I have trouble visualizing people I know when they aren't present
Larry Send a noteboard - 25/11/2011 05:11:38 PM
I read Terry Pratchett's Snuff the other day and it struck me that I find it difficult to picture Pratchett's characters as people who look like us. I suspect it is because of the cover art.
So I thought through other books and the way I picture characters while reading and discovered that I really am dependent on cover art to help me visualise what the characters look like.
I don't have trouble with Wheel of Time characters, or Feist's, or Eddings' - they all look like proper people in my head while I read. But I cannot picture Joe Abercrombie or Scott Lynch's characters as anything but caricatures of human beings.
Is this just me? Sometimes I worry about my brain.
So I thought through other books and the way I picture characters while reading and discovered that I really am dependent on cover art to help me visualise what the characters look like.
I don't have trouble with Wheel of Time characters, or Feist's, or Eddings' - they all look like proper people in my head while I read. But I cannot picture Joe Abercrombie or Scott Lynch's characters as anything but caricatures of human beings.
Is this just me? Sometimes I worry about my brain.
Everything's so vague and blurry for me then, so it's no surprise when the same happens when I read. But I always "hear" them well, both in life and when reading a fiction.
Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie
Je suis méchant.
Je suis méchant.
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