Since the majority of examples on the page are of raissoneurs I propose the non-raissoneur examples be removed and this page renamed with a new description dedicated to only raissoneurs.
I am not chumbawumba.
loracarol
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10:22:01 AM Feb 8th 2011
Removed from the main page:
I found Cussler's self-inserts in his books to be so blatant, jarring, ham-handed and unnecessary that I actually stopped reading the second book in which I encountered it—as in, groaned out loud and closed the book—and never had any interest in reading any book of his again. It was that bad. The word "gratuitous" comes to mind but isn't strong enough.
While I may agree with you, the main page is no place to put first-person rants. ^_^ If you really feel so strongly, perhaps a review is in order?
ArcadesSabboth
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10:28:17 PM Jan 25th 2012 edited by ArcadesSabboth
Removed this because author avatar implies an avatar of the author or authors, not of an entire culture:
The Iliad and The Odyssey were both written several hundred years after The Trojan War, and the main characters are represented with suitably anachronistic values. The character of Odysseus is meant to represent the 'modern', sophisticated, archaic-period Greeks who were writing down the myths for the first time.
Also, I'm removing the example which consists entirely of the name "Jesus!" because it has no context or explanation, and Jesus did not write the Bible.