fredthe3rd wrote:

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Anyone ad any extreme reactions to a book? Has a book changed your life? It didn't change my life but when I finished Gerald's Game I had a feeling approaching euphoria. I was in the middle of a train holiday across Europe. I read the whole book in a week (which is very quick for me) and its a gruesome book in parts, I was squirming and clutching my neck as I read, can't imagine what other passengers thought. Then read the last fifty odd pages late at night in a hotel room then couldn't sleep because I was too pumped up. Good times.

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 Both Crash by JG Ballard and Atomised by Michel Houellebecq have changed my life and caused rather extreme reactions. With both books I found it very difficult to sleep while reading them and have a feeling of loss upon finishing them. They were both emotionally draining but also, as you describe, left one with a euphoria bordering on psychosis.

fredthe3rd wrote:

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Left Behind? Really?

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Now come on fred there is an endless range of different people out there and what works for one may not work for another. Let's just leave it at that.