Literary character(s) you've fallen in love with

[Bossy Monkey]

I'm for Susila McPhail in "Island" by Aldous Huxley. How about you?

[Dookus]

1. Atticus Finch

from To Kill a Mockingbird

[VOX]

2. "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" by Thomas Hardy...

I love Tess. She works so hard but doesn't catch a break. I wish I could have met her and helped out in some way.

[Sideways]

3. Irving's Owen Meany

Adolph Ng in The Redundancy of Courage by Timothy Mo.

Just for starters.....

[LynneSin]

16. I'd rather have T.S. Garp

But that's just me!

[izzie]

4. Elizabeth Bennett, Mr Darcy and Mr Rochester I guess

:loveya:

[MaineDem]

14. Mr Darcy!

Or maybe it's just Colin Firth's portrayal... ;)

I loved reading "Pride and Prejudice" before Colin Firth so I guess it's just Mr Darcy.

[Boudicea]

20. Reading P&P now after trying unsuccessfully years ago

I thought back then, 'this is just a bunch of ladies going to parties.' But after viewing the A&E series, am getting into it tremendously. I'm not always this dense with classic fiction, but admit I was in this instance.

[Khephra]

5. Hagbard Celine

The Illuminatus Trilogy

[VermontDem2004]

6. I love reading

but I never liked fiction books, I do enjoy reading non-fiction books though.

[OldEurope]

7. D´Artagnan.

was 11 when I read Dumas for the first time.

[Whitacre D_WI]

8. Daisy Buchanan

from "The Great Gatsby."

There's just something about a beautiful little fool. Besides, I'm sure she would tear me down and wreck, just wreck me. We all need someone to destroy us. At least, that's what I've thought at certain times in my life.

[Rowdyboy]

9. Lazarus Long...

From Robert Heinlein's works.

[Mikimouse]

10. Roland DeShaines from Stephen King's

Dark Tower Series. Honorable and Just.

[Palacsinta]

11. Rhett Butler

I do give a damn!

[scarlet_owl]

12. The Grinch

Love that guy!

[theemu]

13. Caddy Compson

Caddy Compson from The Sound and the Fury, but for reasons entirely different than those Quentin holds.

Lily Briscoe from To the Lighthouse

Helen White from Winesburg, Ohio

[markses]

23. And then I saw Caddy

with flowers in her hair and a long veil like shining wind...Caddy...Caddy

But not the old fool Jason Sr., with his absurd pronouncements:

"Because battles are never won. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools..."

If you don't break out laughing at that bit, you're reading Faulkner all wrong. ;-)

[Art_from_Ark]

15. O

as in "Story of"
:evilgrin:

Runner up-- Emmanuelle

[hippiechick]

17. Bernard Mickey Wrangle

('The Woodpecker' in Still Life With Woodpecker)


I'm still waiting to meet my real life Bernard :loveya:


:hippie:

[mitchum]

18. Kenny Becker in Richard Price's "Ladies Man"...

but, then again, I'm a narcissist

[qwertyMike]

19. Horse Badorties

The FAN MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Boudicea]

21. Colonel Aureliano Buendia, 100 Yrs of Solitude

I would have gladly had his bastard children, as every young woman did in the novel. :)

[bif]

22. Holden Caulfield

I can relate to him in a lot of ways.

[last_texas_dem]

36. I agree

I think the reason Catcher in the Rye is so popular as a "favorite book" of people is because Holden is so easy to relate to. Even people who aren't all that similar to Holden Caulfield can relate to various aspects of his personality.

Of course, if the question is "falling in love" with a literary figure mine would have to be Julia from George Orwell's 1984. I know it's a little funny to get a "crush" on a fictional character from a book that you've only conceptualized in your head, but if I've ever done that Julia would have to be the one! haha

[markses]

24. Tyrone Slothrop

Gravity's Rainbow

[Hubert Flottz]

25. Candy!

Rubb-a-tub-dub!

[HuckleB]

26. Mariah Montana.

.

[Richardo]

27. Yossarian and Atticus Finch for sure...

Alice Liddell, Humpty Dumpty and the White Knight from "Alice in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass"

[Richardo]

33. ...and I'll add Philip Marlowe (post lunch brainstorm)

Raymond chandler :thumbsup:

[TrogL]

40. Yossarian would be almighty strange in bed

[Richardo]

42. Ask Nurse Duckett or Lt. Sheisskopf's wife...

THEY'D know. :evilgrin:

[Boudicea]

28. No votes for Ignatius Reilly?

[Rowdyboy]

31. I really thought about...

But he was so asexual...I really admired his exuberance, his swagger and his pomposity

[Boudicea]

32. And that hat, you mustn't forget the hat.

[Richardo]

34. I'd go with Burma Jones...

Wheee.

[catzies]

29. Natty Bumppo. Of the "Leatherstockting Tales" by J.F. Cooper

Straight Tongue...Pigeon...Lap Ear...Deerslayer...Hawkeye...La Longue Carabine...Pathfinder...Leatherstocking...Trapper...

[HEyHEY]

30. Clifford the big red dog

What can I say? I'm a siiickk fuck

[geniph]

35. Richard Sharpe!

no contest!

[supernova]

38. My fictional ancestor!

Richard Sharpe. Those are wonderful books. He's handsome, intelligent, wily even. But since he's a relative, it doesn't count for me.

For me, D'Artagnan was good. Great, I'm drawing a blank now.

[TrogL]

37. Friday

Heinlein

[XNASA]

39. Arwen

[dback]

41. Harriet M. Welsch

Of "Harriet the Spy." Not always nice, but ruthlessly, breathtakingly honest, and always human.

I think I also had a crush on John D., narrator of the "Great Brain" books.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

43. George Hayduke and the gang

of The Monkey Wrench Gang.
Gotta love em.