Quote:
Originally Posted by The Cod Father
After a while I seem to hear each character as an individual and even to the point where the book itself disappears and there just seems to be a "movie" running in my head .
TCF
|
This is me. My husband doesn't see video, he hears the narrator with no pictures. We both think the other is strange!
But for me, if the book is well written grammar wise, and there are no visual 'speed bumps' to throw me out, I quit seeing the works and see a video of all the action and characters in my head pretty much right off. I've learned to navigate small typos and mistakes pretty easily, but big errors bump me out of video mode and I see the words again.
One of the things that annoys me is when an author doesn't give much in the way of descriptions, so I don't start out with a good visual. I just read a couple of books with two main male characters, and the author described everyone else enough that I could grab a visual and go. But the two main characters only were 1) English 2) brothers 3) mid thirties and 4) one had thinner hair than the other. No hair color, eye color, height, skin tone, build, or anything that would tell me what the other characters saw.
I liked the stories themselves, but the character were pretty blob-like in my head until I finally settled on what they looked like.
The author may have had an idea of what his characters looked like, but he didn't get it across to me! I get frustrated with that. Makes my movie fuzzy.