Book Discussion

demisexualmerrill:

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tohjofalls:

bookcub:

Have you ever read a book where the main character, or a major character, has the same name as you? (any character, really)

My name isn’t really common, in fact I’ve never met anyone with the same name as me. I remember picking up so many books and seeing a variation of name and being like “why couldn’t it be this version :(”. Finally guess what? I pick a book up where the main character of this story basically has inappropriate fantasies of a character with the same name as me. 🙂 it made me so uncomfortable I put the book down and haven’t read it. Hell, I pick up a collection of the novels from that same author and am so glad that novel wasn’t in the collection.

Better to have no characters with the same name as you than characters who have creepy things happen to them. 

I’ve got an Indian name, so nothing in western fiction, though tbh I’m yet to find any Indian fiction with a protagonist with my name either…

I have a really common name.

Lemme tell ya, it is not pleasant when you like crime shows (Criminal Minds, etc) and the victim has your name and hair color.