Everytime I finish a long-good novel, I always end up sitting on my couch for like 30mins-1hr.. Just thinking about the novel and just life in general.. It usually lasts for a few days, until I get my mind on something else
Does anyone else get this? Or is it just weirdo kage
Yeah I get that too. Right now I switch books too quickly to get this "depression" (reading all Anne Rice vamp chronicles) but the second I get some free time my mind wonders to what the book had to offer and what the meaning of life is. Usually this happens when I lie down to relax. Either in my bath, on the couch or in bed. I think thats what makes a good book good. It makes you wonder the meaning of life. It makes you wonder if such things were possible. Books today are writting in ways that try to make the whole thing possible. Take Harry Potter for instance. There is an explaination for everything so that wizards could be hidden from us normal folks. Makes you wonder if that could be possible. And then our minds automaticly try to prove it wrong. Find a flaw in the system. That can sometimes equal hours of thinking. When a book is well thoughtout and written it makes you wonder until you give up. Until you are tired of thinking.
So I think its pretty normal and thats the general goal of a book.
I dont know if this should be called a depression. But I also get that feeling also. Thats what I love about reading.
Depression might not be the exact word, but I experience something like that too. It's always good to think about what I've just read, and other than it just being an interesting story, see if I can get anything from it that I can reflect upon in my life. There's always a lesson to be learned, a blessing to be thankful for, a memory to be remembered, in a good book.
I get that, but not at the end, usually about 3/4 of the way through, no matter how interesting the book is, I'll just get sidetracked thinking about nothings for about 30-45 mins and then finish the book
I don't quite reflect on life in general after a good book, but I do sometimes think about the message hidden inside - or sometimes blatently shoved across. Sometimes it's a simple message, or one I automatically consider extremely valid or hideously invalid, so I don't spend long on it. But sometimes, a book will have a message that bothers me to consider (Frankenstein, for example. One of the things Mary Shelley seemed to be saying was that if you're ugly, you're a bad person, and that the prettier/handsomer you are, the better you are morally. Whether it's true or not, it is a common unconsious prejudice). Those are usually the books that leave me rather depressed and lethargic for hours at a time.
I don't think that those books are any better than any other books, though. The books I really like are the ones that open up a whole new path for my imagination to take, or ones that paint their scenes so vividly and realistically that I can watch the story unfold like a movie, and even after the book is done, I can keep the characters and send them on a new adventure of my own choosing, because the author did such a good job of bringing the entire story to life. Those books also lose me in thought for hours, without the side-effect of depressing me.
I too also get the feeling but it should be called depression i guess. When i finish reading a good book i hope there will be a next one like it but good books are hard to find. Right now i am reflecting on Eragon and now i not sure if Elder is out. If it is I am going to get it.
I don't look messages on the books. But i try to explroe the world they make... and think about lots of things... I love reading and more when the books keeps me thinking after.
^_^ I also like to think of books as entertainment rather than a puzzle full of secret messages. It just kills the imageries.
Yea, I'm bad with profound secret messages that books sometimes carry. Some I get... most I don't unless I read something telling me what all these weird things mean. As an author myself, I realize that although some things are meant to have meaning- people make up a lot of stuff you didn't even mean to put.
Yup, I had that with a wide variety of novels going from da vinci code to even harry potter, for me it is the point of literature.