I find it so calming and it let go of all your problems.
2007-04-22 14:32:24 · 12 answers · asked by Bookworm101 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
i am free when i read.i see the world and i can do wonderful things,ride dragons or solve a mystery,even fall in love.!!!
2007-04-22 14:40:20 · answer #1 · answered by lady d 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well it depends on the book. Hitler's "Mein Kampf" is very boring; I could never get through that. "American Psycho" is disturbing. I don't know why it was written or published. I wouldn't read that either.
To me a good book is one I can get lost in. Its not a calming situation, its a matter of being transported to the place where the story occurs. I'm very aware of what's happening in the book, almost hyper and thinking about it when I'm not reading it. Not wanting to finish and sad when I do.
Best example I can think of was Peter Mathiessen's "At Play in the Fields of the Lord." I read that in Saudi Arabia during the first Persian Gulf war when I was very bored and working for a miltary organization with no mission or reason to be there.
2007-04-22 21:45:56 · answer #2 · answered by Necromancer 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I completely agree. When you get lost in a book, it's as if you're transported to another time and place. You get to live inside the story almost. Everything that mattered and troubled you moments before just disappears. At least, that's how I feel. I totally end up focusing on what's going on as if I'm a part of it and forget everything else.
2007-04-22 21:37:17 · answer #3 · answered by Jo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My Dad said, I started reading at the age of four years.
I am not sure if that's so, but I do remember loving books
from a very early age. I can relax with a book. I can go places and meet people.
2007-04-22 21:38:27 · answer #4 · answered by Bethany 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I find books amazingly peaceful! I can grab a book, begin reading it, and become more and more emcompassed in the whole thing, until it's all I can see, hear, smell, taste and feel. It's also very personal to you. No-one reads a book and experiences exactly what you did. It changes from person to person, even if it's just slightly.
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2007-04-22 21:44:22 · answer #5 · answered by Jack Creighton 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Books are definitely my #1 relaxation tool - except when they're not. They're not so relaxing when your author keeps putting your characters into awful jams and you HAVE to keep reading, even though you know you really should turn the light out and go to sleep.
But, it is true that, in those moments, its still the characters' problems you're worried about and not your own.
2007-04-22 21:39:18 · answer #6 · answered by poohba 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes it is calming just going into a good book seeing what the character see's .
2007-04-22 21:36:48 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I agree. It's an escape from the life we live and the world we live in.... we're walking in somone else's shoes and forgetting our own problems when we read stories.
2007-04-22 21:35:37 · answer #8 · answered by tenayaledeux00 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I totally lost track of time and place if i start reading - to me there is no better way to just relax and enjoy myself
2007-04-23 06:12:57 · answer #9 · answered by cheri 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes it does. i think it's because it releases our minds into the unknown world of: fantasy, mystery, suspense, historical, silly....anything you can name! it makes us forget our r/l issues and acknowledge those in the book.
i love reading a good book. sometimes i can become so warped into a book, i read it in a day!
2007-04-22 21:42:57 · answer #10 · answered by Samantha 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