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Well, for me... bobsledai Send a noteboard - 08/07/2010 04:22:13 PM
It's the sheer number of characters introduced that made me ask the question. Most books don't have anywhere close to the number of characters as the WoT.

Of course, it's also the sheer number of characters that made it hard for me to notice that people did have the same name.
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How many non-WoT books have characters with duplicate names? - 08/07/2010 02:35:08 PM 995 Views
Well, for me... - 08/07/2010 04:22:13 PM 630 Views
It's rare in fiction - 08/07/2010 08:39:38 PM 644 Views
Not true. It's rare in genre fiction. *NM* - 09/07/2010 11:30:38 PM 223 Views
If you write stories regularly, you understand the problem - 08/07/2010 09:14:13 PM 867 Views
Re: If you write stories regularly, you understand the problem - 09/07/2010 05:20:04 PM 571 Views
Actually, I never thought "John" and "Jonathan" were different names. - 10/07/2010 12:41:36 AM 559 Views
It's fairly rare - 08/07/2010 09:53:59 PM 630 Views
The Bible would seem to be a good place to research this - 09/07/2010 04:10:32 PM 526 Views
That's cause the Old Testament rocks. *NM* - 09/07/2010 06:14:22 PM 291 Views
There are lots of repeated names in the Old Testament. - 09/07/2010 11:36:40 PM 521 Views
It's fairly common in Russian literature at least. - 09/07/2010 11:35:24 PM 535 Views

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