From: g@crcomp.net   
      
   James Nicoll wrote:   
   > Five Ways to Build a Story Around an Unlikeable Protagonist   
   >   
   > Thoughts on hateable, problematic, and morally bankrupt characters.   
   >   
   > https://reactormag.com/five-ways-to-build-a-story-around-an-un   
   ikeable-protagonist/   
      
   In the crowded marketplace of ideas, artful authors attract an   
   audience's patronage by inculcating a sense of reader superiority into   
   their readership.   
       RAH's reliable narrators arguably act as a baseline. You get what   
   you pay for. Readers foresee what is coming while character   
   comprehension lags a little - it loiters to size up a straightforward   
   situation.   
       Unreliable narrators up the stakes. They require readers to expend   
   extra effort to question the narrative along the way. By the end of a   
   successfully sleuthed story, superiority is enhanced enough to enable   
   escalated euphoria.   
       But unreliable narration can backfire on readers who lack the   
   requisite intelligence or mental discipline to tackle the tale.   
      
   --   
   Don.......My cat's  )\._.,--....,'``.                     veritas    _|_   
   telltale tall tail /,   _.. \   _\  (`._ ,.               liberabit   |   
   tells tall tales.. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'              vos         |   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)