on books

[eventhere]

What I love about a novel is how they change a person.  Not only how they shape how one views the subject matter at hand, or even the surrounding world, but how a good novel settles just below the surface or burrows deep inside and is carried there for the rest of the reader's life.

Comments

[philamen]

I find I'm incredibly influenc-able though ... that is, if I read a depressing novel like "She's Come Undone" then I find that I'm depressed while I'm reading it. Makes me have to think very carefully about what I read and watch. I guess we should all be careful anyway though.