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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Tom Robbins comes to mind, but he doesn’t self-insert as the protagonist. his protagonists are almost always young working class women, and Tom Robbins inevitably shows up as Dr Chad Free Spirit Thunderpeepee who fricks these women into hippie enlightenment. it sounds extremely r-slurred when i type it out like that lmao but i actually think Another Roadside Attraction and Jitterbug Perfume are two of the most enjoyable books to come out of that whole 1960s-70s west coast literary scene.
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