When you read a book you are literally becoming the person you're

>>8303742
did it really take a meme philosopher to find that out?

>>8303752
No, it took Don Quixote, but it just blows my mind, now I know why people read the bible/koran so seriously, and understand paranoid schizophrenics.

Not so much anon. Remember there's agency, so the interpretation of the novel, the core ideas, depends on you and you alone.
Then comes the discussions with other people who have read it too, and that's how you build up a character, a leit motiv for an author and their novel. It's more of a construction.

>>8303742
You are what you eat?

>>8303742
In the case that you have perfect empathy, and the work is perfectly written, then yes.
>In the case of the average 4channer ... ignorance + meanness, etc. --> Keely review of "The Road" on goodreads

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>tfw youre so empathic that you can empathize with everyone in books, even the crazy ones, like in Brothers Karamazov for instance.

Ugh just kill it all away senpai

>>8303742
stop putting the pathetic back in empathetic, OP. This is in no way a true statement.

>>8303742
That's not the only end of literature, Soren.