why does everything about me change when i read a book? (sometimes.)?

[I love you .]

does this happen to you, or everyone?

take now for instance
i'm reading 'the perks of being a wallflower' by stephen chbosky
i love it so much
but i'm changing
i'm becoming withdrawn
and i think about things a little more
(the boy in the story is like this)
why does this happen ? is it because i want to be like the character?

a month ago i read the book 'crank' by ellen hopkins
and became sort of like the girl in that story ..

help me?

 

[Lex]

The only non religious book that really changed me was Thomas Payne's "Common Sense". It made me go from being a conservative sympathetic to the republican party's cause, to a Federalist sympathetic to the Constitutional party. Weird, huh?

 

[leaa.]

Whenever i read Stephen King stuff, i become mega paranoid.

It's not the horror and gore ones that gets me, it's how humans react when put under extreme pressure, that's what scares me..