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Which author does the best job at really connecting the reader to the protagonist.
For example I would love to see an example of someone waiting on a court verdict. To where we actually experience the same nervousness and fear when the protagonist does.
But any other really great exampes would be appreciated.
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This is a troublesome topic from the start. The truth is, what works empathically for one reader won't work for another. SO the most important question is what works for *you*? I assume that would be what you wanted to write.
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Yes the question is subjective, but I would like to see who YOU as readers found to be the best at connecting YOU to the protagonist. Posts: 451 | Registered: Dec 2004
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These are the authors who have created the characters I loved the most and/or who took me on the biggest emotional roller coaster ride ever. I hope that's what you're looking for.
Melanie Rawn Janny Wurts Raymond E. Feist Dean Koontz Mary Higgins Clark
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Stephan R Donaldson is very good at creating characters that act like human beings. That's a lot harder than it sounds.
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OSC. In Lost Boys I found myself getting as tense over the possibility of the MC losing his job as if it were me losing my job. No other writer has gotten me to feel that way over such a mundane event, though plenty have produced a similar effect by way of greater hazards.
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James Fenimore Cooper's "Leatherstocking Tales".
I've felt emotions when reading and can easily get caught up in what is happening, but at the end of The Prairie, I bawled my eyes out. Even though I knew it was coming, when Nathaniel died it felt like my best friend had died. I think I cried for at least half an hour. It was so irrational - I knew he was just a fictional character - and still I cried.
I had been reading the series over the course of about four years. In that time it felt like I had developed a sort of relationship with the author and his characters.
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One who has not yet been named was Frank Herbert. Forget his son and that Anderson dude, they aren't doing the Dune universe nor characters any good.
Frank Herbert on the other hand... he was a genius on both storycrafting and character development.
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Definatly Grisham, In <u>The King of Torts</u> I was pretty connected to the main charachter, and the killer in the first felt very developed and real, even though he was not overly developed. ^ ^ Sorry, HTML tags won't work, I tried to fix it, but I'm not getting any luck.
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Of the most recent books I have read, I would have to go with David Webber's Honor Harrington books. Or if you like, the original Horatio Hornblower by C.S. Forester.
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