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Favourite Literary Character?

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  • 27-11-2007 7:42pm
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    Lands Leaving
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    Few I like would be Clay from Less Than Zero, Rojack from An American Dream, Marlow from Heart of Darkness and Roland from Stephen Kings Dark Tower.

    Who are yours?


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    #2
    Red Hand
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    Yossarian lives!!!!-Catch 22

    Commander Vimes from Terry Pratchett's Discworld

    Inspector Morse from Colin Dexter's books

    Adrian Mole from Sue Townsand's books

    I've just realised that many, in fact all I've posted, pop up in more than one book.:)

    So as a character in one story, I will go with Harriet Dufresnes from Donna Tart's The Little Friend-a novel with no sequels nor is it part of a series.


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    humbert
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    The eponymous Vernon Little.


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    Valmont
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    good call on Clay from less than zero. I'd say Victor from Glamorama too. Pechorin from 'A Hero of our Time', Humbert from 'Lolita' and Pnin from 'Pnin' I really liked too.


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    Dades
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    Tyrion, from A Song of Ice and Fire.


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    Alsatian_Cousin
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    Adrian Mole, Keith Talent (from Amis' London Fields), Pinkie Brown (Brighton Rock), Stephen Dedalus


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    KIVES
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    Ignatius J. Reilly (A Confederacy of Dunces)
    Vernon Little - bit of a cliche I know but the truth
    Holden Caulfield - same as above but much closer to home
    The Student (no name) - At Swim-Two-Birds


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    gillyfromlyre
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    sophie from sophies world


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    Zaph
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    Zaphod Beeblebrox from The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy
    Death from the Discworld books
    Jack Parlabane from several Christopher Brookmyre books
    Nick Naylor from Thank You for Smoking


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    arctic_fox
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    Sam Spade - The Maltese Falcon

    Mr.Fox - Fantastic Mr.Fox

    Aragorn - LOTR ...be honest he was "the SH!T"


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    Karlusss
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    Leopold Bloom
    Yossarian
    Macbeth
    Holden Caulfield
    Dean Moriarty


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    Gillie
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    Gary Soneji - (Along came a spider and Cat & Mouse)
    Micheal "the butcher of Sligo" Sullivan (Cross (i think!))


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    Mrs. MacGyver
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    Adrian Mole
    Charlie Bucket - Charlie and the chocolate factory
    Jo- Little Women


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    Ho-Hum
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    Randall Flagg - The Stand, The Dark Tower
    McMurphy - One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest


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    _blank_
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    Eddie Dean - The Dark Tower.

    Ford Prefect - HHGTTG.

    Winston Smith - Nineteen Eighty Four.

    Alex - A Clockwork Orange.


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    ashyle
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    Owen Meany- from a Prayer for..
    Adrian Mole is a ledge.
    Hermione Granger (cos she's me) and Dumbledore-HP
    Mathilda
    Dally from the Outsiders


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    Piste
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    Charlie from the Perks of Being a Wallflower.

    The hero/protagonist from Fight Club.


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    Otis Driftwood
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    Top for me is definitly Roland of Gilead from the Dark Tower Cycle.

    Honourable mentions to

    Patrick Bateman-american psycho
    Sean Bateman-the rules of attraction
    Norman Daniels-rose madder
    Annie Wilkes-misery


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    r3nu4l
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    Commander Vimes, (Pratchett)
    Adrian Mole, (Townsend)
    Arthur Dent, (Adams)
    Jonathon Strange, (Clarke)
    Samwise Gamgee, (Tolkien)
    Sam Weller (Dickens)


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    froosh69
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    Raul Duke from "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"
    and Francis Begbie from "Trainspotting".


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    buck65
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    IGNATIUS REILLY - A confederacy of dunces

    HE THE MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!


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    Anton17
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    :)
    Valmont wrote: »
    good call on Clay from less than zero. I'd say Victor from Glamorama too. Pechorin from 'A Hero of our Time', Humbert from 'Lolita' and Pnin from 'Pnin' I really liked too.

    Clay is almost completely devoid of character. He's so passive and detached - which of course is the point - but he's definitley not much in the way of a character. Are you just trying to sound cool and nihilistic?:)

    Victor, on the other hand, is an excelent character who actually evolves throughout Glamorama and has a personality. Good call.


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    Intothesea
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    Jane Eyre, Konstantin Levin and Charlie Bucket :)


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    stovelid
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    Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, from the Rabbit series by Updike.


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    ZorbaTehZ
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    Anton17 wrote: »
    :)Clay is almost completely devoid of character. He's so passive and detached - which of course is the point - but he's definitley not much in the way of a character. Are you just trying to sound cool and nihilistic?:)

    I assume it's all the sex and drugs. Plus there's the fact that he's disgustingly rich. But his sense of meaningless is all consuming for him, as you touch on - personally I thinks it's a terrible choice. :)


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    Kold
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    Yossarian
    Dr Gonzo
    Kilgore Trout


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    humbert
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    I have to include Howard Roark and if I could be with any woman in the world it would be Dominique. Oh, from the Fountainhead.


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    Lands Leaving
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    ZorbaTehZ wrote: »
    I assume it's all the sex and drugs. Plus there's the fact that he's disgustingly rich. But his sense of meaningless is all consuming for him, as you touch on - personally I thinks it's a terrible choice. :)

    He's not all that likeable a character, but his narration passes that detachment on to the reader, so in the sense that you see the world through his eyes, and become somewhat desensitised to what goes on, as he does, when really it should be shocking, he's a good character. But I can completely see why you could think the opposite.


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    Outer Bongolia
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    Sherlock Holmes
    Michael Henchard (The Mayor of Casterbridge)


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    Tar.Aldarion
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    So man from teh Malazan series. Brilliantly written. Especially Kruppe, Karsa, Pust, Grey Frog etc.
    Kellhus from the prince of nothing series, along with achamian and their barbarian friend. :)
    Tyrion, song of ice and fire Series.
    Roland Deshain, the Dark Tower Series.


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    ZiMZuM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 147 ✭✭ZiMZuM


    Druss the Legend
    Waylander
    Aragorn
    Prof Snape
    Pug/Milamber


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