Writing Can a book drive you mad

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[color=sienna][font=comic sans ms][b][i] Good books make us laugh or cry. In other words effect our emotions. This sounds simple enough, but when you think about it, to be effected by something non existing(fictional) is one of the signs of madness.

However, books are made to leave longer term effects, Some are even written sollely for the purpose of changing people. For example the messages hidden in "Tom Sawyer" or "Pride and prejudice". Then there are other that just succed in effecting people. The most obvious example for this would be the Bible. Millions of people are and were effected by it, people used it to start wars and create peace. Though to someone who thinks that books in the bible are simple fiction, a lot of stuff would look like mass maddnes (wich burning, for example).

Also, writting in first person, usualy this is taken for granted simply as a tool to show it from the point of wiev of main charecter. However a really good writer will use it to make the reader to feel that (s)he is the charecter. But what if the author exceeds the limits of exelence, it's quite possible that a book can create a compleate illiusion, so that reader will be still looking at everything from the charecter's of the book he just read, position. Dave Pelzer's "Child called it" for example, after reading a chapter of it I had to take about a minute to realize that I never had to live in the basement, and that I was in the clasroom (it was PSHRE-free lesson)

Finally the questions themselves. Firstly what books have you found moving, turning you to change your life, or atleast laugh out loud or cry. Then- do you think a book can drive you mad? Is it madness for example if a succesfull sportsman decides to quit his carrier after reading a bible, or just simple proccess of life?[/color][/b][/i][/font]