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I think first-person narrators should be complex, because otherwise the first-person is too shallow and predictable. I like a first-person narrator who can't totally be trusted.

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Rick Moody
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: October 18
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New York City
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Hiram Frederick III Moody
Hiram Frederick Moody III
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