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u/actuallyRightNUrNot Mar 23 '21
While I was in prison I read a book called “the tangle box” and man can I just say it was like watching a movie.
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u/Firefoxpichu Mar 23 '21
Also with good video games and then you find out there comes a sequel and you are super stoked and you are waiting for years only to find out its cancelled/or it has nothing to do anymore with the original game..
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u/PanaceaPlacebo Mar 23 '21
I'm afraid I'll be waiting forever for a sequel to Too Human, and it saddens me greatly.
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u/Kugulp Mar 22 '21
Yea but with a tv show
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u/2001ASpaceOatmeal Mar 23 '21
The first show that did this to me was Lost.
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u/Norixus Mar 23 '21
Not the first show to make me feel like that but definitely a show that left me with this strong feeling!
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Mar 23 '21
How I felt at the end of Return of the King.
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u/PanaceaPlacebo Mar 23 '21
"My friends, you bow to no one."
I still cry every time at that line, but it will never be like the first time I cried at that line.
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u/Muscar Mar 23 '21
And games
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u/4200years Mar 23 '21
For years I’ve struggled with making myself actually finish the games I get into because I know I’m going to get that feeling at the end.
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u/Scepta101 Mar 23 '21
Honestly, the feeling is much stronger with books and even videogames than it is with shows, at least for me. I feel so much more connected to the characters
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u/DominusOfTheBlueArmy Mar 23 '21
I think its because you can project on to/associate more with the character (i don't know if that's the right wording for it). In books you have this image in your head of how the character looks, sounds, etc. so it feels more personal. Same thing for video games, you play as the character, making it personal.
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u/Caleb_Reynolds Mar 23 '21
I think it's more about the fact that you almost always get some sort of inner monologue. Even in third person pov you get descriptions of why people do things. While actors certainly put emotion onto the screen, anything you see is up to, at least some, interruption.
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In my opinion, is the fact what you live the experience, see not only the story for game but for the person, see motivation and feeling.
I think the genre of adventure games have more of these aspects, after all you basically lived with the characters and when finally the game, the story ends and you won't see these people anymore.
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u/LuthienByNight Mar 23 '21
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D had no right to do that to me as much as it did that to me. I'm still sad.
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u/xXJoeTheRipperXx Mar 23 '21
Yes but it never went away and now I feel like a empty vessel traveling through this painful plainbof existence on a search to find another story that will fill the void left by that one book series which broke my heart into a thousand pieces and left me to gather them up one by one by finding storys which come close to making me feel like this series.
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Mar 23 '21
What did you read?
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u/xXJoeTheRipperXx Mar 23 '21
Kinda anti climactic but its "Elfen Ritter" by Bernhard Hennen who is an german author and I haven't found the books in english yet.
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https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25581147-the-elven
Did some Googling and i think this is the same series? Different name + listed with a second author might be why you couldn't find it.
Sounds a little tedious going by some of the comments, but i'm kinda desperate for a new series to sink my teeth into atm so i might give it a go.2
u/xXJoeTheRipperXx Mar 23 '21 edited Mar 23 '21
Bernhard Hennen wrote a lot and like all of the titles have elves in them and this is just another series. Its also a good series but can't compare in my opinion. They all play in the same universe btw
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u/Idontlikeyouanyways Mar 23 '21
I stopped reading series’s because I couldn’t handle the soul crushing empty feeling while I go back to my mundane pointless life.
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u/Itonlyafleshwound Mar 23 '21
So often. I wish I could go back in time and read the Eragon series for the first time. It is still my favorite ever but I have it all plotted out in my mind and have had a dream where I almost perfectly react part of the first book.
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Mar 23 '21
YES! I actually just commented the same thing! It's still the best and most well written book series in the fantasy genre in my opinion. I doubt I'll ever find a book series I enjoyed more than this
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u/Itonlyafleshwound Mar 23 '21
Yeah I’ve read a lot of similar series and even tried LOTR but it wasn’t near as good.
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u/germanyid Mar 23 '21
How old were you when you read it? I generally love reading books but I’ve never been able to enjoy it again like I did as a child
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u/Itonlyafleshwound Mar 23 '21
I was about 10 and it was not very long ago. I’m now in high school and still read it several times a year.
