I actually kept track of the amount of time I'd spend reading the harry potter books... I read them all in a little over 145 hours... just over 6 days.

But I could probably manage to read one if I found it interesting. Most of the time I don't. I can't get into the authors head. They say of he had black hair...then what? What does he look like? Oh yeah you're suppose to get your own picture but then they make a movie and he becomes ugly. lol

I personally don't... don't create visualizations for what I read. I don't have vivid fantasy like that. They're just there, I don't try to picture it, except vague outlines. -sigh- I listen to the flow of the language and what feelings it creates in me more than visualization.
Still, when stuff gets turned into movie, it usually becomes fuglier. =o=;

Well, I am an author. Or I want to be one, someday.

Getting into their heads is like... getting into my own head. I find it extremely easy - if the writer is good, like JK Rowling is - to visualize the story and get pulled into the narrative. I had no problem imagining most of the characters the way she wrote, and especially characters like Hagrid, I could usually hear their voices in my head as I read their dialogue. She's an excellent writer. One of the ones that simultaneously made me want to become a writer and made me worried I could never be as good.

I have an active imagination, which is why movies usually never look as good as in my head. XD

We need a form area just to talk about books..
But hey any of you read the Morganville series? I was surprised, it has a fast paced, exciting plot, likable characters (and ones you love to hate, like Monica)..
It's just awesome overall..
Also, the Evernight books, those.. I love but with how book 3 went.. it pissed me off e_e
I don't just like vampires though..
Heir Apparent and the other virtual reality related book by Vivian Vande Velde are.. like amazing.

It's frustrating to me...

Only problem is that she copied even whole lines from old, forgotten stories and tales. X3

I imagine story otherwise. I step in that world without actually seeing it, but I still live with the story, only on different level. My world is made of words, not visuals, though, also the one I create.

Writer's Diary has sub-forum for book discussion,S eth.

I've tried writing, I can think out the whole story in my head, have a complete visualization of it.. But its the filler stuff when I try to write that kills it. I want to get straight to the plot, forget introductions.

Yeees~ :3 *wiggles happily and does the tightpantdance*

...We have an area to talk about books. xD

I only think writing if I can do it however I want. I don't like when teachers put their nose in it or give you a finished plot to follow. I understand they do it cause not everyone have a fantasy but it sucks for those who do.

Yeah, I took a creative writing class in High School, one time the teacher gave us a single line we has to start a story with... 60% of the class wrote boring stuff that wasn't a story... I wrote a murder story.

Uhhuh. I have hard time writing for something preset, too, especially at time limits and in school. Home, yes, I can curse, chomp half of pencil off and finally create something, but writing in school is hellish.
I, actually, make too many fillers, I think. I am trying to get better at writing, though. I write a bit of poetry, or used to, though I don't really call that poetry, nor I consider my self a writer. It's just... kind of hobby. I could never be good enough to be a writer. ._.

I never feel like I can write what I really wanna write in school anyway. It's either too "sexy" or "offensive" to most people. <_<;