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Post by Deleted on Dec 26, 2009 10:45:36 GMT
I know I have many,and when thought of this idea for a thread had a list,but now forgot most of. Will recall I'm sure.
Most definitely on my list was Atticus Finch from Harper Lee's "To Kill A Mockingbird"
Oh, and Clea from Lawrence Durrell's "The Alexandria Quartet"
Who are some of yours (can be minor as well as major)?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 26, 2009 15:32:24 GMT
Ferdinand Bardamu in Céline's works is unforgettable to me. Marlow, in Heart of Darkness, would be a close relation to him.
Mycroft Holmes, the computer in Robert Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, deeply marked my adolescence.
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Post by lola on Dec 26, 2009 21:16:56 GMT
I used to have a big crush on Mycroft's little brother Sherlock. (Over it now.)
Off the top of head:
Jane Austen's Mr. Collins, Mrs. Elton, Lady Catherine, and Mrs. Bennett. They would make an amusing bridge table.
Lord Peter Wimsey. Rumpole. Huck Finn.
Stephen Maturin, though of the two I'd rather hang out with Jack Aubrey.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 26, 2009 21:58:34 GMT
A new favorite is Lisbeth Salander, of the Millennium trilogy.
Ursula, in Hundred Years of Solitude.
Elvis Cole, the detective, and his partner Joe Pike.
Jack Reacher, also a detective.
I'll have to return to this thread, as I know I'll think of more.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 27, 2009 11:51:00 GMT
Yes,most certainly Huck Finn (as a serious tomboy,shunned the stereotypical girl heroines with exception of Nancy Drew but even she was too girly).
And another regional character,Ignatius O'Reilly from "Confederacy of Dunces"
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Post by lola on Dec 30, 2009 2:56:19 GMT
Pippi Longstocking. Gollum. Bertam Wooster.
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Post by hwinpp on Jan 6, 2010 7:57:31 GMT
D'Artagnan and Athos! I never liked Aramis and Porthos seemed too buffoonish.
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Post by BigIain on Feb 16, 2010 17:53:55 GMT
Jack Reacher is a very addictive character. I only read my first on elast summer and seem to like the style of those books. I am put off a bit by the "Men want to be him" slogans that seems to accompany Lee Child's creation everywhere now.
I also love the Reebus character in his books. Being an Edinburger myself its very wasy to identify the locations in the books and to feel like you are walking or driving around with Reebus as he goes about his work. There are also a few traits that he posesses which I can identify with too!
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 16, 2010 18:29:07 GMT
 on the slogan! I didn't know about that. The books don't have to be read in sequence, but I think they're better that way. Wow -- thanks for what you said about Rankin's character. He is one of those authors that I was saving for "later". People rave about him, but I've never gotten clear direction on where to start. Based on your recommendation, especially that you say it's all authentic, I'm going to start. As far as I can tell, the list at the bottom of this page has the books in order, starting with Knots & Crosses.
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Post by livaco on Feb 16, 2010 20:27:30 GMT
(as a serious tomboy,shunned the stereotypical girl heroines with exception of Nancy Drew but even she was too girly) Caddie Woodlawn was my favorite "tomboy" as a kid. And Pippi Longstocking, too. Another favorite character was Francie Nolan from A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. I always felt I could relate to her. And I second Lisbeth Salander, too.... |
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Post by imec on Feb 16, 2010 22:05:59 GMT
George Smiley
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Post by BigIain on Feb 17, 2010 13:39:21 GMT
Bixa.... yes Knots and Crosses is the first one. After the first couple, when the character and his life has been introduced, they can be done in order. Like I am doing with Jack Reacher and did in the past with Dave Robichoux. BTW I have no desire to be like Mr Dave!!!
If there are enough readers of Reebus on here I shall post some pics of his habitual haunts like I did elsewhere in the past. Places like the street where he lives and suchlike.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2010 14:22:11 GMT
I would love to be one of the insufferable louts that Miss Marple sometimes encounters, as long as I am not the murderer. (Then again, don't the insufferable louts always get knocked off before the end as well?)
Oh, but one of my top favorite characters -- Patricia Highmith's Ripley, except for his seemingly normal home life in the later books.
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Post by lola on Feb 17, 2010 15:37:22 GMT
What does Ripley do in the later books, generally? The first book was a hair too creepy for me. oops. modify to spoiler mode. The movie gets too sad after Dickie and Freddie are snuffed. Empowered Girls Jo March, Scarlett O'Hara, Betsy Ray, Becky Sharp (from the Novel Without a Hero Vanity Fair) |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2010 15:44:25 GMT
Oh, Ripley always has to kill a few people; it's in his nature. He's always nervous about it, though, which makes him a more sympathetic killer than all of those murderers with nerves of steel.
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Post by lola on Feb 17, 2010 15:49:21 GMT
Does he settle down with a nice girl/guy and kill fewer people then?
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 17, 2010 16:44:51 GMT
Oh ~~ that reminds me of another favorite character: John Keller, of Hit Man. Does anyone know this book by Lawrence Block? He is not another Ripley, but the complicated ethics and motivations make this book interesting and fun. I just looked it up to check my spelling, and see that there were many more books about Keller: www.lawrenceblock.com/books_keller.htmOh boy! |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2010 18:29:44 GMT
Does he settle down with a nice girl/guy and kill fewer people then? He is happily married and lives in or around Fontainebleau. But he is more or less of a contract killer. |
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on the slogan! I didn't know about that. The books don't have to be read in sequence, but I think they're better that way.
