[ SECRET POST #3789 ]

[case]

⌈ Secret Post #3789 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[The White Princess]



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04. [SPOILERS for Guardians of the Galaxy 2]



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05. [SPOILERS for The Sexy Brutale]



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06. [SPOILERS for Samurai Jack]



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07. [SPOILERS for Bates Motel]



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08. [WARNING for acrotomophilia, bestiality]


















Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 00 secrets from Secret Submission Post #542.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Unreliable narrators

[(Anonymous)]

I love unreliable narrators. Who are your favorites?

There will probably be spoilers ahead since this is often a twist.

Re: Unreliable narrators

[case]

All the Agatha Christie ones!

Re: Unreliable narrators

[(Anonymous)]

+1
Unreliable narrators work wonders in detective stories.

Re: Unreliable narrators

[(Anonymous)]

Charles Kinbote in Nabokov's Pale Fire.

Re: Unreliable narrators

[(Anonymous)]

Same as for the favorite fictional coward thread.

Ciaphas Cain. Is he a modest hero, a filthy coward, something worse, nobody knows. Not even Ciaphas Cain knows what sort of narrator Ciaphas Cain is.

Re: Unreliable narrators

[sarillia]

My favorite is a book by Vladimir Nabokov called Despair. I don't know if anyone here is interested in reading it, but here's a spoiler warning for the following paragraph just in case.

The main character hatches a plan to fake his death when he comes across a man who looks just like him. He kills him and switches clothes and identification with him and then runs away to start a new life. Then it turns out that this person didn't look like him at all and the newspapers are writing about this crazy person who tried to pull off this absurd plan that made no sense.

Re: Unreliable narrators

[thewakokid]

Arsene Lupin.

Dunno if he's my all time fav, but its what came to mind first

Re: Unreliable narrators

[(Anonymous)]

*copy-pastes Gene Wolfe's entire bibliography*

In all seriousness, though, it's probably Severian in BotNS

Re: Unreliable narrators

[kaijinscendre]

Lee Pace in The Fall and Guy Pierce in Memento. Atonement (I've only seen the movie but the book is the same). All the characters in The Babadook.

John Dies At The End.
House of Leaves.

The podcast The Magnus Archives has an increasingly unreliable narrator.

Re: Unreliable narrators

[thewakokid]

Oh, I don't know if this counts, but Scott Shelby from heavy rain fucked my brain.

Re: Unreliable narrators

[thewakokid]

Shit, how did I forget Varric!

Re: Unreliable narrators

[(Anonymous)]

Go away

Re: Unreliable narrators

[(Anonymous)]

How very retro

Wako @ Work

Re: Unreliable narrators

[otakugal15]

Harry Potter

Re: Unreliable narrators

[feotakahari]

Let's go old-school: The Tell-Tale Heart. http://www.poemuseum.org/the-tell-tale-heart

Re: Unreliable narrators

[bur]

Yuri in Cagebird by Karin Lowachee. It's first person, and he's always spinning his actions and circumstances into the best possible light for his "audience", but the second you step back and look at the events taking out his spin he becomes an awful person committing unjustifiable crimes. Another character near the end who's been in similar circumstances even calls him out on his denial, and it blows right over him.

Re: Unreliable narrators

[(Anonymous)]

Character Bret Easton Ellis in the book "Lunar Park" by the author Bret Easton Ellis. Where the writer ends and the character begins, I still don't know.

Re: Unreliable narrators

[(Anonymous)]

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides is either an absolutely phenomenal example of unreliable narrator(s), or else it's just a flaming pile of shit. I personally read the narrator(s) as profoundly unreliable in a way that makes me feel violently disgusted by them. However, going by almost every review of the book I've seen, very few people view the story the same way I do. So maybe it's just a flaming pile of shit. (It's extremely rare for me to condemn a book so harshly, for the record. But this book, for me, is literally love or hate, depending on how I interpret it/the author's intentions.)