Tbh I don't remember more than 2 character names per story. If a chapter contains more than two actors then I am totally confused who those persons were and their relationships and such...
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Have fun with "War and Peace". Sooo many characters and everyone is some kind of Count or Lord with partly similar family names. Many of them also have a Russian and a French name and switch between them depending on context. I listened to the whole thing as audiobook and it basically took me the whole first book (of 4) to get a vague understanding of the characters. Listening helped a little bit because the reader had a slightly different intonation depending on which character was speaking.
Great story, probably best experienced in a series instead of in the book lol.
This is why I greatly appreciated how in This Is How You Lose the Time War, there are only two characters that matter and their names are Red and Blue
I read that book. I don't remember a single thing about it.
I still recommend it, albeit begrudgingly, to people who might like it. I think it was better than I received it. Maybe I shouldn't have just listened to the audiobook, but rather, read it at my own pace and re-read certain paragraphs, rather than having them read to me one after the other. Because there was something more in that text. Some books are better in audio, and some are better in text. I can't imagine an audiobook exists of House of Leaves, but it wouldn't surprise me. So, maybe one day I'll go back and actually read This is How You Lose the Time War, because it probably deserved more attention paid to it, and it probably deserves a second look.
Thats why I dont like Game of thrones
Wasn't it a donkey? I think it was named Rocinante? Idk, I read it like 16 years ago.
Edit post-Wikipedia: it was a workhorse, not a donkey, but I nailed the name. I've wondered in the past if Geralt's horse Roach in The Witcher was a nod to Rocinante
I for some reason thought Don Quixote rode a donkey too... Where'd that come from?
Kind of, maybe? But probably not.
In the original, Geralt's horse's name is "Płotka" - has technically the same meaning as Roach (a small, cheap kind of fish), but the term is also sometimes used for easy, inconsequential and irrelevant things.
Good to know! It'd be a cool reference, but I guess it wouldn't really fit with Geralt's character. He's pretty far off from Don Quixote XD
Are we supposed to say "ask me a harder question" in this situation?
Horsey McHorseface
Is this not a trick question?
Maybe I'm mistaken but didn't he ride a donkey not a horse?
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I watched an entire movie once where they didn't give protagonist a name. Realized about a week later in shower and had to look up to confirm.
Tenet?
Fight Club?
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