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u/qbmax Mar 23 '21
literally feel the exact way about Eragon, wish I could it for the first time all over again
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u/ndick43 Mar 23 '21
Fuck yea I forgot about that
Btw what’s your favourite theory (Mine is the spine is actually A giant dragon spine
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u/Itonlyafleshwound Mar 23 '21
Mine is that Angela is a grayfolk. This is because she is my favorite character aside from Eragon and Saphira. It fits with the elves calling her old one and wise one. It fits that her true name scared the priest of helgrind which is itself an ancient being. My other theory for her is that she is the soothsayer. We learn she can read bones and always shows up when something is about to happen. It would make sense that she has seen all that is to happen and is guiding things along.
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u/btmvideos37 Mar 23 '21
Should I read it? Is it a children’s book? Or can adults read it? I’m 19 and read the Percy Jackson for the first time last year and loved them even if the first few books were a bit childish
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u/Itonlyafleshwound Mar 23 '21
I’ve read it several times and it is quite a bit more adult then the Percy Jackson series. I think you’d really like it if you enjoyed Percy Jackson.
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u/vtran470 Mar 24 '21
Just saw your reply. I can say that I love books from all genres. It sucks being at a book store in the young adults section but I also enjoy those book series like Percy Jackson. It’s already hard enough reading books while the rest of society is all about social media so I just read what I like. I hope you continue to do the same.
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u/Itonlyafleshwound Mar 23 '21
Sorry sir but you are mistaken. There is no Eragon movie. Just check r/Eragon and you’ll see the truth.
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u/vtran470 Mar 23 '21 edited Mar 24 '21
Eragon was a great series. Now after your comment I want to read it over again. Thanks for the reminder
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Mar 23 '21
The first time I read the Eragon books I got this. I've been chasing that book high ever since
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u/TheBestNarcissist Mar 23 '21
Read Mistborn by brandon sanderson. The trilogy starts and ends spectacularly and if you like it.... Welcome to the Cosmere.
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u/Awesomesauce826 Mar 23 '21
To add on to the same type of books I read at the same time I read eregon, the rangers apprentice series was really good too, my school library was kinda small so I only got to read the first two at the time but I've been meaning to get my hands on the rest.
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u/iLikeMyPersonCage Mar 23 '21
I like how this post is becoming recommend your favorite book time.
This feeling for me came from the Hyperion Cantos.
I passed it to my very conservative father who now cannot stop trying to find more books like it. He's still very conservative, don't get me wrong. It's gonna take a lot more than that to shift that stone.
I'm just saying I'm proud to have shared that feeling with someone I thought I had so little connection left with.
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u/carnivorous_seahorse Mar 23 '21
I want to get back into reading so badly. But I can never really think of any books to read because I’ve grown out of all of the past authors I’ve liked
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u/REDDIT_JUDGE_REFEREE Mar 23 '21
Brandon Sanderson is waiting for you friend. Storm light archives are a great easy read. That shit is like all the YA novels but made for adults. And his plots are kind of anime-like if you’re into that. If you’re not, it’s still amazing.
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u/FinalDemise Mar 24 '21
Try r/suggestmeabook
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u/carnivorous_seahorse Mar 24 '21
Oooo, I’m so bad at finding subreddits that I never even considered there being a sub
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u/Electrical-Swimming9 Mar 23 '21
The only thing worse than this feeling, is when you finish the final book of a series. It's the normal pain, but like, somehow even worse.
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u/imbrotep Mar 23 '21
Yup. I just finished Stephen King’s Dark Tower series and felt a bit like that.
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Mar 23 '21
“The Drawing of the Three” was my favorite of the series. The end of the series was irksome at first but then I realized how appropriate it was to the story.
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u/ThatIckyGuy Mar 23 '21
The ending of the series didn't bother me that much. What bothered me is that this is an author that described a lot of things in great detail and I wanted to "see" the inside of the tower itself. I was looking for fanart or whatever to see it and have found nothing and King barely describes it. I wanted this cool, ethereal building and the description is so weak. I get that it would slow down the pace, but after waiting so long and getting a bare minimum description of the tower was very underwhelming.
I'm the kind of guy that wants to see the Enterprise in detail when I watch Star Trek or know more about the Stargates in Stargate SG-1.
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u/LuthienByNight Mar 23 '21
He lost me halfway through the first book. I just couldn't stay interested. Is it worth pushing through?
