Do you ever feel the emotions characters in books are feeling?

Yes. Pain, too. I don’t think reading fiction is a lot of fun if you don’t have the ability to empathize.

Of course. Everytime I read a book I have a feeling I am seeing the world through the characters’ eyes. So of course I can feel what they feel.

@longgone is right that without empathy reading isn’t fun. I also want to add that a good imagination also boost the fun.

Yes. That is what separates a good author from a great author, the ability to make your heart race in an exciting moment, to feel the ache of a missed love, the dread as the principal comes in the classroom to get you.

Absolutely. Books make me feel emotions that I would not otherwise be experiencing. Like grief or falling in love. I have felt them and feel them again but in a controlled way. I think that books help you cope with new situations – if you have experience what a character has been through then if it happens to you, you have some knowledge of how to cope.

I liked “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close”. I don’t often think this but the film was even better

Yes and why I like reading books more than watching movies.

I find myself talking and acting like them. I was Scarlett O’Hara for ever so long because that’s a long ass book!

Yep love escapism. But don’t read Anne Rice’s erotica.. quite awful. Thankfully I didn’t identify with any of the characters in the book.

Mmm. Wonder how I would have been acting had I read 50 Shades of Grey.

I was wondering the same thing @Dutchess_III Though I don’t think I will prioritize finding out.