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Local Authors => Dan Wells => Topic started by: thatboymufen on July 19, 2011, 05:59:50 PM

Title: OMG!!! just finished I dont want to kill you
Post by: thatboymufen on July 19, 2011, 05:59:50 PM

OMG OMG OMG!!! Mr. wells i love your books... there amazing!!! When is the next chapter of john cleaver!!! I NEED MORE!!!!

Title: Re: OMG!!! just finished I dont want to kill you
Post by: dhalagirl on July 20, 2011, 02:42:36 AM

I just finished it yesterday and I loved it too.  Though I felt bad for John in the end.

Title: Re: OMG!!! just finished I dont want to kill you
Post by: ryos on July 22, 2011, 10:09:19 AM

You felt bad for John? I felt bad for Brooke.

Title: Re: OMG!!! just finished I dont want to kill you
Post by: dhalagirl on July 26, 2011, 04:59:43 AM

Yeah, what happened to Brooke was terrible, but I still think John suffered the greater loss.  Because of her he got a taste of what it was to be normal and that's not something that I think he's likely to experience again.

Title: Re: OMG!!! just finished I dont want to kill you
Post by: Peter Ahlstrom on July 26, 2011, 04:54:50 PM

I assumed it meant he was cured for good.

Title: Re: OMG!!! just finished I dont want to kill you
Post by: dhalagirl on July 27, 2011, 03:14:50 AM

Quote from: Peter Ahlstrom on July 26, 2011, 04:54:50 PM

I assumed it meant he was cured for good.

That his sociopathy was cured for good?  Hmm...I didn't think that sociopathy was something that could be cured.

Title: Re: OMG!!! just finished I dont want to kill you
Post by: Peter Ahlstrom on July 27, 2011, 07:25:29 PM

They cured one in House, when it was a symptom of a different underlying condition.

I thought the implication in Dan's book was that John's sociopathic tendencies were a result of trauma from his father abandoning him, rather than an incurable genetic condition.

Title: Re: OMG!!! just finished I dont want to kill you
Post by: dhalagirl on July 28, 2011, 03:37:35 AM

I've always thought of it as being like autism in that the brain is unable to communicate with the empathetic part of the brain.  I might be mistaken though.  I haven't studied it.

Title: Re: OMG!!! just finished I dont want to kill you
Post by: Fellfrosch on July 30, 2011, 03:00:46 AM

True sociopathy is a combination of physiology and emotional trauma.

Title: Re: OMG!!! just finished I dont want to kill you
Post by: dhalagirl on July 31, 2011, 04:53:40 AM

Ahh.  So a true sociopath can be treated (for the emotional trauma) but they'll always have those tendencies.  Got it.