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02-22-2007, 03:03 PM
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All Time Favourite Character
Not sure if anyone's done a similiar thread in the past. If so, perhaps a mod could just whack this post onto it.
Anyway, does anyone have a single favourite character from a novel? I've been inspired to ask after re-reading A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving. And the title character is just amazing. Owen Meany is almost a dwarf, a poor boy from a granite mine. His voice is stuck in a "permanent scream" so all his dialogue is WRITTEN IN BLOCK CAPITALS. He ought to be ridiculous. But he elevates himself through his intelligence, his obstinancy, his sense of occasion and his unshakeable, and mystical, belief in God. And he becomes someone often inspiring and occasionally terrifying.
It's not my favourite novel ever. But in Owen Meany, Irving's created someone who is both a hero in every sense and also totally original.
Any other nominations.
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02-22-2007, 03:11 PM
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Captain Hook! He's a pirate that never sails, never wins (even though he fights children), and is afraid of clocks. What's not to love?
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02-22-2007, 03:19 PM
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Raistlin Majere from any of the Dragonlance novels, he is my hero, i hope some day i can be as mean as him. My religion is Raistianity.
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02-22-2007, 07:40 PM
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Mulch Diggums from the Artemis Fowl series
Edmond Dantes from The Count of Monte Cristo
Tris from The Circle of Magic series
Grunthor from The Symphony of Ages
Morgan la Fey (enough said)
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Grunthor broke into a gigantic grin. "Oh, goody! An' it ain't even my birthday! Thank you, sir." He proceeded back up the tunnel, whistling a merry tune. -The Assassin King, Chap. 47, pg. 415
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02-22-2007, 11:43 PM
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TS Garp from The World According to Garp
Barney Panofsky from Barney's Version
Saleem Sinai from Midnight's Children
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02-23-2007, 12:56 AM
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Scarlett O'Hara, Gone With the Wind
Lestat, The Vampire Chronicles
Eleanor of Aquitaine, When Christ and His Saints Slept
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02-23-2007, 10:00 AM
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Kilgore Trout
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02-23-2007, 03:41 PM
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trouts a good choice.
Duddy from The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (and others)
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02-23-2007, 04:40 PM
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Female - Virginia from Unconditional Surrender
Male - Shultz from Are you listening Rabbi Low
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02-23-2007, 08:36 PM
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Murtagh from Eragon
Bron from Eragon
They're awesome.
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02-23-2007, 09:58 PM
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Book from Ice Station
Mother from Ice Station
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02-24-2007, 02:39 AM
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The caterpillar with the hookah in Alice in Wonderland, followed by the crazy cat that disappears. Although after watching the movie last week I may reconisder because that scared me beyond reasonible belief.
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02-24-2007, 10:13 PM
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Some great ones mentioned already: Kilgore Trout and Owen Meaney.
I can't add one, but greats which come to mind are Raskolnikov, Winston Smith and Tom Joad, and, may as well say it before someone else does, Holden Caulfield.
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02-26-2007, 07:13 PM
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Inspector Bucket from Bleak House by Dickens comes to mind.
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02-26-2007, 08:08 PM
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Roland Deschain - The Gunslinger by Stephen King
Ryan Cawdor - Deathlands by James Axler
Conan - Novels and short stories by Robert E. Howard
Solomon Kane - Short stories, also by Howard
Phedre no Delaunay - Kushiel's Legacy by Jacqueline Carey
Cashel - Lord of the Isles series by David Drake
Harry Keogh - Necroscope by Brian Lumley
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