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Stolen from an X (Twitter) post: Which genre do you think ghosts prefer: mystery, thriller, horror, fairytale, or magical realism?What a fun question!
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The answer might depend on your beliefs/philosophy about ghosts themselves and what exactly they are. After all, fiction gives us quite a range of ghosts.
- Some of them are basically the same person they were they were alive, just transparent and unchanging now. In some stories, they don't even know they are dead.
- Some of them are more like an echo of who they once were, trapped in a small moment, reliving it over and over. I'm not sure they can even interact with the world.
- Some of them are malevolent--poltergeists, vengeful spirits, and the like.
I'm thinking that the only types of ghosts who read are that first type: the ones that are still who they always were, just dead now. And for those guys, I bet they read whatever they liked when they were alive. Though it is fun to imagine that, once freed from the limits of the mortal coil, like a need for sleep or to earn money, a ghost could just wander the library reading anything and everything.
Heck! Maybe this is my chance to actually read everything in my TBR!
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Attic books are the best!
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DeleteI guess you'd have plenty of time, you might even be able to do that!
ReplyDeleteOnce can hope!
DeleteGhosts' personalities do not change from when they were alive. Therefore I expect they would read the same genres as they did on the Earth plane.
ReplyDeleteThat's what I tend to think, too.
DeleteI feel so called out by that comic. Lol love it!!
ReplyDeleteTom Gauld is one of my favorites.
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