The Movie City of Joy took a minor character from the novel so it could be a vehicle for a Hollywood star, in this case Patrick Swayze. I think World War Z, mentioned elsewhere on this thread, was guilty of the same, but I can’t remember if Brad Pitt’s character is even in the novel.
u/thoughtfullycatholic has an accurate take on Stoicism, but I think chapter one is MC’s roll call of every positive character trait he was exposed to growing up, and hopes influenced him. In this line it’s a lack of self entitlement and resentment.
Not notes, but I bookmark any passage I like. Later I photocopy and cut out the excerpt to paste in a notebook. I scrapbook all my favourite passages.
Okay, this definitely warrants absolute craziest book status. Where to start? Flaming dogs? THE BABY SCENE?
I don’t know if this is what you mean, but The Hand that Signed the Paper by Helen Demidenko was a controversial winner of Australia’s most prestigious literary prize the Miles Franklin Award. It won best fiction even after Demidenko family memoir of WW2 Ukraine was revealed to have been written by Helen Dale, the daughter of UK immigrants.
Demidenko and Khouri both feature in the Wiki article List of fake memoirs and journals.