Author: Stella PalmerPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
All of us have an idealized vision of ourselves, we see ourselves in a beautiful place. Often, we identify with a particular superhero or a fictional animal, and try to absorb their strengths and good qualities. Our aura, our spirit, everything shifts to match theirs. Truth might be stranger than fiction, but fictional characters are much more interesting than characters in real life. They are special because we identify with many of them, and because they possess skills and powers that are many orders of magnitude greater than any we can command in our daily lives. If you are someone who loves stories, and who likes stories in different forms, this book was made for you. Every story has a hero, and every story has a villain. You will meet thousands of these important characters in the forthcoming pages, and you will remember the happy days when you met all of them for the first time! Fictional personalities are very popular for many different reasons. We often see ourselves in these powerful characters, and they act as an ideal version of what we would like to be in our own lives. This book celebrates every character that we have ever fallen in love with on the silver screen, on the small screen, or within the worlds conjured up by a novel. It's not just movies, books, and TV shows any more: as games become more and more cinematic, they are starting to tell rich and multi-layered stories, and create characters that diverse audiences identify with like never before. A simple plumber now shares his world with fully 3D people and animals and objects that are each more interesting than the other. Mythology is also an important source of the fictional characters to whom this book pays loving tribute. From the Greek Gods whose adventures thrilled us when we were little, to Norse Gods, to gods from African and American mythology, the ancient deities feature heavily in these pages! The trivia questions in this book are easy to understand, but difficult to master. I will ease you in - the first few chapters contain trivia snippets and puzzles that are relatively easy, but I will ratchet up the difficulty level steadily, till the last few chapters have you learning about many new characters whom you never knew existed! And let's not forget about books. Since the invention of printing several centuries ago, hundreds of millions of books have been written, and many of them have left behind characters that live on in our minds, hearts, and souls long after their creator left the mortal world. Books - and literature - are often the source of the richest portrayals of men, women, and animals, and become the nuclei of extended universes in other forms of media. There are also quirky characters from the worlds of advertising and sports and country mascots: everything fictional can be found in this book, and you will love them all! You will be entertained!
