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 going on. It’s the worst when characters know more about what’s going on than I do. I feel left out. I find books way more enjoyable when I know what's happening from the beginning. The only exception to not knowing much until the end of the book is when I am learning new information along with the characters because then, I am not the only one in the dark. Currently I am reading an exception—Never Let Me Go. I am not that far into the book, but so far I don’t know much of anything. However, neither do the characters. I am gaining information along with them, and they question the same things I do. This is the only way I accept receiving all the details before the big picture.