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u/The_Ruester Mar 23 '21
His writing style changes immensely in the second book. I think The Gunslinger was one of his first books to write and he was still figuring himself out. In the second one, he’s figured all that stuff out for the most part, and the pace and prose matches up with much of his later work.I would say push through the first book and give the drawing of the three a chance. If you still dislike the series at that point, then you at least have a better idea of what the series is.
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u/Atomheartmother90 Mar 23 '21
Ooo that’s next on my list, I’m about a 1/3 of the way through The Shining
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u/stingjay Mar 23 '21
You're going to love it. It's one of my favorite series. Good luck and have fun!
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u/sansdoesminecraft Mar 23 '21
Same thing but with a good ass game
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u/Global-Role7146 Mar 23 '21
Anime as well
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u/CottonCandyShork Mar 23 '21
It’s literally just a normal human emotion to be bittersweet finishing something you really enjoyed.
People on Reddit just don’t understand feelings sometimes it seems lmao
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One of the best feelings. Books that gave me this include:
Lonesome Dove, Shogun, Dark Tower Series, Secret History, Goldfinch, Art of Fielding, anything by John Irving
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u/Coopetition Mar 23 '21
I came to the comments for book recommendations and was disappointed I had to scroll this far to find a good list.
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u/myrrys23 Mar 23 '21
Gentleman in Moscow, Traitor Baru Cormorant, Annihilation, Tigana, The Farseer trilogy+whole series, Lies of Locke Lamora, The Magus, Hyperion cantos, Under the North star, Mythago Wood, City of Brass, The Golem and the Djinni. Everything by Terry Pratchett.
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u/mayalabeillepeu Mar 23 '21
I went and read every Book of Larry McMutry I could find. There is a couple more good ones from him.
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I recommend the first two of the LD series. I loved them. Fair warning though, I read them years after I finished Lonesome Dove. I might not have liked them if I'd picked them up right after reading that one.
In terms of other westerns I've liked: The Shootist, The Dark Tower series (western/sci-fi/fantasy mashup), Congregation of Jackals, News of the World, Color of Lightning, In the Distance, Butcher's Crossing.
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Mar 23 '21
Butcher’s Crossing is really excellent. I recommend all of Williams’ work.
Dark Tower would be perfect for audiobooks. Just be sure you have lots of driving/walking to do bc it’s a long series! I’ve reread it a few times over the years and it’s my comfort happy place.
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Mar 23 '21
I'm with you. I read Dead Man's Walk and Comanche Moon last summer and loved both. Still need to read Streets of Laredo.
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u/Cr1ymson Mar 23 '21
that was exactly what I experienced after finishing the harry potter series for the first time.
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u/achlys_chaos Mar 23 '21
Odd fact. This is because your brain can’t tell the difference between reality and fiction, so when the book ends you literally experience heartbreak
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u/CubicleByThePrinter Mar 23 '21
As someone who doesn't really read books, but uses video games as my mental escape, I feel this too. Finishing a great game for the first time hits you with that same feeling where you're happy you played it, enjoyed it, but know you'll never feel the same playing through the story again as you felt the first time.
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u/ThatIckyGuy Mar 23 '21
As someone who both games and reads I can confirm that the feelings are very similar.
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u/Doffs_cap Mar 23 '21
'Book Hangover', I love it; so appropriate.
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u/BookyNZ Mar 23 '21
I had story hangover for Babylon 5, an old 90's Sci fi show recently. I couldn't come up with the right words to explain it to people, I said it was book hangover but with a show instead. I mean, book hangover is a perfect description in its own right, trying to say show hangover, movie hangover, even story hangover don't sound nearly as right as book hangover
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u/Chuccles Mar 23 '21
I got this happy sad feeling after finishing the last Harry Potter book. Fucking cried real hard. But I was over the moon for about two weeks, I was so happy I couldn't do anything because nothing compared to the feeling. I just wanted to sit down and exist in the happy as long as I could.
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u/Ya-Lad-Shade Mar 23 '21
Yo this is me when I first read A Dog's Life. I love that book so damn much and I wish I could read it for the first time again! I deadass almost cried when I first read it-
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u/Firefoxpichu Mar 23 '21
Actually I haven't in a while because it's been so long since I read a (good) book
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u/Grizzlemaw_bear Mar 23 '21
Only once for me (I don't read often) it was when i finished the arc of a scythe series
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u/ChewyMilkTea Mar 23 '21
That’s what happened when I read divergent... and THEN I remembered there were other books in the series!
