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If you could live the life of a fictional character?

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  • 06-09-2011 2:10pm
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    Paddy Samurai
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    As it says.......who would it be?.
    I have read hundreds of books containing some brilliant characters ,but for me the life that most appeals to me would be that of Uhtred of Bebbanburg , in Bernard Cornwells series set in anglo/saxon britain.

    I love RR Martins ,Game of Thrones series,but none of their lives appeal to me.........too short:D.

    So if you could ,who would it be Sherlock Holmes?,Paul Atreides from Dune?,Leopold Bloom from Ulysses?,Judge Holden from Blood Meridian?....or something more sedate?.....Huckleberry finn?.


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    SBWife
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    Raoul Duke


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    Sergeant
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    Sir Harry Paget Flashman.


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    Emiko
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    A toss-up between Shantaram and Jack Shaftoe, King of the Vagabonds.


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    Andromeda_111
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    Dr Doolittle (a female version) :)


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    rockmongrel
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    Twoflower from the Discworld novels, what a happy, innocent life that would be.


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    longshanks
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    Henry Chinaski or maybe Jesus


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    Tordelback
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    Emiko wrote: »
    ...Jack Shaftoe, King of the Vagabonds.

    Aka 'Half-cocked Jack'? Err, no thanks! Harry Flashman is more the thing, well maybe not the slave trading stuff, or the frequent torture, or the constant state of terror, so well maybe not Flashy either.

    It's Jack Aubrey for me. Or maybe Samwise Gamgee,


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    Hermy
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    Sal Paradise On The Road

    Genealogy Forum Mod



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    epgc3fyqirnbsx
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    Pip from Great Expectations. It would be amazing to see London back then, and the marshes which for me were kind of hard to understand until you realise the huge lack of infrastructure as we know it. And that horrible class system.
    Actually, any of Dickens characters

    Also, John Blackthorne from Shogun. I can't even begin to imagine what it would be like to discover such a culture, at first savage but after a time, in some ways so progressive, hygiene and sex for the main part


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    patff
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    Gandalf the Grey :p


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    migozarad
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    Casanova


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    Elmidena
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    Mara from Feist's Empire Trilogy as I find her development and view on the world interesting, or maybe May-May from Tai-Pan...cunning, clever but delicate to an extent.


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    Mardy Bum
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    Tom Sawyer


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    Manach
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    Mr. Darcy of Pembleton.


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    Denerick
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    Brandon Stark. I want to inhabit trees.


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    D1stant
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    Lady Chatterleys lover


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    lordgoat
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    Great thread.

    Tomas from Feist's series.

    Kemp or Yehman from the rum diary.

    Toru or Naoko


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    Red Hand
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    Billy Pilgrim from Slaughterhouse 5. Not knowing what part of your life you are going to wake up in...excellent.


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    emeraldstar
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    Manach wrote: »
    Mr. Darcy of Pembleton.
    Do you mean Mr Darcy of Pemberley or is this one of his cousins?


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    Paddy Samurai
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    Daisy Attractive Nectar wrote: »

    Also, John Blackthorne from Shogun. I can't even begin to imagine what it would be like to discover such a culture, at first savage but after a time, in some ways so progressive, hygiene and sex for the main part

    Yeah I agree Blackthorne's experience is one that would be interesting to live through.


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    Manach
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    emeraldstar wrote: »
    Do you mean Mr Darcy of Pemberley or is this one of his cousins?
    Any one of his landed cousins would do. So long as it is not in one of those alternative histories worlds (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies) :)


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    Gneez
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    Desmond 'Coyote' from the Mars trilogy, stowaway about the Ares, colony ship to Mars, living in the ships greenhouse and being hidden by the farm crew, eventually becoming a critical part of the rebellion and uprising, living in the city zygote under the south polar cap and being an ambassador for the Mars underground.

    The guy sure gets around.


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    KTRIC
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    Tyler Durden, cant get more fictional than that :pac:


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    glomar
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    Dirk Pitt ... from the Clive Cussler books
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    Monty Burnz
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    Jesus, from best selling book 'The Bible'. Nice guy, popular with his friends. He hit a few rough patches, but it all worked out in the end.


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    KTRIC
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    Monty Burnz wrote: »
    Jesus, from best selling book 'The Bible'. Nice guy, popular with his friends. He hit a few rough patches, but it all worked out in the end.

    Its fictional not fantasy.


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    Conall Cernach
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    If we're allowed Fantasy and Sci-fi then I'd opt for either Aiken Drum or Marc Remillard from Julian May's The Saga of the Exiles.

    If we're being more realistic then how about the narrator of At Swim-Two-Birds?


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    gent9662
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    Dorian Gray


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    Manach
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    KTRIC wrote: »
    Its fictional not fantasy.
    Historical figure, not fictional. (IMO based on a classics course.)


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    Gordon Gecko
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    Bertie Wooster - a comfortable, carefree life!


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