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[nishatalitha]

The saga about Black Knight continues with his flatmate B. receiving a phone call on her work answerphone telling them all to go to hell.

I have a bone to pick with a fanfiction community. Someday I may actually get around to telling them about it.

It just bothers me how some authors use a characters surname when they write from that character's perspective. I've read a couple of books that do this. Point of Hopes, Point of Dreams by someone and Melissa Scott. The Wellington Central Library has them.

My point is that it was really disorientating to read the stories, and then suddenly the men would address each other by their first names rather than their last names, and I wouldn't know who they were talking about.

It's not quite as bad in the fandom that I'm thinking about. Normally it's only one particular character that has this happen to him. Nevertheless, it's still strange.

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[tanizard.livejournal.com]

Have you read 'The Crucible' trilogy by Sara Douglass? Through the majority of the first book, the main character is referred to as 'Neville', but either near the end of the first book, or somewhere early in the second book, it suddenly switches to 'Thomas'. Now, since 'Neville' is a first name as well as a surname, it took me a ridiculously long time to understand who 'Thomas' was, and it also took a while to get back into the flow of the story because I had to adjust to this new name. Not to mention that throughout the second and third book, although 'Thomas' was the predominant name used, he still sometimes thought of himself as 'Neville', and had people occassionally refer to him as 'Neville' as well.

My extremely drawn-out point being that I agree about it being a pain to read. But I didn't mind too much, because I really love that series.