+417 It would be cool if an author wrote a book, and then wrote another book telling the same story from the perspective of a different character, amirite?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow are two books that actually do that, and they are two of my favorite books.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

And the fact that they're told from the perspective of the two smartest children ever doesn't hurt.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Ender's Game! Just, yes. Orsan Scott Card is a brilliant author. Who's perspective is it in Ender's Shadow?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Bean's

by Anonymous 12 years ago

That's what i was going to say. Great books.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Look up Terry Truman and his books 'Stuck in Neutral' and 'Cruise Control'.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Twilight/midnight sun

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Midnight Sun was never published. It doesn't count.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Although she did publish the book the Short Second Life of Bree Tanner, a book from another character's perspective in Eclipse

by Anonymous 12 years ago

That one does count.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

The Five Ancestors. Each book advances the story, but they all take place in roughly the same span of time from the view of different main characters.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Margaret Atwood does something similar, although not identical, with her novels //Oryx and Crake// and //The Year of the Flood//.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

They either have to alternate perspectives within the book, pick one interesting character to tell the story through, or the fanfiction fandom needs to be adequate.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Theyve done this many times

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Ellen Hopkins does that in almost all of her books.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I don't know if the Inheritance series counts, but they switch perspectives throughout

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Beowolf was actually done like that. The book, Grendel is beowolf written from the monsters perspective.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

The book "Will Grayson, Will Grayson" by John Green and David Levithan does this, except it's only one book, each chapter an alternating perspective.

by Anonymous 12 years ago