Big Picture Person
I am a big picture followed by the details type of person. If someone starts with the tiny details first without telling the main point of the story, they’ll lose me. I know they do it to build suspense, but I just can’t do it. Almost immediately my mind wanders, and I start thinking about anything else. I may appear to be listening as my eyes are normally focused on theirs or relatively close to them, but really, I have found something more interesting to focus on like the people just behind their head or the way the freckles on their face form shapes. The same goes for books. I can’t stand novels that don’t provide important information about what is happening until the end. For example, I read Oryx and Crake for summer reading, and I disliked that book more than 1984 and that’s saying a lot. The whole novel I had no idea what happened to half the characters and why certain events took place. It wasn’t until probably the last five chapters that I finally had some sense of what was...