Books where the characters always surprise you

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I'm reading the Half-Brother by Lars Saabye Christensen and what I love most about it is that I can never guess what the characters are going to do. And I love that b/c a lot of the time in books and movies you can guess fairly accurately. Very suspenseful and exciting this one is.

Any others out there?

― PeanutDuck (PeanutDuck), Sunday, 6 June 2004 01:02 (twenty-two years ago)

I found Haruki Murakami's Wind-Up Bird Chronicle to be the same way. A surreal, consistently surprising book - despite the otherworldliness, Murakami always keeps one foot firmly planted in the Chandler/Hammett domain of storytelling tension.

― David Elinsky (David Elinsky), Sunday, 6 June 2004 02:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Hmm...that makes only two. And I already knew Murakami. Not very helpful. I was hoping other people recommendations too... (not that I didn't appreciate yours!)

sadness

― PeanutDuck (PeanutDuck), Sunday, 13 June 2004 01:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Um, I can offer John Burnside. The characters in The Mercy Boys were amazingly convincing, because they were (sometimes shockingly) unpredictable.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Charles Dickens' books' characters always surprise me by how monotonous they can get.

― Fred (Fred), Monday, 14 June 2004 18:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Charles Dickens' books' characters' monotonousness always surprises meZzz...

― Fred (Fred), Monday, 14 June 2004 19:09 (twenty-two years ago)

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