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 Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2006 11:41 pm
Have you ever noticed a particular author having a little something that happens in almost every book? Some constant that makes it clear that it's something within themselves that they are sharing. For example Jennifer Crusie almost always has a dog in her books that is the turning point in the main character's life. What are some of your prefered author's constants?
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Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 10:22 am
You know, I've never really thought about these patterns before. Then again there are few authors that I tend to read more than one or two books from too.
One thing that does come to mind is Stephen King's writings. When I was heavily into reading his novels, I noticed how there were things which would tie into his longer epic of The Dark Tower. I thought that was interesting.
Emmuska Orczy's Scarlet Pimpernel series tends to have a pair of young lovers in many of the books, and they do affect the plot of that particular adventure to a certain extent rather than just being there as filler material to contrast the horrors of the French Revolution. Armand's love for his lady endangers Sir Percy's life for example!
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Posted: Sun Jun 11, 2006 11:09 am
I always thought the fact that Anne McCafferey included a character named Johnny Greene (named for a deceased friend of hers I believe. I'm not sure I got the name correct) in several of her books. I'll have to stop and think of some more as none come to mind at the moment.
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Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2006 9:54 am
In Stephen King he uses the last name, "Loveless, or BreedLove, or something like that for some minor characters.
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Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2006 10:35 am
Iris Johansen's formula generally involves a heroine who is forced to be protected by a scoundrel Han-Solo type "bad" boy who's a good guy. And the heroine always hates him in the beginning, but loves him by the end.
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Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 6:40 am
In Laurell K Hamilton's books,
the main character is always short.
xD
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Posted: Sun Jun 25, 2006 7:13 pm
Meg Cabot's books 1800-where-are-you and All American girl are annoyingly alike at the beggining.
Very annoyingly.
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Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 1:14 pm
Alienarose Iris Johansen's formula generally involves a heroine who is forced to be protected by a scoundrel Han-Solo type "bad" boy who's a good guy. And the heroine always hates him in the beginning, but loves him by the end. Sounds more like a standard romance formula.
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Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 2:19 pm
いくよ もういいかい まだだよI don't know how important this is, but John Green seems to like making lists in his books. (My friend was telling me how John Green and I are alike, and she pointed this fact out.) “I’m coming, are you ready? Ready or not!”
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Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 3:28 pm
Stephen King (yes, him again) sets a lot of his books in Maine. I haven't read them all so I don't know if they are all set there, but a lot are. A lot of authors set their books in their home town/state/country.
Anne Rice always puts a little historical fiction in her books, another reason why I love her. She also likes to set them in New Orleans like The Vampire Chronicals always come back to New Orleans no matter where they've been. The Witching Hour is set in New Orleans as well.
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Supernatural Manifestation
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Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 7:27 am
well there is David Eddings all his books are almost the same they are hunting for a blue stone and telling the same jokes and it's is the same persons but with different names. The only one that I can think of that isn't about this is Regina's song but it is about twins Eddings seem to like twins they often appear
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Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 12:31 pm
I'm starting to notice patterns in books now, too. Last semester, my literature class had to read a ton of things by Edith Warton. I noticed that her books end the same way they begin, an example of which being in Summer where the main character starts and ends the book on her front porch. I brought it up in class, and my professor said Wharton had a love for all things symmetrical, which would include endings and beginnings being the same. Since most authors draw on their own lives in writing, maybe their habits and characteristics all end up in their books as patterns.
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Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 7:08 pm
Brian Jaques really does tend to have the same kind of formula- at least in his Redwall series. But thats what makes it so fun- you know the good guys are gonna win, you just want to see how. Plus his villians are, in my opinion, truly awesome.
In the Abhorson Trilogy, Shade's Children, Keys to the Kingdom, and in the Seventh Tower, I've noticed that Garth Nix has a real perchance for creatures that are almost human but not. They're warped in some subtly, or bluntly, horrifying way. Whether it be undead whose bodies are changed from rot, decay, and dark magic, the Overlord's creatures built from the flesh, bone, and mind of humans, or the Denizens of the House, every novel I've read of his tends to be marked with this.
Terry Pratchett tends to have similar themes throughout his novels, too- characters whose very personality rebels against that which is set before them; vampires who have sworn off blood, trolls who are more than just a stony exterior, and dwarves who are more than just short, drunk, and scottish (that's the Nac Mac Feegle all the way!). Plus he tends to almost always whip out the ole multiverse theory.
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Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 1:15 am
Jiggery Pokery Stephen King (yes, him again) sets a lot of his books in Maine. I haven't read them all so I don't know if they are all set there, but a lot are. A lot of authors set their books in their home town/state/country.
A lot of his characters happen to be writers or something a long that line, or at least the books that I read involved them. Such as Bag of Bones, Desperation and a collection of short stories I own by him.
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Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 8:27 am
Well, I have noticed that the Norwegian writer Per Nilsson uses his own name or a varietion of it in all of his books. For example, the main character in the book You & You & You is called Nils Persson.
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