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Originally Posted by Xanthe
It absolutely drives me crazy when an author will populate a book with characters that all have easily-pronounceable Anglo-Saxon names. That lack of imagination by the author always induces an eye-roll on my part, speaking as a person whose surname causes strong men to weep when attempting pronunciation. It always makes me think that if they don't have the imagination to create a unique character, how can they create a unique story?
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That's one thing Piers Anthony is good about. He even finds interesting names for his imagined countries. He got the name Xanth by taking the e off of Xanthe for example. And Michael Ende came up with some interesting ones in his book, 'The Neverending Story."
