That's a little bit strange question, but i want to know answers of people from any place of world, and that's forum is ideal for this question, i hope. So, the question is simple, what do you feel when you are reading a book? Do you read a just letters, or may be you imagine the acts from the book? Do you imagine how the main hero looks? Do you imagine a nature is decribed by author? And so on. Please be honest, It's very interesting for me.
Depends on the book. With most books I suppose it is a combination of things and with some books it is the language itself that will capture my fancy.
Thanks for the answer, of course, i mean an fiction, not technical books. For example, when you are reading Conan Coyle Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, do you imagine how Mr. Holmes looks? Or others heroes?
When I read I think I construct mental images of characters and situations and places. It helps if the author is descriptive of place and situation but for the most part I don't need much physical description of characters themselves.
Still depends on the book and the genre. When I read things like Dickens or Twain, I can get engrossed in the language itself. My preference is that a writer not go into too much detail of the setting trying to force too many specific images into the readers' minds eye. With mysteries, for instance, I do not do a lot of visualization when reading, or at least not nearly as much as I do with period works.
Tired? Frustrated? Angry? It depends a lot on the book, but these days I'm mostly reading various history, and my personal pet peeve is deliberately twisting the truth. Some authors (or artists, it happens much more often and drastically in movies) change history to suit an agenda, or deliberately overemphasize and downplay certain facts so as to make an absurd argument barely seem believable (assuming you don't see their twisting and writhing). History should be about the truth. One of the biggest historical inaccuracies in recent years that is taken for gospel truth is that Crusades movie, Kingdom of Heaven. They totally botched history and changed things around to fit a narrative they wanted to tell. That warmongering king? In reality he was actually peaceful and wanted to negotiate a peace, but his hands kept getting tied by the Grand Masters of the Orders. The Orders were the military backbone of the Frankish armies in Outremer, and when one charged despite orders from the king not to, his order followed, and then all the knights - and it was a tremendous victory for the Crusaders, and the enemy were routed. The warmongering Grand Masters then wanted to push on and pursue the routed Muslim army, and Guy wanted to pull back, but Guy knew that if his forces were split they were doomed, and so the King was bound to the will of the warrior monks. Oh, and Saladin wasn't a nice guy. He didn't let everyone in the city of Jerusalem go, like the movie said. He let anyone that paid a heavy ransom (I think it was like 100 gold pieces) to go, a ransom which almost no one could afford. The rest, even women and children, were enslaved. THAT is the real Saladin, a man who showed no mercy to the Christian holy orders and executed any one of them captured. But the real Saladin doesn't fit the narrative that they wanted to tell. They wanted a really nice, reasonable, and heroic face of Islam. That kind of stuff just kills me.
They scare the (*)(*)(*)(*) out of me every time. Just when you think its safe to go back to reading.... BAM! the pop ups are still leaping at your face. This one is the scariest mother(*)(*)(*)(*)ing book EVER..... [video=youtube;CLTCbzasLuE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLTCbzasLuE[/video]
I can't wait to finish it. I have this compulsive habit of always flicking to the end page, seeing how far I have to go when I already know.
Not sure of my "feelings" but first I like comical writers on any subject, they will make me chuckle under my breath. I like autobiographies or biographies because I find other's lives interesting. I once read a non-fiction book about a few sailors who escaped from a sunken submarine. It made me cry when I read what they endured.
