your Favorite Lit. Figure
Wife of Bath - no contest.
vous?
Herman Hesse, as himself, in everything he wrote.
T. S. Garp (World According To) and/or Homer Wells (Cider House Rules)
Yossarian (Catch-22) is up there, as is Rincewind (Diskworld), but I'd have to say...
Bean. Ender's Game/Ender's Shadow.
I'm not really sure why, either. There's just something about him I adore.
re: the above.
Re; god, you're all freaks...
(silent realization)
Biggles
Where the hell was he, when I needed him last Saturday?
Saturdays he has tea with Ginger and Algeron
Mike Smith or Lazarus Long.
Lazarus Long was just a dirty old man..... (ok, dirty, very old man)
So, we all need someone we can relate to.
Richard Sharpe is pretty cool
Oh, and i totally wanna nail Ayla
T. S. Garp (World According To)
I liked that character but I read that book during a bad time in relationship...
Charlie and the two siblings from The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Wolf Larson from Sea Wolf
Lily, her nanny, the aunts, and Lily's boyfriend from The Secret Lives of Bees
I have so many! /cry
Master Robinton - from the Pern series
Merry and Pippin - from LOTR
Lord Morgan - The Deryni Chronicles
Bob Cratchit - A Christmas Carol
god, you're all freaks...
(silent realization)
Come on, Brianna. You can't convince me you're only now figuring this out! :3eye:
So who is mine? Hmmm. If it's the one I like the most it may be Miles Vorkosigan. Or Lord Vetinari from the Discworld books. Oh, I guess Horace Rumpole would be up there too. If it's the one I identify with most strongly, probably William Henry Devereaux, Jr. (from
Straight Man by Richard Russo).
In my yoot it was J.P. Donleavy's protagonists, lately the only literary characters I sepnd much time with and like are Frog and Toad, and of course Squirell Nutkin.
Squirell Nutkin?
Lady Sharrow from Iain M Banks' Against a Dark Background
Lucifer Box from Mark Gatiss' The Vesuvious Club
Thursday Next from Jasper Fforde's The Eyre Affair series
How disappointing that having started a programme of reading the classics, all my characters are from books less than 10 years old!
Gregor Samsa
Scout
Jane Eyre
Ligeia
Lazarus Long, from Time Enough To Love, in a landslide.
Others I admire, identify with, enjoy traveling with, etc.
Job, from the book of Job. The narrator, the widower of Lenore, in The Raven. Roland, from the Dark Tower series. There are others.
Mary Anne has better character development.
Mike Mulligan
Not two hours ago I bought that book for my nephews birthday this weekend.
Talk about your synchronicity.
Lazarus Long, from Time Enough To Love, in a landslide.
Really? I love the book, but I'm not sure I'd trust Old Buddy Boy.
[FONT=Arial][SIZE=3]Sir John Falstaff - Marry, then, sweet wag, when thou art king, let not us
[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial][SIZE=3]that are squires of the night's body be called thieves of the
day's beauty. Let us be Diana's Foresters, Gentlemen of the Shade,
Minions of the Moon; and let men say we be men of good
government, being governed as the sea is, by our noble and
chaste mistress the moon, under whose countenance we steal.[/SIZE][/FONT]
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Yes he's a cowardly thieving amoral bastard, but so's most of Congress and we vote for them. At least he has style and does give some decent advice on how to avoid all of the other [/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial][SIZE=3]cowardly thieving amoral bastards.
He's also an honest crook.
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[FONT=Arial][SIZE=3] CHIEF JUSTICE. Well, the truth is, Sir John, you live in great infamy.
[COLOR=black]FALSTAFF[/COLOR]. He that buckles himself in my belt cannot live in less.[/SIZE][/FONT]
yeah, I'd go with Falstaff - an honest-to-goodness out-and-out rogue.....
you knew where you stood with him, and kept a close eye on your granny.
Changing mine... Caliban.
Not two hours ago I bought that book for my nephews birthday this weekend.
Talk about your synchronicity.
It's a great book. That will make a good present.
Its a pair for me.. Lennie and George
Not two hours ago I bought that book for my nephews birthday this weekend.
Talk about your synchronicity.
Well, if you ever come out to the Boston area, you can drive to
West Newbury, Mass. and see the real town hall that is pictured in the book.
I also :heartpump Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
But, only if they are Dead.
This could be a very, very long list.
Some highlights (which is my way of saying these are the ones that sprung to mind first):
Burke, from the series of books by Andrew Vachss
Willy Wonka
Mowgli from Kipling's Jungle Books
Black Beauty
Jane Eyre
Menolly from Anne McCaffrey's Pern books
Jaelle n'ha Melora from Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover
Sam, the kid from My Side of the Mountain
Paul Atreides, but only the first book. It was all downhill after Dune, some books sliding more rapidly than others.
Sherlock Holmes. How can you not like Holmes?
I have spent a lot of time in the world of Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee, but I can't say that they've ever made it to the level of "favorite," just familiar.
John Galt
Somehow I knew that.
I'm about 3/4s way through 1984, and I've fallen in love with Winston.
[COLOR="Red"][SIZE="7"]SANITY IS NOT STATISTICAL.[/SIZE][/COLOR]
It's a double plus good read, eh?
John Galt
Lately, I'm identifying more with Reardon.