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Local Authors => Dan Wells => Topic started by: thatboymufen on July 19, 2011, 05:59:50 PM
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OMG OMG OMG!!! Mr. wells i love your books... there amazing!!! When is the next chapter of john cleaver!!! I NEED MORE!!!!
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I just finished it yesterday and I loved it too. Though I felt bad for John in the end.
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You felt bad for John? I felt bad for Brooke.
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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.
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I assumed it meant he was cured for good.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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True sociopathy is a combination of physiology and emotional trauma.
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Ahh. So a true sociopath can be treated (for the emotional trauma) but they'll always have those tendencies. Got it.