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| Edit | Post #36954 | Initial revision | — | about 5 years ago |
| Edit | Post #36258 | Initial revision | — | about 5 years ago |
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A: Can a successful book series let the bad guy win? Yes. A sterling example is the "Parker" series of books by Donald Westlake, written under the pen name Ricard Stark. Parker is a "bad guy" but the protagonist of the series, and always wins in the end, usually against the odds. These books challenge the notion of what a "bad guy" is, which is what y... (more) |
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A: Can non-English-speaking characters use wordplay specific to English? A speaker of a foreign language can create a pun, or some sort of oddly constructed phrase in the reader's language by mistake. In Phillip K. Dick's novel, "The Man in the High Castle," a Japanese character, Mr. Tagomi, says, "Fleece-seeking cortical response." It takes another character a second to... (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |