Now featuring… Bob Saget?
I have a question.
How do you feel when authors include famous people as characters in their works? Does it distract from the story? Do the personas have to match how you think that particular famous person acts?
April 9th, 2009 at 1:44 pm
I guess it depends… are they the central character of the book? Or are they just thrown in there?
I think it's interesting when an author enters another fictional character in the world of the famous and elite. For example, I'm reading the Wood Wife right now, and one of the characters is a famous poet who was friends with real famous poets, like Neruda. It's an interesting concept.
I also don't mind it when an author chooses to make the main character of a book a famous person, but it probably helps when that person isn't alive anymore. Well-researched famous people in books is okay, but poorly researched is distracting. There's a good way and a bad way to do it. That is how I feel. The end :)
April 13th, 2009 at 12:39 pm
I don't normally like famous people as characters, unless the novel is written by an accomplished author, like Louis Bayard. How about you?
April 13th, 2009 at 7:39 pm
I don't normally like famous people as characters, unless the novel is written by an accomplished author, like Louis Bayard. How about you?