Short Reader Survey, please!

[Dani]

GENDER:
(F)
AGE:

18-30

1) Do you enjoy novels with unlikable characters? Yes

1b) If yes, what interests you about them?
Getting inside the head of someone who doesn't think like you. It's extremely intriguing.

2) Disturbing Content: Off-Putting, or Intriguing? Do you run like you've just seen a ghost, or watch it like a train wreck, wondering what could possibly happen next?

Intriguing, I think with out distrubing books we wouldn't be able to fully see our own reality or recognize certain aspects of horror, terror or suffering. Most of them are meant to awake our sense of reality. I'm usually wondering what will happen next but sometimes it is more like awaiting a train wreck.

3) Please give character and book title for each question below as a point of reference:

3a) Who are some of your favorite unlikable characters of all time.

Alex from A Clockwork Orange
Mr. Hyde from Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
Dracula from Dracula
King Richard from The Tragedy of King Richard III
Ben from The Fifth Child
Sula from Sula

What books with disturbing content were you unable to put down?

A Clockwork Orange - Rape scenes
Lucky - Rape scenes
Needful Things - Young child commits suicide

3b) Likewise, which characters, unlikable or otherwise, were so off-putting it stopped you finishing the book?

I can't recall any novel that I've read that ever turned me away and made me stop reading with distrubing content but I do remember being quite bothered after reading The Fifth Child. The whole story was on the verge of being too real yet absolutely horrific too.

What books were so damn sweet they gave you a toothache, and all you could do was roll your eyes and reach for the ambesol?

The Chronicles of Narnia and the only romance book I've ever read Whitney, My Love. I wanted to gag with the gushy scenes. In saying that it also had a very disturbing rape scene and relationship.

4) If you had to choose between a gritty read and fluffy read, what is your choice:
Gritty

5) Anything else you'd like to add on the subject? Please only answer if you are willing to be quoted, the rest of the survey is anonymous.

Feel free to use anything I've written as a quote. This was a interesting topic and one worth looking at.