how to become a vampire without being bitten

[janine]

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_release...

i swear i have never read twilight, but i am the clumsiest person i know.

[Mark]

I know one or two psychic vampires (trans. Draining biatches) does that count.

[Janice]

A vampire (psychic or otherwise) is a parasite and takes without consent. When you read a book, you are engaging in a consentual relationship. The author wants you to read the book. The publisher wants you to read the book.

[Lyzzibug ~Still Breathing~]

Interesting article. I have noticed before that when I am with a certain group of friends I can be more outgoing as appose to a different mellower group of fiends. I didn't know that reading a book you also assimilate to becoming like the characters in your book.

[Jackie "the Librarian"]

Sure, a book with well-written characters will have the reader identifying with the characters. That's what gives readers more empathy and understanding of what it's like to be someone else.

[~Geektastic~]

Without this almost involuntary empathy, I don't think there would be so many ravenous readers. Just hearing/seeing the words is not enough to create bookworms, there has to be a connection and I'm just surprised this research is occurring now. I think this is why switching genres abruptly is so jarring, and why we just can't get into certain books without being "in the mood" for that environment.