Do you ever..?
By BarBaraPrz
@BarBaraPrz (47670)
St. Catharines, Ontario
August 21, 2015 9:17am CST
I woke up angry this morning, and figured it was because of the book I'm currently reading: Maeve Binchy's Nights of Rain and Stars. One of the characters is in love with a self-centred angry young man... a real lout, but she's always making excuses for him because she [i[looooves[/i] him, even after he assaults her.
Do you ever get angry at fictional characters?
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@patgalca (18391)
• Orangeville, Ontario
21 Aug 15
Good to see you again. I just finished reading a book that a friend wrote. I was angry with one of the characters, actually two. That left me feeling uninterested because I couldn't find a liking for any character in the story. You kind of need to relate to someone, feel sorry for them, pull for them. In the end I started liking the female just because of the predicament she was in.
@BarBaraPrz (47670)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
22 Aug 15
I know what you mean about losing interest in a book because you don't like the characters. I almost didn't finish Timothy Findlay's Not Wanted On the Voyage because of Moses... really hated him.
@TLChimes (4822)
• United States
21 Aug 15
I got into reading to escape the real life. So I really get into the story. I have cried with the characters, got mad at them, and even told them to watch their back around another one. I also get mad at the writers when they leave the story not really finished. I want to know what happens next to the folks I have come to like.
@yukimori (10148)
• United States
21 Aug 15
Happened last night, actually. Thursdays are library day for Kid 1's kindergarten class, and she brought home a copy of Miss Spider's Wedding. Which of course had to be read at bedtime.
The basic story is that Miss Spider meets a meek little guy and they mutually decide they really like each other. But her "friend" decides he just won't do and goes and finds a complete lout to woo her instead. The lout tosses the friend and her mate into his web, then goes off to terrorize Miss Spider.
It really reminded me of the Don Bluth Thumbelina movie... which I thought was awful.
I'm so glad I get to send it back with her. Hopefully she'll find something better next week!
@BarBaraPrz (47670)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
22 Aug 15
That's a terrible thing to read to a kidlet at bedtime! What was her reation to it?
@allen0187 (58582)
• Philippines
22 Aug 15
When I was younger, yes, I would get mad at fictional characters. Nowadays, not really but sometimes, I go ahead and say to myself,'Wow! This is what exactly happened to me!'.
@topffer (42156)
• France
21 Aug 15
I laughed many times when the story was unlikely, but I have rarely been angry against a character. The writer has to be very good. I hated the couple Thénardier in Hugo's Misérables, and several characters in Zola's Rougon-Macquart books (greedy traders, industrial without heart, various drunkards...). Good realistic authors are more rare today.
@redvakaurvaki (4216)
• Indonesia
22 Aug 15
Unfortunately I'm not good reader. I don't read a lot of book. But yes, I don't like some fictional character on Fifty Shades of Grey. I thought the characters are shallow!
@jstory07 (139974)
• Roseburg, Oregon
26 Aug 15
Sometimes times I do wonderng why the character did a stupid things.