On Self inserts

From Dante to Tolstoy to Dan Brown, it seems like self inserts are and old technique with very different results depending of the author.

What are your favorite and most hated self inserts books or characters?

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Heinlein has a few self inserts but Lazarus Long is the funniest because of how far off the deep end he went with the incest stuff in Time Enough For Love.

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