Favourite Literary Character?

The Doktor · 11-12-2007 7:47pm

Henry Chinaski

roxychix · 12-12-2007 3:23am

Marlow from heart of darkness
Gar from philadelphia here i come. did i stay or go to america that question has haunted me since my LC
Gertrude from Sons & Lovers
Eve from pardise lost not just a character weaker than men but milton is trying to say that if it were not for her adam would have done even more stupider things. not that she was clever either. if she did something stupid Adam would correct her and vica versa
The wife of Bath from chaucer very independent for her time/ you could even say before her time. always get what she wants
Portia from the mercahnt of venice because she gets one over on shylock.
Ron from harry potter always makes me laugh
Should not have found this thread would be here all night if i listed all my favs so ill leave it at that.

Talon1977 · 12-12-2007 3:56am

Prince Myshkin from The Idiot by Dostoevsky

Robinson Crusoe from the book of the same title.

Pip from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

The Druid, Allanon, from the Shannara series by Terry Brooks.

Corran Horn from I, Jedi by Michael Stackpole (it's a Star Wars Novel) :rolleyes:

fillefatale · 15-12-2007 1:12pm

Jane Eyre
Catherine Earnshaw - Wuthering Heights
Holden Caulfield - The Catcher in the Rye
Anne Blythe - Anne of Green Gables
Humbert Humbert - Lolita
Lestat de Lioncourt - The Vampire Chronicles

ehhowaya · 16-12-2007 3:59pm

Oh yeah didnt even think of Lestat de Lioncourt!

Cal - Middlesex
Hatsumomo - Memoirs of a Geisha
Holden Caulfield
Miranda Priestly - the Devil wears Prada
Elizabeth Bennett
Hazel - Watership Down

Valmont · 16-12-2007 8:03pm

Anton17 wrote: »

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?:)

If I wanted to sound cool, I'd go to the personal issues forum and fabricate a story about how I'm tired of screwing a different girl every night.

When I think of a character that I really like, he springs to mind along with most of Bret Easton Ellis' characters (except himself after page 50 of Lunar Park), but of course what better way to sound cool than say I liked Clay from Lunar Park.

I don't see how this would in any way make me seem nihilistic, as far I understand the definition anyway. I think you mean apathy and if I was wanted to be seen as apathetic, I wouldn't be discussing my favourite characters on boards.

Did you even read Less than Zero

for example, when clay is reluctant to partake in the 'rape' of the young girl - incidents such as this subtly reveal aspects of his character

take your inane preconceptions somewhere else please. I like the literature forum because this crap is usually absent

Talon1977 · 18-12-2007 4:53pm

.... there's really no need for all the angst.

RonMexico · 19-12-2007 12:06am

Raoul Duke & Dr. Gonzo aka Hunter S. Thompson & Oscar Zeta Acosta.

Killme00 · 19-12-2007 2:33pm

KIVES wrote: »

Ignatius J. Reilly (A Confederacy of Dunces)

Dot fecking dot..Fat pig was brilliant

Also

Robert Neville - I am Legend
Napoleon - Animal Farm
Charlie Parker - John Connolly Novels

Branoic · 21-12-2007 5:08pm

Muad'dib

Skellington · 23-12-2007 6:17pm

Alex - A Clockwork Orange
Luke - The Dice Man
McMurphy - One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest
Rob - High Fidelity

is_that_so · 23-12-2007 6:24pm

Paddington Bear
Mack - Cannery Row
Uriah Heep -David Copperfield(most unctuous character in any book)
Gabriel Oak - Far from the Madding Crowd
Yossarian
Don Quixote

ronano · 24-12-2007 3:42am

Prof. Timofey Pnin from the nove Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov. I've never come across a more endearing,humorous character but above all truly human character.

starn · 24-12-2007 3:57am

Dean Moriarty, Self explanatory
Tigger.The proper way to spell it of course, being T-I-double-guh-err
Satan - Paradice Lost, He gets all the best lines

longshanks · 24-12-2007 3:38pm

hank chinaski, or maybe jesus. fuuck it, i'll go for allah. salam aleykum biitches

Valmont · 24-12-2007 6:02pm

starn wrote: »

Dean Moriarty, Self explanatory

most definitely self explanatory, what a guy:D

Valmont · 24-12-2007 6:04pm

ronano wrote: »

Prof. Timofey Pnin from the nove Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov. I've never come across a more endearing,humorous character but above all truly human character.

brilliant, I mentioned him earlier on in the thread. He was charming and dithering and above all really funny. The last description of him in the book really stuck with me since I read it.

trellheim · 24-12-2007 6:12pm

Jack Aubrey from the Aubrey/Maturin novels

longshanks · 26-12-2007 5:55pm

badger from yesterdays blaas

Mrs. MacGyver · 02-01-2008 9:31pm

Mrs. MacGyver wrote: »

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

Oh and Heathcliff from wuthering heights!

sc317 · 03-01-2008 11:47pm

Colonel Aureliano Buendia (100 Years of Solitude - GGM)
Dorian Gray
Julián Santos (La Malamemoria - Isaac Rosa)
Meursault
Hamlet

McGinty · 06-01-2008 6:19pm

The wife of bath - Chaucer

Jones - Confederacy of Dunces, sorry to all those who love ignatiaus but Jones was the smart dude

Molly Bloom - the brains behind the man

stolenwine · 10-01-2008 7:05pm

At the moment ["Norwegian Wood" Haruki Murakami] Midori- she provides the comic relief .

theCzar · 11-01-2008 4:12pm

Some of favourites listed already.

Robert Neville is indeed a legend.
Commander Vimes is all the best hard boiled detectives triple distilled but unfiltered. Cool, collected, smart and hard as nails.

Yossarian though is my favourite. I would like to name first born after him (need a female host first, applications?). He is the best rebel character I've read. Perpetually terrified by the madness of the war but astoundingly brave in spite of it, deep and thoughtful yet hilarious. Madmen often think it is the world that is insane, not them. Yossarian is the only one who's right.

Honourable mention to Milo. Milo and Yossarian are similar in some ways. Mil too sees the madness, but lacking Yossarian's empathy, Milo uses his genius and charisma to exploit it. He makes the whole mess worse, and himself rich. He gets my vote as the most loveable villain. You can't help but like him.