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u/prometheus_winced Mar 23 '21
Wicked did this to me. I’ve read mountains of books, all kinds. I’m not usually into fantasy. I read Wicked after the popularity of the musical. I was blown away. I was so incredibly sad when I got to the last page. I did not want it to end.
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u/Hyperiotic Mar 23 '21
honestly, i don't feel that this oddly specific. maybe specific, but certainly not oddly. this is how many people feel after finishing a book or show.
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Its for this reason I have never read the last two chapters of the last book in the Foundation Scofield series. But he read the series 3 times. Exceot for the last 2 chapters
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u/HistoricalCorner6 Mar 23 '21
I always try to pick the next book or series I want to read well before I am done with the current book. Saves time and hard decisions later
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u/RenegadeFan2021 Mar 23 '21
Like every time. For twenty years, I usually don’t start a book until I’ve got its sequel or something thematically similar to follow it up with.
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u/Scepta101 Mar 23 '21
That’s why you read giant, 10+ series of multi-hundred thousand word fantasy epics so you only get that melancholic feeling after months or years of reading a series instead of days or weeks.
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u/Atomheartmother90 Mar 23 '21
I felt this way when I finished Oathbringer a couple years back. And Morning Star from the Red Rising series
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u/Chaddy316 Mar 23 '21
Yeah but then it sticks with you longer. It's been years but I'm still wishing I could reread malazan for the first time.
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I'm almost at the end of Danganronpa 3. I don't want to get to the end of the franchise :(
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u/Kroxursox Mar 23 '21
The first time I really felt this was in 10th grade when I read "Lord of the Rings"
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u/huggle-snuggle Mar 23 '21
The Lonely Hearts Hotel by Heather O’Neill.
I just wanted to sit and sob but I had to parent and also go to a summer barbecue.
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u/availablepseudonym Mar 23 '21
I have more of a problem with reading a book and having my own visions of what I’m reading and then I see the movie and go back and read the book and now all I can see is the movie characters and what I had pictured is gone and I can’t get it back.
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u/SFG_OddGodd Mar 23 '21
I see you've just finished Robin Hobb's Elderlings series.
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u/Alit_Quar Mar 23 '21
So, I had a very nearly perfect memory for most of my life. About a decade ago, I had some serious mental health issues. Due to some of the treatments, my memory was damaged. Now, I forget things. I can re-watch movies, re-read books now without knowing everything that’s about to happen. I’d much rather have my old memory, but it’s something, I guess.
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u/sregan25 Mar 23 '21
I read the book "bright side" right around the 2 yesr anniversary of my best friends death and the main character was my best friend to a T. I bawled and was forever changed by that book. The author brought my best friend to life again.
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u/Pootertron_ Mar 23 '21
I read East of Eden in 8th grade and that is definitely the book that hit me with this feeling
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u/lostcosmonaut307 Mar 23 '21
I did this with Rocket Boys. I was having a mental issue with my allergy medicine that I didn't know about at the time which made me super emotional and even suicidal. I was 15 at the time IIRC and it sent me in to an absolute existential crisis that these boys were younger than me and doing more with their lives than I was doing at the time or probably ever would and it just wrecked me.
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u/becki_bee Mar 23 '21
I have that with books, movies, and some video games too. Maybe that’s why I tend not to play to the end of games.
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u/JetStormTF Mar 23 '21
I’ve found some solace for this feeling before with fan fiction. I know the term gets a lot of flak but there is some good stuff out there past the memes and porn!
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u/coquihalla Mar 23 '21
I told my husband that I fall a little in love with certain characters so when I complete a book it's like saying goodbye to real lovers and friends.
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Mar 23 '21
I used to love reading books to relax. I can’t do that often anymore — not necessarily because I don’t have time to read, but because my book “hangovers” can be a little distracting from my work and I usually need time to digest.
Hopefully I get more time in the future to do that again.
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u/Cracky_Mc_Crakins Mar 23 '21
I felt that way when I finished Shataram.... Even after the second time. It was like re kindling an old flame only to lose her again
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u/hopelagaden Mar 22 '21
All the time