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Favourite Literary Character?

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    #62
    casey212
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    Jack Sheehan wrote: »
    Currently Howard Roark from Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead.

    Good book, old Howard, always one to stick to his principles.


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    #63
    pljudge321
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    Dades wrote: »
    Tyrion, from A Song of Ice and Fire.

    I'm going to second this one, a truly excellent and ingaging character.


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    #64
    slipss
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    At the minute probably Raistlin from the Dragonlance books or Crowley from Good Omens.


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    #65
    Jay P
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    The Narrator - Fight Club
    Sunny Baudelaire - A Series of Unfortunate Events
    The guy in Breakfast at tiffanys, cant recall his name


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    #66
    Serpentine
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    Gloria Patch (The Beautiful & Damned)/Nicole Diver (Tender is the Night) :D


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    #67
    marie_85
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    Mine are a little clichéd, but ah well...

    Mr. Rochester - (Jane Eyre)
    Boxer & Benjamin- (Animal Farm)
    Aslan - (Chronicles of Narnia)
    Holden Caulfield - (Catcher in the Rye)
    O'Brien - (1984)
    Aragorn - (Lord of the Rings)


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    #68
    Indie18
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    ford prefect-hitchikers guide to the galaxy
    yossarian-catch 22.closing time
    gandolf-lotr


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    #69
    MrJoeSoap
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    Arthur Dent and Marvin, from the Hitchhikers series.


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    #70
    greatscott
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    Dunbar deserves an honourable mention at least.

    As well as Holden Caulfield, the Glass family have a great array of characters.

    Sherriff Bell in No Country For Old Men is very well described and believeable.

    The guy in Despair by Nabokov (i think its "Herbert") is funny too and more likeable than Humbert maybe.

    The winner for me off the top of my head is "Engleby" by Sebastian Faulks... he's like Holden Caufield gone wrong, in England, in the eighties. Faulks brilliantly makes you laugh with the guy, laugh at him; root for him and recoil at him.


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    #71
    clicli
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    Marius from the Vampire Chronicles
    Jon Shannow from Wolf in Shadow, David Gemmell
    Mr Darcy from Pride and Prejudice
    Louis and Angel from Every Dead Thing, John Connolly
    Esmenet from the Darkness that comes before R Scott Baker
    Edward from Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter
    Druss the Legend, David Gemmell
    Jimmy the Hand, Magician, Raymond E Feist

    Can't think of anymore right now!!


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