Get the picture

Ok, so I was reading the last bit of "C and P" Sunday night (yeah so I procrastinated a little, at least I read it right?) and I noticed the cute little map in the front of the book. I was reading about Svid as he wandered out to the islands and there was a name of a bridge. So, I couldn't help but use that map that I had found in the front of the book to locate the bridge. I found it quite easily (I have some pretty awesome map skills) and then, when seeing where it was placed in relation to other places in the novel, I decided that it was placed incorrectly. 

This is the problem I am having. By placing a map at the start of the book that shows exactly where everything is I feel like it kind of defeated the whole purpose of reading. It is just like reading a book and then seeing the movie. There is nothing worse than having your favorite book be made into a movie, dropping $9 on a ticket to go see it, and then when it starts and the characters and setting are all shown to you in real life it is all wrong. The "all wrong" part is really just opinion, but when you have a picture of a place or character in your head, and then the physical representation of it is not the same it kind of ruins the whole book for you. 

This is what happened when I looked at where the bridge was on the map. It was in the wrong place, but now I can only see it as being where the map said it is (just like it is hard to picture Harry Potter as being anyone but that dude who plays him in the movies). I hope that people are getting this it is a little hard to understand. 

In the end I feel like the whole purpose of reading a book is that you have to take the words and fabricate a visual in your head. Maps in books and movies of books just dissolve that whole place you made in your mind. I am really mad that that map was put in there, but I don't really know who to blame...