I think my next book will have this theme and I am interested in reading others that are similar. Would love your help...
2006-12-21 15:39:44 · 4 answers · asked by conda 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Matthew Riley's "Area 7"
And lucky the main character "Scarecrow" was the right person in the wrong place too!
An action packed yarn.
Many of Steven King and Dean Koontz books have a lead character who is just an ordinary Joe who gets thrown into weird, dangerous or supernatural circumstances.
Eventually they find inner strengths and abilities that make them the right person.
2006-12-21 16:02:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 12⤊ 16⤋
don't shoot me for pointing this out, but aren't all stories based on this theme? Would Dorian Gray have ended up so wretched if he had of decided to ditch Hallward that very same day Lord Henry Wotton visits? Or how about Lily Bart (House of Mirth), life would have been much easier if she skipped tea with Selden. Don't get me started on Shakespeare.
ooh okay read Portrait of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde) and House of Mirth (Edith Wharton).
2006-12-22 00:06:27 · answer #2 · answered by miss_ursie_la 3 · 14⤊ 3⤋
The Cirque Du Freak series and Harry Potter does seem to have a lot too.
2006-12-22 12:26:59 · answer #3 · answered by Alyssa 5 · 11⤊ 6⤋
"The bridge at San Luis Rey" by Thornton Wilder. About a bridge that collapsed and killed everyone on it and how they wound up being on the bridge at all.
2006-12-21 23:45:07 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 11⤊ 6⤋