Date: 2009-02-02 07:26 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Another aspect of this - you tend to notice the the special color of someone's eyes when you care about them. A lover, a good friend, someone you admire - their eyes might be amber, silver or emerald colored or blue streaked with gold. A casual acquaintance might not remember the color of their eyes.

I want to care about characters in the books I read. If it helps that the authors describe them in a way that means "you found this person interesting" - great! If good descriptions help readers think of this person as more interesting, or suggest something about their character, great!

If I don't care about the characters, I stop reading the book(s). No matter how expert the author, no matter how good their previous works might have been. No matter if I've already bought the 3rd book in the series - I've had two recent cases where I realized 10 pages into the 3rd book that I really didn't care to read the rest. For one, I checked the ending, then dropped it at the library. For the other, I just got rid of it and its predecessors.

B. O'Brien
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