/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.2896975]

When you're reading a book, do you picture characters as particular actors/models/etc or vague, indistinct faces?
Who is your Dorian Gray, /lit/?

[Anonymous No.2896996]

Neither. I construct a character using my visual imagination and the book that I am reading. Is that not normal for you? Are you unable to construct faces or figures if you haven't seen their replicas in reality?

[Anonymous No.2897012]

[Anonymous No.2897015]

I picture them like anime lolis

[Anonymous No.2897035]

David Bowie plays every role.

[Anonymous No.2897040]

I seem to imagine the author as the main character sometimes, if there's a picture on the book. It doesn't tend to happen if there's not a picture on the book, even of I know what the author looks like.

I hate when you don't get a clear description of a character so you improvise, and say, you imagine they have dark hair. 5 chapters later, "she brushed her blonde hair."

[Anonymous No.2897041]

they're vague and indistinct.


>>2896996
only a preoccupied faggot would employ their imagination like this.

[Mad Scientist Hououin Kyouma !!RBaVX6t0twu No.2897050]

>>2896975

I thought Dorian was supposed to be blond?

[Anonymous No.2897054]

Bazarov, for some reason

[Anonymous No.2897055]

>>2896996
Not OP, but its pretty difficult for me to create a "new" face for the characters in the book. Sometimes they're indistinct and just shadows of ideas doing things, other times they're characters from movies.

[Anonymous No.2897061]

>>2897041
lol I don't understand what you mean by preoccupied in this context, like... what?

I think it is you who is employing their imagination "wrong" :)

[Anonymous No.2897070]

>>2897050
I'm not very far into it, so far all I've got is that he's very young and looks like he's made of porcelain, and Ezra Miller is where my mind went.

[Q !ShamanJNlM No.2897074]

>>2897054
I always envision witching characters as BM musicians. The Kid from Blood Meridian was actually Quorthon in my mind, for instance.
Dorian Grey is also Quorthon. Everybody's Quorthon.

[Anonymous No.2897101]

>>2897074
Not sure why, but there's alway at least one Tobey Maguire character in my books.

[Q !ShamanJNlM No.2897110]

>>2897101
I wonder if everybody has something alike going on.

[Anonymous No.2897112]

>>2897074
>>2897101
I associate older characters with Anthony Hopkins all the time

[Anonymous No.2897117]

>>2897112
My older-man stock face is Liam Neeson, he's my Humbert Humbert.

[Anonymous No.2897121]

>>2897117
Odd considering his character in Taken, even without which he still wouldn't strike me as the child-fiddling type. I just used the guy from the movie

[Anonymous No.2897132]

>>2897121
I still havn't seen 'Taken', I think his voice makes him the perfect narrator/protagonist no matter what.

[Anonymous No.2897136]

Randy Lenz in Infinite Jest is an older Will Forte with a moustache.

[Anonymous No.2897137]

>>2897136

my Randy Lenz

[Anonymous No.2897140]

>>2897137
I'm pretty certain that I've pictured him as Buscemi in Fargo at points too.

[Anonymous No.2897147]

>>2897136
This is the closest I can find to that.

[Q !ShamanJNlM No.2897156]

>>2897112
My old-man character is Clint Eastwood.

>>2897137
Mine's William H. Macy.

[Anonymous No.2897162]

>>2897156
Curiously enough my Kid from Blood Meridian is Clint Eastwood, haha.

[Anonymous No.2897723]

An older woman (like in her 30s or 40s) often resembles either Kim Deal or Tea Leoni in my mind.

Anyone younger is Cat Power, for some reason.

[Anonymous No.2898503]

>>2896975
I imagine vague, indistinct faces. Unless I've seen the film version, then I'll project the respective actors/characters in my mind which is, incidentally, why I prefer reading the book first. Not least because you taint your understanding of the original book's story.

[Anonymous No.2898515]

>>2897035

I'll write this short story later.

[Anonymous No.2898520]

Cillian Murphy is my Nick Carraway

[Anonymous No.2900320]

when i read novelizations of films, the characters are manifested in my mind as their respective actors from the film. If i'm reading something fresh, i usually imagine the characters looks based on people i've seen recently and are still fresh in mind.

[Anonymous No.2900336]

>>2898520

i see him as peter campbell with jew hair

[Anonymous No.2900347]

I think of all film adaptions of novels ever done starring Kiera Knightly and replace her with this beautiful bitch (Romola Garai)