Do you have a favourite book character?

[Tiny Pixie]

Originally Posted by Laurent

Me, three.

And me also
(Severus ruuules !)


Now that I think about it, my favourite character ever would be Heathcliff, in Emile Bronte's Wuthering Heights.

[yanna]

Ok, we're talking characters that I truly cared for and I couldn't let go of them once the book was over.

I'm low brow too so we start with the Harry Potter. I completely fell for Snape almost from the start but truly knew it was love when he came forward at the end of Goblet and showed his Dark Mark. That was it.

Boromir and Faramir from Lord of the Rings. The real Faramir, not that thing in Jackson's Two Towers. I blame the movie and Sean Bean too for my Boromir thing...

Athos from The Three Musketeers, so tragic and Richelieu (yes, I know he was real but anyway) who I think must have been a very sexy beast.

From Discworld, Lord Vetinari, Vimes, Susan Sto Helit and Death

Cpt Nemo from 20000 Leagues under the Sea. I grew up with Jules Verne books. I also loved Phileas Fogg from Around the world in 80 days.

Sherlock Holmes

Hercule Poirot (just love him, not romantically inclined towards him)

Fantomas the Lord of Terror from the Fantomas series of books.
Fantômas
Vous dites ?
Je dis... Fantômas
Cela signifie QUOI ?
Rien et tout
Pourtant qu'est-ce que c'est ?
Personne. Mais cependant quelqu'un.
Enfin que fait-il ce quelqu'un ?
IL FAIT PEUR

There were moments when the books seriously scared me and we're talking about books written in the beginning of the 20th century.

Ronald Merrick the racist, repressed homosexual sadist antihero from Paul Scott's The Raj Quartet. It has something to do with Tim Pigot-Smith's amazing performance in the TV series Jewel in the Crown which was based on the books. It's hard to separate the two. It's not exactly that I liked this character but he completely fascinated me.

I see only one woman here and that kinda upsets me . Not sure why but there it is.

I'm sure I'll think of others too later but that's it for now.

[Thalia]

Wow, this is a great topic!
Off the top of my head, I can think of these characters as ones I've really enjoyed...

Joe Kavalier from "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay" (just really artistic and brooding, quite crush-worthy)

Dunstan Ramsay from "Fifth Business" (a witty old professorial type)

Ralph Touchett from "The Portrait of a Lady" (kind but misguided invalid, his final scene in the book makes me cry!)

Kate Croy and Milly Theale from "The Wings of the Dove" (I love Kate because she's so complicated, both capable of deep loving and extreme deviousness, while Milly is one of those rare people who seem truly without malice)

Lambert Strether from "The Ambassadors" (His 'awakening consciousness' is really charming and insightfully portrayed - just great!)

The Wife of Bath from "Canterbury Tales" (A liberated medieval cougar with more husbands than she knows what to do with - a Samantha Jones for the 14th c.)

Becky Sharp from "Vanity Fair" (She's so catty and Thackeray's illustrations of her are hilarious)

Prince Myshkin in "The Idiot" (The way his goodness is scorned and reviled by that damned Russian aristocracy breaks my heart)

Elizabeth Bennett from "Pride and Prejudice" (What girl doesn't love her?)

I agree that Sugar from "The Crimson Petal..." and Severus Snape are also just fantastic characters.

[Chilly Willy]

Owen Meany (A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving)

Vina Aspara (The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Rushdie)

[cmmdee]

HATED Helen in Getting Rid of Matthew.
Wanted to strangle her with every page, paragraph, sentence.
Most unlikeable, vacuous, self-absorbed character ever.

[sputnik]

Originally Posted by Chilly Willy

Owen Meany (A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving)

Vina Aspara (The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Rushdie)

haven't read owen meany yet but agree about vina apsara. rushdie is pretty great with female characters, well all characters really. right now i'm reading 'shalimar the clown' and i'm really loving max ophuls, another one for the list of favourite characters.

[WhateverLolaWants]

Morgaine from Mists of Avalon or Perrin from the Wheel of Time series...even if it did get thoroughly lame at the end

[Just Kill Me]

Sita from The Last Vampire series by Christopher Pike; I read these when I was way young and she was such a total badass. Sometimes I reread them and they make me laugh my ass off.

[buttmunch]

Forgot about Becky Sharp. Love her just as I love Scarlett. Can't stand simpering Melanie.

[Dixie Normos]

Molly - The Rubyfruit Jungle
She's clever, smart-mouthed, and lives life the way she wants to, never holds back, so courageous!

Rincewind - The Discworld Series
Self-preservation's spokesperson, Rincewind is only clever when it helps to keep him alive. Sarcastic, nihilistic.

Hermiony Granger - Kind hearted know it all

I HATED Fudge (Peter's bro in same titled book). I was so mad that he ate his big brother's turtle (and DIDN'T get in trouble for killing it) that I ripped the book in half and burst into tears.

[january]

God, so many great ones mentioned! I also adore Ursula in One Hundred years of Solitude. I'll have to think of more later.

[Calipunkerz]

This may be nerdy but, E-Myth

[S&R's Mom]

Stephanie Plum. She really cracks me up.

[DoveFeatheredRaven]

Agatha Raisin in the MC Beaton series. Love that character!!

[Mariesoleil]

Here are some of my favorites:

Stephanie Plum

Tatiana (The Bronze Horsman - Paullina Simons)

Kinsey Millhone (Sue Grafton)

Becky Bloomwood (Sophie Kinsella - Shopaholic series)

Dave Robichaux (James Lee Burke)