Oh, who doesn't have huge holes somewhere in their reading? I've never read War and Peace either--the Russians are, in general, my biggest personal reading gap. I also haven't read Anna Karenina, The Brothers Karamazov, anything by Gogol...
Nor have I read Wolf Hall, but apparently I should as you're the third person to mention it to me in the past few weeks. I recently "finished" a story I've been working on that features a few real people as characters, and it made me terribly nervous. And in my story, all of the real people were just minor characters alongside the fictional main characters, yet I was still paralyzed by the thought of getting them wrong. I don't know that I could ever include a historical figure as a central character in anything I write.
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Date: 2011-01-20 02:29 pm (UTC)Nor have I read Wolf Hall, but apparently I should as you're the third person to mention it to me in the past few weeks. I recently "finished" a story I've been working on that features a few real people as characters, and it made me terribly nervous. And in my story, all of the real people were just minor characters alongside the fictional main characters, yet I was still paralyzed by the thought of getting them wrong. I don't know that I could ever include a historical figure as a central character in anything I write.