Post by account_disabled on Feb 20, 2018 2:14:07 GMT -6
Hi,
I suppose this mostly applies to fiction and biographies and not always to non-fiction information books depending on their subject, but anyway! I've been thinking lately and I thought it might be nice to talk about this (I couldn't find a topic similar to this, but it's possible I didn't use the right search terms). When you read a book (see first line of this post), do you imagine it in your head? Like, if you read a story with characters, do you imagine the characters talking to each other? How much detail do you usually envision? Is what you imagine in your head always matching with what's in the book? Sometimes certain details about ie. a character's look are not revealed until a bit into the book. Are you able to adjust your 'picture'? Note: when I say 'reading a book' that includes audiobooks. If you see a movie or TV show based on a book, do the characters look like the way you imagined them?
For me, the picture is not terribly detailed. This is wholly personal, but partly because of my autism I recognise faces mostly by people's hair colour and hair style (including facial hair like beards) and skin tone. When I imagine characters from a book I always imagine their hair (and facial hair if they have any), but the rest of the person is sometimes more of a 'faceless black blob' than anything else (I do take heights into account if they are mentioned). I cannot do the face in exact detail. It annoys me when a main character's hair colour or style is not revealed until a long time into the book. By that time, I am no longer able to adjust the 'picture' in my head even if it's not fitting the book.
Please help.
Thanks!
I didn't find the right solution from the Internet.
References:
www.bookclubforugfdghm.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/15293-imagining-books-in-your-head/
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I suppose this mostly applies to fiction and biographies and not always to non-fiction information books depending on their subject, but anyway! I've been thinking lately and I thought it might be nice to talk about this (I couldn't find a topic similar to this, but it's possible I didn't use the right search terms). When you read a book (see first line of this post), do you imagine it in your head? Like, if you read a story with characters, do you imagine the characters talking to each other? How much detail do you usually envision? Is what you imagine in your head always matching with what's in the book? Sometimes certain details about ie. a character's look are not revealed until a bit into the book. Are you able to adjust your 'picture'? Note: when I say 'reading a book' that includes audiobooks. If you see a movie or TV show based on a book, do the characters look like the way you imagined them?
For me, the picture is not terribly detailed. This is wholly personal, but partly because of my autism I recognise faces mostly by people's hair colour and hair style (including facial hair like beards) and skin tone. When I imagine characters from a book I always imagine their hair (and facial hair if they have any), but the rest of the person is sometimes more of a 'faceless black blob' than anything else (I do take heights into account if they are mentioned). I cannot do the face in exact detail. It annoys me when a main character's hair colour or style is not revealed until a long time into the book. By that time, I am no longer able to adjust the 'picture' in my head even if it's not fitting the book.
Please help.
Thanks!
I didn't find the right solution from the Internet.
References:
www.bookclubforugfdghm.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/15293-imagining-books-in-your-head/
animated sales videos