Many of the books I read employ an unreliable narrator according to Amazon reviews. Wouldn't it be better for the authors to use a reliable narrator so to achieve a reliable narration?
Unreliable Narrator
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It would, if they are still alive to pick them. Not sure how reliable seance is.
Nope. Misdirection and red herrings can make fiction great.
How do we know if the narrator is actually unreliable if we never walked in their shoes or slippers?
I would recommend plugs. Toupees are a bit sketchy at best.
When you talk to your barber or even your doctor, you realize that they speak from a point of view. With the doctor, you hope he's reliable about medicine, but if he tells you about his wife or his parrot, he made be shading the tale, and that is because he or she is human. Hence, when fiction writers portray characters, they assume they have human frailties and skew their comments and reporting in a personal way, the way people do. So it is not fictional characters that are per se unreliable, but it is a feature of the human mind and being. It's not that we can't handle the truth (Jack Nicholson) but that we handle it quite a bit in what we think is our self interest.
You have the habit of making things very clear but not without color.
We've become so use to being lied to that now we expect lies to presented as casual entertainment. Still, it would be hard to top Ford Maddox Ford's The Good Soldier.
I try to be reliable in my work, my pipe smoking and in the things which I say.
Well, when you read (to yourself) no one else is speaking, so the narrator is in your head (which in your case has no hair on it), so I’m suggesting plugs to possibly help change the narrators voice.
Quite simple, really.
I listen to audiobooks all the time while driving and I use the “sample” feature to try out the narrator. The narration of some books is simply dreadful. It makes me wonder how it got out of production
My top narrators are, in no particular order, Scott Brick, Edward Herrmann, Arthur Morey, Michael Pritchard, Don Hagen and Jon Lindstrom.
My top narrators are, in no particular order, Scott Brick, Edward Herrmann, Arthur Morey, Michael Pritchard, Don Hagen and Jon Lindstrom.
How do you know if the logarithms Amazon uses are reliable, or for that matter, how reliable is Amazon? Maybe Amazon is an unreliable narrator. Of the many things I've learned during my decades long journey through the digital revolution is that while digital is powerful, reliable it is not.
It's funny that you replied. I was reading Tom Sawyer reviews on Amazon and two people said Tom Sawyer is an unreliable narrator.
You know at the end of the book. (Girl on The Train, etc.)
Unreliable narrator - Wikipedia
The new Netflix movie, with Amy Adams is a good example in film. (Woman in The Window) It was OK, but seemed like a rip-off of Hitchcocks "Rear Window" to me.
I just saw a movie recently that goes into the “unreliable narrator” but I can’t for the life of me recall what the movie was. Anyone know what movie/show I may be thinking of?
*Edit - The Woman in the Window.
*Edit - The Woman in the Window.
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