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the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:

--- Quote from: Dom on February 25, 2008, 11:43:00 PM ---I'm just wondering if I'm unique in this.  I always consider the first POV character I meet in a series to be more..."alpha", or "better", or "THE main character".

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How do you react to something with a prologue or opening chapter from one POV that sets that character up and then goes into other POVs for the main story ?

Me, it depends on how much space they are getting in the story and how important their stuff is to the overall plot.  Lots of twiddling around on side issues can get annoying, but lots of shapes of stories do not have a single main character; the In Conquest Born shape where you have a major war between two very different civilisations and one major POV character on each side, for example.

Cyclone Jack:

Depends entirely on how interesting/engaging I find the other characters.

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