Favorite Literary Characters?

[blakjeezis]

So we've done books, and we've done authors. All that's left is your favorite characters, main or secondary, from any books or stories that you've read.

Arthur Dent, Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Wonderfully clueless and confused traveling across the universe, but somehow his innocence and ignorance coupled with his sharp wit save him.

Bartleby, Bartleby the Scrivener - Weird, kooky, rebellious without being defiant, and a reminder of the isolation that we can all force upon ourselves, "I'd prefer not to."

And my all-time favorite character: Iago, Othello - Some people go bad; Hannibal Lechter, Patrick Bateman(maybe), Saruman. None go 'Iago' bad. The prototypical, archetypical bad guy, he represents every dark urge of the human psyche. Whether he's a jealous friend, a disgruntled office seeker, or a jilted lover, we may never know, but he goes sooooooo off the deep end, it's just awesome.

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[JPMNICK]

i was going to say Dent!! I just re-read that last month. One of my all time favorite books.

There was a book I read for the first time in 4th grade, and then re-read it through the years. It was called my My Side of the mountain. The kids name was Sam Gribley . he ran away from home to live by him self in the catskill mountains. The sotry is about how he learns to survive and how he does it. he finds a baby hawk and trains it to hunt for him. he lives in a hollowed out tree. He was just an awesome charector to learn about as I was growing up.

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[Recyclerz]

Cool topic.

My vote goes for - Ignatius J. Reilly

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[Furtherman]

Judge Holden from Blood Meridian.

The baddest, meanist, strangest bloodthirsty motherf'er I've ever read about. Thinking about seeing him walking down the street scares me.

If you haven't read Blood Meridian, I suggest you do.

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Henry Chinaski.

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Tom Sawyer

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Miss Zarves from the Wayside School books. She teaches on the nineteenth floor...there is no nineteenth floor.

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[badorties]

Tom Sawyer


never forgave him for killing the pacing of huck finn ...

and i vote for richard iii as the best literary badass



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[TheMojoPin]

Oh, man. GREAT topic...

My favorite? By far, Yossarian from Joseph Heller's "Catch-22." Too smart to die, but not smart enough to find a way out...

Yossarian says, "You're talking about winning the war, and I am talking about winning the war and keeping alive."
"Exactly," Clevinger snapped smugly. "And which do you think is more important?"
"To whom?" Yossarian shot back. "It doesn't make a damn bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead."
"I can't think of another attitude that could be depended upon to give greater comfort to the enemy."
"The enemy," retorted Yossarian with weighted precision, "is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on."

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[DarkHippie]

Humbert Humbert: best villian, best hero, just the most complex, disturbing, and ultimately real character ever created.

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[JustJon]

Ender Wiggins. I just identified so well with him the first time I read it.

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[furie]

Dr. Laszlo Kreizler from The Alienist
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[Jack_Doff]

Victor Mancini from Choke. He's just such an unapologetic scumbag, it's great. Picking up chicks at sex addict meetings and stuff like that.

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[Se7en]

Sherlock fucking Holmes.

RECOGNIZE, bitches.

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Pop

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Nick Adams from the Hemingway stories, especially "The Big Two-Hearted River."

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atticus finch- TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD

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Pudd'nhead Wilson
Philip Marlowe

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Elliot Rosewater



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[phixion]

Ender Wiggins. I just identified so well with him the first time I read it.


jonny boy you impress me. i concur wiht ender, a brotehr who is sadistic as hell and a sister who is a saint, and he's the mix of the two, yeah thats my family life. although i would throw in miro from ender's sequels, and enders parents from beans trilogy.

biff from lamb i never laughed out loud so many times from reading.

feste from twefth night is another great character.

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Before the crappy movies with rotating actors; I loved the early Clancy books, and Jack Ryan ruled. They got pretty close with Patriot Games, but...

The Old Man in The Old Man and The Sea. cant remember what they called him, just the Old Man?

