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Originally Posted by Chula Vista
Jeez cripes Troll, READ posts better before replying.
It's a lot of characters FOR KOONTZ. I only brought it (and Swan Song) up cause someone mentioned not liking The Stand cause it had too many characters.
You should check out Watchers. Having been through at least a dozen or more of his books, it's his best book by far.
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To be fair, it's not me who needs to read it's you who needs to check what you write. You just presented a list of characters, said they were from his book, and didn't clarify that that was not the standard MO for the writer. Your post reads "wow! Look! This is a lot of characters!" NOT "Wow! Look! This is a lot of characters FOR THIS WRITER!" Besides, if that's the point you're making then you're proving my own point, that that was an exception, and that what I said was correct: normally, he doesn't use a ton of characters in his story. Like I say, in DRotH there are about four main ones. Plenty others come and go, but the only ones you need to keep an eye on are Roy Miro, Spencer Grant, the dog Rocky (though he's always with Grant anyway) and Valerie Keene, who only shows up as an actual character from part two of the book. I never had a problem keeping up with any of his character list in other novels of his. Therefore I'm not sure what point you're trying to make, exactly.
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Originally Posted by SGR
To be clear, it's not that I don't like The Stand for having too many characters, it's because the perspective and narration switches between all those characters every chapter or so. I have no problem with a lot of characters, but when the perspective switches between all of them frequently, it became difficult for me to keep track of things.
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Perspectives and timelines, on the other hand, can be hard to keep straight in your head. It's like, is this now or then? Is this him/her talking or someone talking about him/her talking? If that's not handled correctly it can be very confusing.