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[watchusburn.livejournal.com]

hey, does anyone know of any fiction books with the subject of multiplicity, or DID or MPD or whatever?

Preferably good/non-sensational books, but anything will be be fine.

Thanks in advance

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[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=multiplicity&keyword=books&filter=all

http://www.karitas.net/pavilion/library/library_media.html

http://www.astraeasweb.net/plural/books.html

These might help.

[drleanne.livejournal.com]

Fiction?

All Around The Town-- Mary Higgins Clark

Triple Boy-- Dale Bick Carlson

Morning Come Quickly-- Wanda Karriker

Primal Fear-- William Diehl

All available on amazon

[sethrenn.livejournal.com]

What are Triple Boy and Primal Fear about? We're working on a list of fiction with plural characters, trying to get synopses for books we haven't personally read.

[drleanne.livejournal.com]

primal fear was made into a movie with ed norton and richar gere. it was a story about murder and the guy who did it played multiple for th court. turns out he faked it but thats the end twist and you buy tat the character is multi.

triple boy i dont really remember what it was about. i borrowed it from the library and had jotted down in a book list that it was on mpd.

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

It's a kids' book; http://www.poppsbookshop.com/si/002208.html

"Guilt over his brother's death and trauma over his parents' divorce have created two additional personalities in Paul. His friend, a psychiatry resident, tries to help him." Well, this should contribute to the "cutoff age" debate ...

Gabe and Jessy once looked up "multiple personality fiction" on Amazon and wrote down the names of the ones they didn't know, intending to read and review them all as one of their summer reading projects three years ago. But actually it looks like the list we took Triple Boy from was a list Tamsin of your House made about the same time! We can send you everything. Most of it is The Same Old Stuff.

[paladin1701.livejournal.com]

I don't remember the author's name, but look up the title "Put this house in order". Also, though it is not per-se a book with DID as the main subject, the novel "Maribou Stork Nightmares" by Irvine Welsh deals with inner worldspaces in a way that I believe is very interesting.

[sethrenn.livejournal.com]

Uhm, the good ones I know of are all sci-fi and fantasy. I guess a lot of people find the idea of multiplicity easier to accept in a 'fantastic' background setting?

Maskerade and Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett-- apparently Pratchett has positively portrayed multiple characters in other books as well.
This Alien Shore by C.S. Friedman
The Watcher's Mask by Laurie Marks
Circuit of Heaven by Dennis Danvers
Aristoi by Walter J. Williams

[rabbitsystem.livejournal.com]

Gotta second the Terry Prachett books, they're brilliant - I'm re-reading Maskerade at the moment.
Also: there's a very minor appearance by a multiple in Thud; Tiffany's Third Thoughts could be considered multiplicity (Wee Free Men, A Hat Full Of Sky, Wintersmith) and I'm sure I remember another but I cannot remember specifics.

[echoesnspectres.livejournal.com]

I just found this one (http://www.amazon.com/Blindsight-Peter-Watts/dp/0765312182/) (from here (http://www.scifi.com/sfw/books/sfw13832.html)). Sounds like it has the neurology element in common with This Alien Shore; possibly the autistic angle too, with the "younger, colder, more focused Sherlock Holmes"-like protagonist. (Because Sherlock Holmes seems so autistic - C. S. Friedman resurrected that connection in Kio Masada, in the opinion of our readers; not because of the emotionless empathyless observer archetype, we could do with a bit less of that one.)

We'll probably look into this one at some time in the future (if the aliens haven't arrived before then), but it would be nice to find a book in which people like us live ordinary lives in the everyday world. I half expect the first step in that direction to be a crime novel in which the multiple character is the detective - it has been done with various disabilities, and the idea of turning the multiple psycho killer stereotype on its head might appeal to someone.

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

We're still waiting for the book in which the jewel thief or whatever is suspected to be multiple, but it turns out that he's not, and neither is the cop or the detective or whatever, and the only actual multiple in the book is the mayor or the bank president or some other solid citizen.

[appadil.livejournal.com]

If you don't mind a bit of cliche fantasy, David Gemmel's Dark Moon is pretty good- the rest of the novel is kind of blah in a lot of places, but I enjoyed the dynamic between Chio and Dace a lot. The two of them initially come off as a typical good/evil portrayal, but their relationship is a lot more nuanced then it appears at first.

The "Tribe of One" trilogy by Simon Hawke is also more or less tolerable, but it's kind of cliche-ridden and I think the author is kind of projecting his own issues at certain points, particularly when it comes to sexuality.

I've been kind of keeping a running list of various fictional portrayals that I've come across, but those are the only two books I've read that I'd really recommend that deal with something approximating the traditional/medical model. Your options are a bit better if you include things further outside that paradigm.

[tvoytoy.livejournal.com]

the Minds of Billy Milligan by Daniel Keyes

sorry,if i've mentioned something common. i've just joined the community and the whole topic.

nice to meet you=)

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

Welcome. No, it's okay, I should think that could go on the list, except for it's nonfiction. Well, it reads like a novel, anyway. The author did write a novel, The Fifth Sally, pretty conventional take on multiplicity if you ask me. :b

[watchusburn.livejournal.com]

=D Thank you to everyone who replied! I realy apprishiate it~!