Stu Redman in King's The Stand

Well done with Yosarrian in Catch-22; a Classic, and a trippy film treatment with alan arkin, i think.

Atticus of course.

Garp in John Irving's The World According to... and I think Robin Williams peaked right then, to de-rail.

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[BoondockSaint]

The Old Man in The Old Man and The Sea. cant remember what they called him, just the Old Man?


Santiago.

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[Alice S. Fuzzybutt]

GREAT topic!

Heathcliff from Wuthering Heights. So angry, so conflicted.

Holden Caufield.

Alex De Large.

And, of course, Atticus.

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[grlNIN]

Holden Caufield.


I'll see your Holden and raise you Seymour Glass.

And Lestat from the Anne Rice chronicles.

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[DarkHippie]

After just now finishing "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay" I think Joe Kavalier moves to the top of my list.

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Artemis Entreri

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[reeshy]

One of my favorite characters is Captain Ahab....love that book !!!!!

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[Alice S. Fuzzybutt]

Lestat from the Anne Rice chronicles.


No, Louis. He's my dream date... then again I always pictured Peter Murphy when I read her books.

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[ADF]

Good call on Nick Adams.

I'd have to go with Stephen Dedalus.

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[ChickenHawk]

I'll see your Holden and raise you Seymour Glass.

Hey, I remember Seymour Glass! Didn't they win the Rock 'N Ribs contest?

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[furie]

since i read everyone's responces, do you people count as Literary Characters?


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[Tazz]

Mick Foley......I hate fiction.

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[Freebird]

Favorite literary characters, bar none:

Calvin
Hobbes

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[TheMojoPin]

Before the crappy movies with rotating actors; I loved the early Clancy books, and Jack Ryan ruled. They got pretty close with Patriot Games, but...

Man, I was such a nerd and was reading those books when I was 12. His first, maybe, five in the series are fantastic. It was all downhill from there.

I still think only Baldwin nailed the character. Harrison Ford wasn't even close. Since when was he that old?

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[blakjeezis]

biff from lamb i never laughed out loud so many times from reading.

I literally had to put the book down a couple of times to wipe away the tears. I was sitting in Washington Square Park, waiting for some friends and just bent double with laughter. Yes, I was one of 'those people' that passing tourists point out and talk about in hushed tones. And then an Anti-Bush rally came walking down the street. It was a very weird afternooon. Although I'm pretty sure there's probably an Anti Bush rally everyday going past the park.

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[Mike Teacher]

I still think only Baldwin nailed the character.


100% agreed. I have a love/hate relationship with the Red October, the movie was pretty damn good, but the book is a Masterpiece. A military novel so good and so well researched that people thought it might have really happened, and Clancy was spinning a tale of half-fiction and half-what happened once upon a time.

Baldwin was most definately Jack Ryan.

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Since I love to read historical fiction novels about English monarchy, my favorite characters (who actually existed) are as follows:

Queen Elizabeth I
King Henry VIII
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Anne Boleyn
Mary Queen of Scotts


My favorite Arthurian characters are:
Morgan
Guenivere
Lancelot
and of course
Arthur

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Guy Montag-Fahrenheit 451

Rob-High Fidelity

Patrick Bateman-American Psycho(only because I love to hate him)

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[TheMojoPin]

I still think only Baldwin nailed the character.


100% agreed. I have a love/hate relationship with the Red October, the movie was pretty damn good, but the book is a Masterpiece. A military novel so good and so well researched that people thought it might have really happened, and Clancy was spinning a tale of half-fiction and half-what happened once upon a time.

Baldwin was most definately Jack Ryan.

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Damn. I gotta read "October" again. I think I read it 5 or 6 times when I first got it, but it's been a good 8 years or so since the last time I tackled it. And you're right...it's THAT good.

And even though it's an earlier book of his, and less "refined," I always wanted to see "Red Storm Rising" made into a decent film.

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[BoondockSaint]

Dr. Gonzo
Jerry Renault from The Chocolate War.

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