Anyone here ever quit reading a book because to avoid knowing

>>8641249
>that much empathy
lel
>Anyone here ever quit reading a book because to avoid knowing about awful things happening to some of the characters?
no

>>8641249
>I don't think I can finish Stoner after seeing the direction his relationship with Edith was going.
>I had a lot of trouble getting through Crime and Punishment because I was afraid his family and friend would find out about his crime and abandon him. I'm glad I got through it though.


Don't worry about Infinite Jest though, it's not worth it anyway.

Sure that's why you stopped reading Infinite Jest.

>>8641249

I would encourage you to go back to IJ at some point. Depending on how far you've read, you've already read about what happened to Hal.

My experience wasn't with a book but the video game Shadow of the Colossus. In the game you track down and slay several colossi in order to rescue a girl from some kind of enchantment. It's a bit like Don Quixote with killing. The colossi are generally peaceful. Your character even visibly loses something of his humanity over the course of the game. I got really uncomfortable with the whole thing and have never finished it.

Also, from what I understand about Dostoyevsky's plans for The Life of a Great Sinner (of which The Brothers Karamazov was to be the first part), I'm glad in a way it was left unfinished because I don't want to think about Alyosha going through all that

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Hey Hal?

I'm sorry if you're sad, Hal. You seem sad.

>>8641249
lol faggot

>>8642585
>The Life of a Great Sinner (of which The Brothers Karamazov was to be the first part)

I thought Life of a Great Sinner was a different novel, a non-starter he planned out but never wrote, and that, rather than Karamazov being the first part of it, he used ideas he had for the abandoned novel in Demons and Karamazov. But I'm not a Dostoevsky buff.

>>8642596

That's very sweet, Otis let Mario borrow his propeller beanie.

I was diagnosed with Asperger's. To feel empathy for a living person is hard enough.

When I was in college one of my English professors told us a story about a kid he taught who had some disease where he couldn't distinguish fiction from non-fiction—he thought everything he read really happened—and The Scarlet Letter upset him greatly.

>>8642687
(cont.) He didn't say what the disease was called, and I still don't know whether it's real; I just assume it is because the professor seemed like a genuine guy and not a liar.

>>8642596
>>8642635
I have no idea how Mario is supposed to look like 2bh; he reads almost inhuman w/r/t his physical description. I blame Wallace for that.

>>8642708
I always visualized Wallace's imagery worth a grotesque sort of 90s animation in mind. Reading Gately's description, then of the skullless wife, then of that scene with the wheelchair on the Hill scooping up that guy.. Those just fit the gritty aesthetic so well.

>>8642549
I sorta agree with you, but your response is edgy/10 senpai

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>>8642708
He's basically the mutant version of Alyosha from TBK.

>>8642708
>I blame Wallace for that
you make it sound like it's poor writing rather than something intentional

>>8643330
It wasn't intentional, it's a byproduct of autism.