What if I said it's not you, it's me? (Stranger than Fiction)
Harold is an AMAZING character in the beginning of the story. He's one of those people who think differently (mathematically), counting everything, and noticing things and details an average person normally doesn't. But of course, he has to meet a girl who changes all of that. He's turned into a normal person, where I thought he was a much more fascinating person when his brain ticked different then ours. I know the protagonist is supposed to change as the story progresses, but now he's boring. He thinks like the rest of us now, where his accelerated abilities in math will probably continue to deteriorate from here on out. Sure, he's represented as "boring" and "average" in the beginning, but in a different way. It's too predictable for Harold to meet a rebellious love interest (Ana Pascal) who helps him loosen up his character by the end of the story. What I'm trying to get across is that in my opinion Harold Crick was a lot more interesting in the beginning, and it's way too common that the hero of the story (especially this one) is changed by a girl. Great. Now he's just like the rest of us. (One of us! One of us!)
I did think the whole narrating Harold’s life aspect of the story was new. However there is something to be said about Karren Eiffel's (the narrator) two different endings where the second ending was supposedly not as good as the first one she had come up with where Harold died. The original ending Karren had wrote was Harold dying after getting hit by a Need for Speed bus driver but not before Harold heroically pushed a child out of the way. The revised ending Karren wrote was Harold LIVING after getting hit by a Need for Speed bus driver but not before Harold heroically pushed a child out of the way. Both endings where predictable sure, but saying that one was better than the other is highly debatable.