CONFESS! Who is your favorite literary character?

[SidneyCarton]

(Well, only if you want to...)

I actually can't limit it to one, so feel free to add as many as you like.

Gurney Halleck - Dune
Sherlock Holmes
Davram Bashere - Wheel of Time Series
Edmond Dantes - The Count of Monte Cristo
Hamlet

And of course...

Sydney Carton - A Tale of Two Cities

[av8rdave]

1. Kilgore Trout - appears in many Vonnegut books

[geardaddy]

43. I absolutely concur.

along with Eliot Rosewater.

[Are_grits_groceries]

2. Ignatius J. Reilly ...

The Wheel of Fortuna is moving as we post.

[bluedeminredstate]

3. OMG I love him!

My valve is closing just thinking about him and Myrna that minx!

I love David Copperfield and Owen Meany.

[Heidi]

9. He might be my second most beloved literary character.

LOVE him. :thumbsup:

[EastTennesseeDem]

45. Another resounding agreement

:applause:

[KamaAina]

84. The only one I've been compared to personally

by an authentic New Orleanian, no less.

Meanwhile, Mom never was able to finish 'Dunces", 'cause Ignatius reminder her too much of her only son...

[mitchum]

4. Lucifer, Huckleberry Finn, Emma Bovary, and Kenny Becker from...

Richard Price's "Ladies Man"

[Tyrone Slothrop]

5. Phillip Marlowe, probably

Though I'm also a big fan of Leopold Bloom and my namesake...

[Lethe]

97. his dialog and mannerisms are great

Phillip Marlowe, i mean.

[HopeHoops]

6. Gandalf

[TZ]

7. This is gonna sound weird but

Grendel..Not Beowulf's Grendel, but from the novel Grendel by John Gardner. Very interesting and complex character.

[SidneyCarton]

10. My wife has read Grendel, I have not.

Though I intend to someday, from what she said, it sounded fascinating.

[Heidi]

8. Atticus Finch, hands down. (nt)

[SidneyCarton]

11. How could I forget Atticus Finch?

One of the greatest without a doubt.

[elleng]

92. Was gonna say

GREGORY PECK!!!

[Are_grits_groceries]

12. Boo Radley would be 2nd for me. nt

[insanity]

13. Jean Valjean

A few others:
Tyler Durden- Fight Club
Billy Pilgrim - Slaughter-House Five
Jay Gatsby- Great Gatsby
Bokonon- Cat's Craddle

[SidneyCarton]

15. Good old Jean Valjean

Nothing like a good redemption story.

[raccoon]

14. The Time Traveller, Huck Finn, Atticus Finch. nt

[bif]

16. Holden Caulfield

[Jamastiene]

47. Seconded.

[3.14158675309]

72. Thirded

[MorningGlow]

17. Elizabeth Bennett

She is one IN CHARGE chick. Some failings, to be sure, but overall she kicks ass. And she has a sense of humor.

[SidneyCarton]

20. Mrs. Carton would agree!

Even if when she took the Austen character quiz, she came up Eleanor Dashwood.

[MorningGlow]

26. Dang it you made me go take an Austen quiz

And I came up...Lizzy!! I had to take a tie-breaker question, though. I also could have been Marianne Dashwood. :)

[Lavender Brown]

62. I always get Anne Elliot or Marianne

Who are total opposites. But I guess they're better than Fanny Price. :P

[LanternWaste]

18. Horatio Hornblower

Horatio Hornblower from the literary series of the same name by C.S. Forester.

[tigereye]

19. I would have said Stillgar for Dune!

Dalziel and Pascoe in the series of the same name, although I like Pascoe's wife a lot as well.

Chee and Lt Leaphorn in the Tony Hillerman series

Female protagonists in many of Barbara Kingsolver's novels


Various narrators from Russian and other literary classics ...

[SidneyCarton]

21. So many fascinating characters in Dune, difficult to choose just one.

But Stilgar is one of the greats.

[Dr. Strange]

22. Leto Atreides II

Repairman Jack
Dexter Morgan
TZ
Thomas C. Flood

[TZ]

24. I'm a literary character now? ROFL

Nice post, God Emperor...

[Dr. Strange]

33. I read about you all the time in the Lounge Series.

Your adventures with B² make for some fun reading.

[KamaAina]

85. Not according to Wiki, but...

...you might be a chemical weapon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz

TZ may refer to:

The Twilight Zone
time zone
Sony Vaio TZ
the tz database
the IATA code for ATA Airlines
a ligature of 't' and 'z' was a single letter in the Colonial orthography of the Yucatec Maya language<1>
TZ, The chemical weapon designation of the United States military for saxitoxin, a bacterial sodium channel blocker
the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Tanzania
Transformation Zone, in cervical cancer, the area of the cervix where dysplasia and abnormal cell growth occur.

Agent Mike, call Homeland Security at once! :scared:

[SidneyCarton]

27. Why does it not shock me that you would choose the God-Emperor of the Known Universe

Which, I might add, is the coolest title I've ever seen in literature.

