Just After Sunset, The Stationary Bike

[intstar]

In the Short story, "The Stationary Bike". Richard Sifkitz says that a Joe Saturn claims;

That when we read a good book we self hypnotise our selfs. in order to watch the story?

I don't know about the rest of you but as a Dyslectic, I am a visual thinker. Which means I think in pictures & I watch the book as I read.

It is only a problem when the book comes out in the movies. I only go to see it if I have not read the book in a number of years. Other wise I'd be disappointed in it. Sometimes when I see the movie first & really enjoy it, I look for the book to see what I missed in the movie. LOL

:alien:

[bopropadop]

I've told others before that when I really get into a good book, I forget that I'm reading and it's more like watching a movie. I tend to remember passages visually as well, "seeing" characters talking to one another. Reading for me is constantly painting a mental picture.

That tends to make the movie adaptation a disappointment. The Mist was the closest a movie ever came to matching my "visual" of the book.

[Ubasti]

I've told others before that when I really get into a good book, I forget that I'm reading and it's more like watching a movie. I tend to remember passages visually as well, "seeing" characters talking to one another. Reading for me is constantly painting a mental picture.

That tends to make the movie adaptation a disappointment. The Mist was the closest a movie ever came to matching my "visual" of the book.

I agree with you, Bop. I always prefer to let my imagination create the scenes and the character rather than go by what a director or consumer has in mind for them.

[crazycrashink]

I often get upset while at movies I have already read the book to, spouting "That's not what so and so looks like at all!!!!!" :biggrin2: I believe the best pictures are the ones the book create in your imagination; allowing everyone to have an individualized, magical experience.

[lil lisey 1127]

Oh my when i read a book i get completely lost in it, i see the characters, their walk their actions, EVERYTHING. I agree totally its like watching a movie half the time i forget Im still reading and things just play out... it really annoys people who try to talk to me cuz im almost in my own little world =)

peace, love, and happy reading

[staropeace]

I get so involved in a book,I almost fall head-first into it.
If I am reading about characters walking through a peasoup fog in old London...........I will look out my window after reading and,for a brief minute,expect to see Whitechapel and a fog enshrowded individual slithering around corners....cape flying.

[gclark]

All of this rings true to an avid reader. what gets me, however, is how some people aren't able to invoke their creative mind when reading a book. My wife doesn't read. has only read 1 novel cover-to-cover since we've been together (almost 11 years) she says she can't get into a book. That is blasphemous to me!!!!! :)

But yes. when you read, you almost transport yourself to their world, feel their pain, and taste their fear. to this day, i can feel my heart racing when something is happening in the book, moreso than when you see it on the big screen. just wish everyone could be like that. I happen to know zero people around me that like to read. Sad isn't it?:sad:

[Perse]

Hi all

Totally agree with everyone on here that a book is an escape to another world. I used to want to punch the guy i used to work with, as on my lunch break (reading) he used to interrupt me for the stupidest of reasons!

Also just the other day when reading Blaze in my car, i was quite a way through (hopefully this is not too much of a spoiler!) and as it was mostly about the guy being chased by cops, i heard a police siren and suddenly had the urge that i had to start the car and speed away as not to get caught :laugh:

Books are brilliant.

[The Outsider]

Yeah, what you guys said. I'm not dyslexic, but when I really get into reading, it starts playing like a movie in my head, and I start to zone out of reality, at least visually. So, I usually hate to go see the movies based on the books I read but I end up going anyways, on the off chance that they live up to my notoriously high standards.

[AnnekoMartian]

One time, I was steeling myself against tears knowing a favourite character was about to die, only to be completely unmoved when the scene played out *completely* unlike the one I had 'seen' reading the book.

All the details were different from what had been written, too, and I felt like it cheapened the whole scene.

Constantly Reading,
Anneko Martian

[Jack Roman]

I usually don't like watching the movie after reading the book because I already have a preconception of what the characters look and sound like. And I usually don't like reading the book after watching the movie, because then its hard to get the movie characters out of my head. When I'm reading a book I like to form my own visual of the characters and environment based off the description from the author. I found also that peoples perception of a character can vary greatly, the whole book for that matter.

[Denise Marsden]

I completely agree with all of the above, no better movies than the ones you play in your head.That is the secret of the Master author, don,t you agree?The ones who provide the words and pictures so that all you have to do is run it through your imagination.I was impressed with the image of people on a road crew sorting out all the stuff you eat, the idea of putting them out of business if you dramatically alter your eating habits just broke me up.I now have extra chocolate at weekend just for my' road crew'.lol

[jayb]

I too see the what I am reading visually, and in that way I am transported into the world i am reading oblivious to everything around me.

When reading "The Long Walk," my legs hurt.

How do my fellow readers deal with this situation - When reading, my girlfriend accusses me of ignoring her....I have no idea what to say to that. Anyone else have that problem?

[JayneH]

I too get so into a book that I forget I am reading.

Was reading JAS last night and actually found myself holding my breath when
he climbed down the toilet hole and fell into the sewage underneath

Any story that can get me gagging and cringing like that gets my vote