Why this fascination for depressing stories lately?

[LWolf]

17. I think that,

when you have been slogging along through a gray, troubled world, and you see the people in that world around you accepting it, acting as if it were normal, as if it were GOOD, and RIGHT, and you feel isolated and cut off, and you wonder if you should just close all your senses and join them, and maybe feel lighter if you pretended it was all good...

when you read something that indicates that you are not alone, not the only one who sees the world that you see, it actually lifts you up. You're no longer cut off. There are others you can reach out to. And...it shines a light on the world that others seem so blind to. The part of me that believes people have to wake up and acknowledge the ill health in order to address it, WANTS that light to shine on the rot.

That's just me, speaking from the places that I've been, and my own reaction to those kinds of stories.

I've been left cold by other books that people have raved about...probably because I didn't relate. It didn't touch me where I live. That doesn't mean that those weren't valuable for others, reaching out to them through the place they are, or a place they have been.

I also love to read uplifting, positive stories, where might doesn't make right, where good wins out over evil, where people grow into happy endings.

I think they both have their place.