[Dr. Strange]

32. Greatest character ever!

Even Lucas tried to rip it off.

[SidneyCarton]

35. Fascinating, and somewhat tragic at the same time.

One of these days I will have to read GEoD again, I read it as a teenager and really didn't get it.

[southpaw]

23. The Snopes family

Flem is probably my favorite individual, but the whole family is fascinating/revolting/hilarious.


Nick Carraway, who narrates 'The Great Gatsby,' has been a long-time favorite.


Severus Snape... yeah. Snape rules.

[SidneyCarton]

28. Alas, Snape...

The Tragic hero of Harry Potter.

[mitchum]

41. Good call on the Snopes family...

my favorite is Montgomery Ward Snopes (that's just hilarious), although I ripped off Mink Snopes' first name during my punk rock days

[cemaphonic]

66. hmm, Severus Snopes?

[southpaw]

68. In the Post-Potter generations of that liniage

doubtless such a thing would exist.

From the family that bought you Wallstreet Panic Snopes...


Even worse... Snape Snopes.

[lost-in-nj]

25. Jim Chee

cause he is so naive, yet smart....


and Mrs. DeWinter

no not Rebecca
the one with no name


the second wife

and Piggy from Lord of the Flies

I cried my eyes out





lost

[SidneyCarton]

29. Poor Piggy.

I had to read LOTF my sophmore year of High School... Changed my views forever on High School. :scared:

[Lyric]

30. I'm an English major. I don't need to prove my literature cred.

I vote for Tyrion Lannister.

:hi:

[SidneyCarton]

31. I'm a History Major, so I must admit that I am out of my depth here...

Who is Tyrion Lannister?

:hi:

[Lyric]

38. Some info:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrion_Lannister#Tyrion

[SidneyCarton]

39. A fascinating character.

Complex, tragic and yet not a victim by any stretch of the imagination.

[DeepBlueC]

50. dupe

[yellowdogintexas]

57. a highly commendable choice.

I was just debating which Martin character to post.

edited to add: English major also.

[Lyric]

67. Yes, in terms of complexity and character development, Tyrion

is the best of them, IMHO. Not to say that some of the others aren't close; Cersei Lannister, Arya Stark, and Jon Snow are all fantastic characters, too. Just not quite as well fleshed-out as Tyrion is.

:hi:

[yellowdogintexas]

91. did you see the post further down? #48 I think

another Tyrion fan

[LostinVA]

34. Reepicheep

[SidneyCarton]

36. Good old Reep.

I loved the Chronicles of Narnia growing up, The wife and I just watched Prince Caspian the other night, and seeing Reepicheep was like seeing an old friend.

[LanternWaste]

52. You sweet talker, you...

You sweet talker, you.

(This is the one I've picked for the, um... you know. :blush: More details as they happen :) )


Dawn Treader-- directed by Michael Apted (7 Up series, Nell, Gorky Park), screenplay by Richard LaGravenese (Horse Whisperer, Paris, je t'aime, The Fisher King), release date: Christmas, 2010!

[sammythecat]

37. First thought: Robin Hood

Howard Pyle's "The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood". I wore that book out when I was a kid. In fact, just a few nights ago, I went looking for another copy I bought about 20 years ago.

It's around here somewhere but I couldn't find it. :-(

His buddy (cousin?) Will Scarlett was pretty cool too.

[two gun sid]

40. Raoul Duke

[Lucian]

42. Tyrion Lannister

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrion_Lannister#Tyrion

[LeftyMom]

101. .

:thumbsup:

[Spacemom]

44. Lazarus Long

I'm still waiting for him to swoop down in Dora and take me to the stars. :D

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

46. #1 is Stephen Maturin

from the Patrick O'Brian Aubrey/Maturin books (Read em all. Twice).

Hannibal Lecter (read the books, the movies ain't canon and are a fraction of the character's complexity no matter how good Hopkins is, and he is GREAT)
Reginald Jeeves and Bertie Wooster
Steerpike and Fuschia Groan (M. Peake's Gormenghast trilogy)
Frodo and Bilbo Baggins
Harry Potter, Severus Snape and Albus Dumbledore
James Bond

[RedCloud]

48. Alonso Quijano

aka Don Quixote

[LibertyLover]

49. Richard Sharpe, Captain Horatio Hornblower,

Doc Savage, Renny Renwick, Ham Brooks, Monk Mayfair, Jonny Littlejohn, Long Tom Roberts, Patricia Savage, Harry Potter, all the Weasleys, Hermione and Sean, Lord Derry.

[DeepBlueC]

51. Becky Sharp

Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray

[triguy46]

53. George Smiley. Mohan Biswas. Scout Finch.

[dana_b]

54. Tom Joad n/t

[BlueIris]

55. Smilla Jasperson (Peter Hoeg's "Smilla's Sense of Snow"). nt

[rug]

56. Bartleby

[yellowdogintexas]

58. the Scrivener? Really?

