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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Confederacy :marseysaluteconfederacy: of Dunces is essentially a self insert

Conan the Barbarian is allegedly a self insert because Howard got called a strag virgin :marseymoidmoment: so much with Dark Agnes de Chastillon being based :marseychadyes: on the school :marseydylan: teacher :marseytuckermilkers: he dated and when they broke up he shelved the unfinished second :marseygunnut: book

The Blind :marseyblind: Owl is a self insert and is very good

In Search :marseyprostateexam: of Lost Time is essentially autobiographical

Self inserts are preferable to proxies given that sufficient sincerity is present, otherwise it comes across as shallow and self aggrandizing. Best to have your self insert novel :marseyreading: be your suicide :marseysadgun: note or obscured enough :marseyitsallsotiresome: that people don't know that your talking about yourself.

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Best to have your self insert novel :marseyreading: be your suicide :marseysadgun: note

So No Longer Human is the peak of self-insertion?

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Yes.

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Slaughterhouse-Five has three self-inserts :confused2:

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