Furious and Hooked: What Keeps Us Reading the Books We Actually Hate
Some books make you want to throw them across the room — and then pick them back up. There's a particular kind of reading experience where the anger and the compulsion arrive together, where you're genuinely disturbed or morally at odds with what's on the page but somehow can't bring yourself to stop. Understanding why that happens might tell us more about what fiction actually does to us than any comfortable reading experience ever could.
