WaltFrazier wrote:DOT wrote:MrDollarBills wrote:
You'd think so, right? But i've learned that reading comprehension is not a general skill
This is only tangentially related, but it's wild to me every time I remember there are quite a lot of people who can't visualize when reading books
Like, I've always been able to do that, and I don't know if it's a chicken or egg thing, cause I read a lot of books growing up, and I go in and out of reading phases now
Cause my dad can't do it, but I don't know if that's cause he was never read to growing up and never got into the habit, or if he could just never do it and as such had no interest in reading.
It's interesting when I think about books I read and how I pictured them, but then saw a movie version after reading. The movie kind of overrides the previous visual
It depends for me
Like, I read LotR before watching it, and now that's what I see if I ever re-read it. Same for GoT, but I ain't ever going back to that series lol
But for sub-par adaptations like Enders' Game for example, 90% of that I wipe from my memory
It's interesting when it's kind of completely different from the adaptation as well, like I've played the Witcher 2 and 3 multiple times (people keep telling me 1 is good in spite of the jank, but it's just too much for me to overcome), but reading the books, Geralt is completely different. The books are almost written like a Shakespeare play, where characters mostly just soliloquize to the audience, and the words all flow together. I can't picture game Geralt doing that, so it creates somewhat of a dissonance in my mind.
