Book Plague

Have you ever read a book that affected you so much that it causes you to be mentally sick for a while because of the many emotional changes you go through as you read that book? Have you ever just wanted to be alone for 4 weeks in order to persay "recover" after you read a book that you love and now ended?

I have. I have read many great writings in my day (and not so great ones), but nonetheless, the ones that I cherish tend to be the ones that cause me to a nonsocial person just for the fact that I need to recover. However, I do not believe that we ever recover from those book plagues. I think that we just learn to live with the condition they give us and try to be that person that we were once were. But, some people in our lives leave because they cannot stand our mental being anymore, or they leave because we push them away, since some can only do harm to us after the book.

I know. It sounds cliche to change after a book. But after a very influential and great book, I cannot help but think, "All this time in my life, I have lived without this book. How? How do I live without its influences over me again?"

People left my life because of certain ways of making them leave. There is the classic "I am not feeling well. You are better off going some place else," and there is the contemporary "Leave me be,".

So this is my warning to you. Whenever you read any book I suggest, you may get "book plague". I get it, and it will be different for all of us. I just laid in bed for 4 weeks, ate a bunch of cereal, and listened to Billy Joel and The Smiths. I get it severely, but my sister, not so much. She just lays out on the grass on those sunny days on our front lawns, and she did that for 5 days. My mother just locks herself into her room with her coconut meat, and she will occasionally allows us to visit her throughout the day. "Book plague" is different for everyone.

With love,

Violet Sar Bleu

P.S. What are some books or plays or poems that affected your life? Also, I have been wondering, who is the other of the poem, Howl? I cannot seem to find the author, but the poem is saved onto my hard drive.