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Wuthering Heights. NTs need to learn that not everything needs to make sense to work. Especially love.
Wuthering Heights. NTs need to learn that not everything needs to make sense to work. Especially love.
It's interesting how the Fe works in INTPs. I'm actually fine with very dry books like Catch-22 that don't have intense emotions but don't do very well with the Lolita type of books.
My kind of "emotional" fiction is Bronte sisters stuff, where emotions are presented as the ultimate truth, for lack of a better phrase, like emotions are true and they don't need to be judged. I've never read Lolita because a part of me always felt that Nabokov was being manipulative and I hated the idea of being lulled into feeling of beauty or love. I read the first page of Lolita once. Nabokov's words were so beautiful that I just couldn't read any more. I couldn't bear the thought of that beauty and those feelings being used to present such monstrous acts.
In general, I don't read much fiction anymore. Maybe it's the Fi? I can't help but take on the feelings and attitudes of the characters. They follow me around for days. I'm getting ready to pick up Lolita again tho!! I really want to get through it this time and hope that my reaction will be more and less
Wuthering Heights. NTs need to learn that not everything needs to make sense to work. Especially love.
P.S. I love you - Cecelia Ahern
In all seriousness, would Michael Crichton's books be of interest to NT's?
I was told by an NT to read Next, then i just went on to read state of fear and sphere. These are not usually my cup of tea, but bloody interesting nonetheless and i couldn't put them down.
I hate this book. The movie too (probably Hillary Swank. I don't like her at all as an actress). I loved the idea of the story and how it all played though.
1984--brilliant
Wuthering Heights. NTs need to learn that not everything needs to make sense to work. Especially love.
Strange that Lolita is hard for you to get through but you can stomach Bronte. I find that Bronte has written some of the most misunderstood characters in literature. Heathcliff and Kathy are pretty despicable people but so many people think it's a "romantic" story. It's not. They are petty, selfish people who, in the end, lose everything because of their need for revenge and selfishness and destroy the lives of the ones who tried to love each of them.
I read a lot of short stories more than novels nowadays. I'm a big fan of Flannery O'Connor. Southern Gothic writer. So fabulous!
Okay, I'm drunk and I've typed way too much.