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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&amp;#039;Drama" data-source="post: 124415" data-attributes="member: 23">Absolutely. It&#039;s one of those things that seems to just happen naturally for me based on my initial perception of their description, along with their name and the way they speak (though I think it gets to be a little more work as I get older). When the character has appeared in other media, that can be a big influence. Adrian Mole, for instance, always looks like Gian Sammarco, even though I read the first two books before I saw the TV series. What&#039;s odder is that in the later books where he is a single father who drives an Austin Montego, he still looks pretty much the same in my head as when he was thirteen and three quarters. Then there are characters who have appeared in various media looking vastly different. Sometimes I end up with a bit of a composite, but more often than not I settle into one depiction that is closest to how they are in the book. Oh god, yes. By that time the visual is hard wired in and it&#039;s impossible to adjust. I think I&#039;d have to tune that out for my own sanity, just as I would a typo.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 124415, member: 23"] Absolutely. It's one of those things that seems to just happen naturally for me based on my initial perception of their description, along with their name and the way they speak (though I think it gets to be a little more work as I get older). When the character has appeared in other media, that can be a big influence. Adrian Mole, for instance, always looks like Gian Sammarco, even though I read the first two books before I saw the TV series. What's odder is that in the later books where he is a single father who drives an Austin Montego, he still looks pretty much the same in my head as when he was thirteen and three quarters. Then there are characters who have appeared in various media looking vastly different. Sometimes I end up with a bit of a composite, but more often than not I settle into one depiction that is closest to how they are in the book. Oh god, yes. By that time the visual is hard wired in and it's impossible to adjust. I think I'd have to tune that out for my own sanity, just as I would a typo. [/QUOTE]

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