And then my boyfriend tried to tell me "it was just a book" - which doesn't help at all.
I don't know if this is always true for all men but I found that they more often don't take fictional things to heart then women. My husband is very practical, for example. Anna Karenina should not be read unprepared. In Russia I knew the ending long before I read it because the story is everywhere - in songs, in proverbs. But still that scene where she thinks about her life just before her death and also a moment where she actually wants to pull back and can't - this breaks my heart in tiny little pieces every time.
And even that I have read "Idiot" about 20 times I only read the ending once. I can't cope.
I agree about spoilers - I do the same. I am a real spoiler junkie . :) ASOIF for me was one of the books I read every spoiler I could put my hands on. I started doing it after reading about Ned's death - because I was unprepared for his execution it hit me very hard.
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I don't know if this is always true for all men but I found that they more often don't take fictional things to heart then women. My husband is very practical, for example. Anna Karenina should not be read unprepared. In Russia I knew the ending long before I read it because the story is everywhere - in songs, in proverbs. But still that scene where she thinks about her life just before her death and also a moment where she actually wants to pull back and can't - this breaks my heart in tiny little pieces every time.
And even that I have read "Idiot" about 20 times I only read the ending once. I can't cope.
I agree about spoilers - I do the same. I am a real spoiler junkie . :) ASOIF for me was one of the books I read every spoiler I could put my hands on. I started doing it after reading about Ned's death - because I was unprepared for his execution it hit me very hard.