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Talk to me about supporting characters. When you're supposed to fall for the heroine, and instead it's the second spear-carrier from the left who turns out to have the thorniest moral dilemma or the most fascinating backstory. This happens to me all the time; I can't be the only one. So who are your scene-stealers? Movies, books, operas—your own work—which character roles do you remember long after you've forgotten who played the protagonist?

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Every single one of the supporting characters of Clive Barker's Abarat books, as well as the (immensely cool) setting itself, is infinitely more interesting than the protagonist. She's a Lost Princess, and we've all seen it before, but she travels with a version of the Horned Man who has a separate and separately conscious head on each antler spine, and is being courted by the King of Pain as he chases her through an archipelago in which each island is literally a personification of an hour of the day (as well as one for the Mysterious Twenty-Fifth Hour).

Unfortunately, she is so awful, so truly fucking flat and boring, and the plot is so lousy that I can't possibly recommend the books. It's a damn shame.

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Unfortunately, she is so awful, so truly fucking flat and boring, and the plot is so lousy that I can't possibly recommend the books.

Well, feh. Because the King of Pain and the Twenty-Fifth Hour sound awesome.