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100 Best Characters in Fiction Since 1900

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  • 08-04-2002 12:32am
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    pugwall
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    Check it out here.
    Its compiled for 'book magazine' in the US. I came across it in the Sunday Tribune today and thought it was quite interesting. Here are the top 10:

    1 - Jay Gatsby, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925
    2 - Holden Caulfield, The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger, 1951
    3 - Humbert Humbert, Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov, 1955
    4 - Leopold Bloom, Ulysses, James Joyce, 1922
    5 - Rabbit Angstrom, Rabbit, Run, John Updike, 1960
    6 - Sherlock Holmes, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1902
    7 - Atticus Finch, To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee, 1960
    8 - Molly Bloom, Ulysses, James Joyce, 1922
    9 - Stephen Dedalus, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce, 1916
    10 - Lily Bart, The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton, 1905

    Good to see 3 of Joyce's well knon and loved characters present in the top 10. I haven't read Ulysses yet, but I really enjoyed Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and thought Stephen Dedalus was a great character.
    Who wyou add to your 'list'?


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    Manach
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    From a SciFi Fantasy Perspective: Top 10

    1 Gandalf the Grey - LOTR, Tolken
    2 Thomas Convenant - Unbeliver Series, Stephen Donaldson
    3 Miles Vorkosigan - Barrayar Series, Lois MacMasters Bujold
    4 Nessus the Puppeter - Ring World, Larry Niven
    5 Pug/Millibar - Magician Series, Raymond Feist
    6 Gollum - LOTR, Tolkein
    7 Ender- Ender's Games, Orson Scot Card
    8 The duo of Crowley & Aziraphale - Good Omen, Pratchett & Gaiman
    9 John Carter - Man of Mars Series, Edgar Rice Burroughs
    10 Susan Calvin - Robot Series, Iaasic Asimov


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    Terminator
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    My list is also mainly sci-fi related

    1. Gandalf, LOTR, JRR Tolkien
    2. Tyrion Lannister, A Song of Ice And Fire, George RR Martin
    3. Moraine, The Wheel of Time, Robert Jordan
    4. Big Brother, Big Brother, George Orwell
    5. The Ice Queen, The Lion The Witch & The Wardrobe , CS Lewis
    6. Lestat, Vampire Chronicles, Anne Rice
    7. Gollum, LOTR, JRR Tolkien
    8. Evandar/Nevin, Devvery Series, Katherine Kerr
    9. Lan, The Wheel of Time, Robert Jordan
    10. Daenerys, A Song of Ice And Fire, George RR Martin


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    kitton
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    i'd have to put in Yossarian from catch 22 and the cheshire cat from alice in wonderland,i dont know if he counts as a character,oh and i doubt it was in the last 100 years,damnit!agree with jay gatsby and holden caulfield though,i like lux in virgin suicides,im odd though.


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