not with books, no. Probably because there's a lot of books which I've bought and not got around to reading yet. Happens all the time with TV series', though. I normally sit and watch whole TV shows back to back throughout all the series' within a couple of weeks and then once I've finished I don't think there's anything else that could match it out there :p
 
shorttricky said:
If I've just read a good book I have to switch genres, otherwise I spend the whole time judging the next book against the previous one.
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Actually that is a point, I do tend to switch about genres with reasonable regularity, it's not after every single book but if it's a good book then I normally won't deliberately read something else from the same genre afterwards.
 
I tend to do a circa 6 monthly genre thing. It's very rare that I won't have a book in mind to go to straight after finishing the one I'm currently on though. I've got loads outstanding currently.
 
My big problem after finishing a book is if I start reading another straight after I sometimes wonder what's happened to certain characters, and situations, then remember I'm reading a different book :D
 
I also switch genres after each book.

In the last year I've read Moby Dick, Discworld – Going Postal, two non-fiction books on the Second World War (Max Hasting's Armageddon and Eugene Sledge's With The Old Breed), Don Winslow's Dawn Patrol, Le Carré's A Most Wanted Man, and I'm now re-reading The Restaurant at The End of The Universe until I get new books for Christmas.

When you hop around like that it's very easy to go from one book to another. However, I can imagine going from different authors in the same genre could get quite difficult.
 
Yes Regulus, i get that precisely. Reading a novel, particular elongated trilogies, takes time and effort to divulge the characters, plots and situations. There is a definite compulsion when reading to find out what happens next, and then when there is no more to read a sadness that its over.

I find that books infect me. During the reading and perhaps a few days after my mind becomes 'aligned' with the authors. My inner-monologue runs like their writing style and i find myself thinking things they would have thought etc.

As such, it can be emotionally exhausting but incredibly rewarding.
 
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