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Take a look at Joseph Cambell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces, and you will see that most myths and most religions are basically the same story told with small variations. The same applies for a lot of epic modern stories already mentioned here (LOTR, Star Wars, Harry Potter).

Good stories a driven by characters, and if the reader gets involved in the characters, they won't even notice (or at least mind) that they are being told the same story one more time.

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