Do you associate known faces with faceless characters?

Contributor: Tori Rebel Tori Rebel
I caught myself doing this last night. Reading a bit of erotica (although I've been known to do it with non-adult genre fiction as well) and since I had just watched True Blood, a character in the book I was reading became the face and body of Russell from T.B. in my head. Since you can't see the character in a book, I tend to use a face and body I've already seen instead of imagining a whole new body. Anyone else?
08/23/2010
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Contributor: P'Gell P'Gell
No, but I always seem to choose a house I know when I read fiction. I have no idea why. I don't have control over it, I read the book and some house I know or an other becomes the house in the book.

Weird. I have also had a number of people tell me that my own house comes to mind as the Weasly's House in the Harry Potter books. We have a rabbit warren of many little rooms, less than immaculate housekeeping, interesting items all over the place and several levels.

But, I don't usually have faces come to mind when I read. I TRY to, but it usually doesn't happen.
08/23/2010
Contributor: Chilipepper Chilipepper
Sometimes, especially if they have the same name - 'Taking Terri Mueller' comes to mind (YA book). I had a friend at school named Terri whom I kept seeing as the protagonist.

Another is 'Stranger in a Strange Land' (Heinlein); it's ridiculous, but I kept seeing Leo Kern (Rumpole of the Bailey) as Jubal Harshaw.
08/23/2010
Contributor: Gary Gary
Yes. I never really thought about it before this post, but I do associate some image.
08/23/2010
Contributor: deadpoet deadpoet
I do that sometimes
08/23/2010
Contributor: Tori Rebel Tori Rebel
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Originally posted by P'Gell
No, but I always seem to choose a house I know when I read fiction. I have no idea why. I don't have control over it, I read the book and some house I know or an other becomes the house in the book.

Weird. I have also had a number of ... more
I've done that too...and it always seems that, when feasible, I use my childhood best friend's house from when I was growing up, but never somewhere I've actually lived. Odd.
08/24/2010
Contributor: Sinjo Sinjo
I know I've done it, but I can't think of any at the moment.
08/26/2010
Contributor: ~LaUr3n~ ~LaUr3n~
Yea sometimes. I hate when books become movies sometimes because I have certain ideas of what the characters should look like.
08/26/2010
Contributor: DeliciousSurprise DeliciousSurprise
Quote:
Originally posted by ~LaUr3n~
Yea sometimes. I hate when books become movies sometimes because I have certain ideas of what the characters should look like.
I am in complete agreement.

I'm actually usually offended that they've portrayed the characters that way because...
HELLO
That is not how they are meant to look.
08/26/2010
Contributor: Lavender*Moon Lavender*Moon
I do sometimes. It depends on the descriptions given in the book. It's like my mind automatically associates the description with someone I've seen.
09/06/2010