I hated that story so much.

[rug]

61. I prefer it.

[southpaw]

70. Bartleby was fascinating, wasn't he?

[rug]

78. Yes, where did he come from, what happened to him?

Did he know what he was saying in the Tombs when he said "I know where I am."?

He strikes me as someone stripped of all delusion.

[bif]

59. The little girl from "The Elegance of the Hedgehog"

I thought she was incredible. I'd love to have her as my daughter.

[yellowdogintexas]

60. Francis Lymond Crawford of Scotland

from the Dorothy Dunnett novels, and Nicolas from her other series.

Midnight Louie
Precious Ramotswe (#1 Ladie's Detective Agency)
Sano Ichiro, Medieval Japanese Detective
Hermoine
Lincoln Rhyme
tossup between Stephanie Plum and Lulu her sidekick.

[qwertyMike]

63. The Fan Man n/t

[book lady]

64. Jane Eyre

[pokerfan]

65. Zaphod Beeblebrox (Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy)

Yossarian (Catch 22)
Owen Meany (A Prayer for Owen Meany)
Gully Foyle (The Stars My Destination)
William Mandella (The Forever War)
Manuel Garcia (Moon is a Harsh Mistress)
Gandalf the Grey (Lord of the Rings)

[southpaw]

69. How could I have forgotten Zaphod?

Man, I totally lost track of my towel for a moment.

[tinymontgomery]

71. Horatio Hornblower

By C. S. Forester

[MissMillie]

73. Owen Meany

John Irving is the king of the quirky character.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

75. I'd still like to see a real film adaptation of "Owen Meany"

All we got was the "inspired by" watered down PG Hallmark Hall of Fame "Simon Birch", which doesn't really count at all.

[Beer Snob-50]

76. i have got to agree with this!

although the last john irving novel i read about the journalist who lost his hand when it was chomped by a lion is another one of my favs for some reason.

[GCP]

79. Owen's my favorite too

What a wonderful character.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

74. Governor Clinton "Skink" Tyree from Carl Hiassen novels....

....the ideal honest politician whose environmental policies while governor got the big special interests together to railroad him out of the governor's mansion. Going into hiding, he went into seclusion in the Everglades, living off of wild animals and road kill. He wears a raincoat and has long hair and a braided beard, but amazingly still has the perfect set of teeth that helped get him elected governor.

When I've driven over the Card Sound Bridge going into the Florida Keys, I've actually thought to myself that I might see him, forgetting for a moment that he is just a fictional character.

I'd love to see him portrayed in a movie adaptation of one of Hiaasen books, but I don't know what actor could master him. Unfortunately, Hiaasen's literary genius is somewhat hard to translate onto film (case in point: "Strip Tease")

[MissHoneychurch]

77. You have to ask?

:)

[ismnotwasm]

80. Pyanfar Chanur

From The Chanur saga by C.J. Cherryh.

I also love Lauren Olamina in "Parable of the Sower" by Octavia Butler.

And I gotta give props to "Jack the Bodiless" by Julian May. A literal talking head. Or brain, rather.

[NMDemDist2]

81. Sissy Hankshaw

google it :evilgrin:

[Ivan Sputnik]

82. I can't make up my mind about that....

maybe Hamlet?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

83. Lord Peter Wimsey.

[CTyankee]

86. Scout, in "To Kill a Mockingbird" and Holly Golightly in "Breakfast at Tiffany's" are two.

Oh, so many women...

[Doc_Technical]

87. Corporal Popinjay

Catch 22

http://kathy1981.buzznet.com/user/journal/59205/tribute-favorite-joseph-heller-catch/

[MrScorpio]

88. Bond, James Bond

The one and only

[Brother Buzz]

89. Travis McGee

A salvage consultant that takes retirement in installments. Travis McGee had the right idea.

[Forkboy]

90. Kilgore Trout, Sherlock Holmes or Fletch.

[libodem]

93. Stephanie Plum

her stories are light and funny with just enough sex and drama to make it interesting.

[seaker]

94. Jo March

[fed_up_mother]

95. Elizabeth Bennett, Jean Valjean, and Jo Marsh

in Little Women. :)

[friedgreentomatoes]

96. 3

Miss. Jane Marple
Tintin
Sherlock Holmes

among many others.............

[Lethe]

98. Randle P McMurphy

or Chief Bromden

either

[ashling]

99. Huckleberry Finn

Ivanhoe
Augustus McRae & Woodrow Call from Lonesome Dove (actually, most of the characters from Lonesome Dove)

[enigmatic]

100. Larry Darrell from Somerset Maugham's "The Razer's Edge"

Not even close, either. I'm still waiting for the definative film version of the book, though I don't see it happening anytime soon. I would have loved to have seen a young William Holden play Larry on film:

[surrealAmerican]

102. Wemmick from Great Expectations and Lemuel Gulliver