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Post by Optimism is my Phil-osophy on Jan 8, 2023 5:16:23 GMT -5
If the book interests me enough, I can remember lots and lots of details. I'm amazed at myself how much I can remember ASOUE, and now Frankenstein. I told my father and mother, and my co-workers, and my wife, and on the internet about Frankenstein.
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Post by Reba on Jan 8, 2023 5:37:23 GMT -5
you shouldn't boast to your mother, Mr. Semblance.
it's funny how the memory of books and movies are often opposite-like . . . if i've read the book, i'm sure to remember all the characters, but maybe not much of what happened. while events in movies are quite memorable but i often don't even know the main character's name.
once in grade school i heard some nerds arguing about Lord of the Rings (the book), and i thought i could settle their argument because i had seen all the movies. but they were like "does Globlink kill the Magrork before or after Tholwin arrives at Tindlehorst ?" and i realized i didn't know any names from the story at all.
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Post by Optimism is my Phil-osophy on Jan 8, 2023 6:42:46 GMT -5
Interesting you comment on this, Reba. I can also remember events from movies that really fascinate me well enough, but the names of characters are often forgotten unless they are very prominent protagonists or antagonists with equally distinctive names. Even in animes that I follow for many seasons this happens sometimes. But if the book is really remarkable, I remember both the names of the characters and the events. I keep thinking about ASOUE, and people often ask me what my favorite book is. I didn't remember the names of any of the new characters from book 13, or specific events in TSS when I got here. But I remembered a lot of everything that happened in TMM, for example. And of course, I remembered almost 100% of LSTUA and TBL. I think my memory is very selective with respect to my tastes.
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Post by Tiran O'Saurus on Jan 8, 2023 14:23:36 GMT -5
I didn't remember the names of any of the new characters from book 13, The only ones I ever remember are Ishmael, Friday, and Miranda. I'm not sure anyone remembers all the names, because there are a lot and none of them do anything.
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Post by HAL 10,000 on Jan 19, 2023 11:24:46 GMT -5
I only remember Ishmael. The rest of just kind of a jumbled collection in my memory.
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