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Bossy Monkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 02:55 AM
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Literary character(s) you've fallen in love with
I'm for Susila McPhail in "Island" by Aldous Huxley. How about you?
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Dookus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 03:04 AM
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1. Atticus Finch
from To Kill a Mockingbird
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VOX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 03:47 AM
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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.
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Sideways Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 03:56 AM
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3. Irving's Owen Meany
Adolph Ng in The Redundancy of Courage by Timothy Mo.

Just for starters.....
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 08:35 AM
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16. I'd rather have T.S. Garp
But that's just me!
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izzie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 04:33 AM
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4. Elizabeth Bennett, Mr Darcy and Mr Rochester I guess
:loveya:
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MaineDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 08:02 AM
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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.
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Boudicea Donating Member (452 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 11:08 AM
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20. Reading P&P now after trying unsuccessfully years ago
Edited on Tue Oct-14-03 11:09 AM by Boudicea
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.
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Khephra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 04:46 AM
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5. Hagbard Celine
The Illuminatus Trilogy
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VermontDem2004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 04:47 AM
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6. I love reading
but I never liked fiction books, I do enjoy reading non-fiction books though.
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OldEurope Donating Member (654 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 04:58 AM
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7. D´Artagnan.
Edited on Tue Oct-14-03 04:59 AM by OldEurope
was 11 when I read Dumas for the first time.
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Whitacre D_WI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 05:21 AM
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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.
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Rowdyboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 06:48 AM
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9. Lazarus Long...
From Robert Heinlein's works.
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Mikimouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 06:49 AM
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10. Roland DeShaines from Stephen King's
Dark Tower Series. Honorable and Just.
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Palacsinta Donating Member (929 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 07:20 AM
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11. Rhett Butler
I do give a damn!
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scarlet_owl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 07:24 AM
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12. The Grinch
Love that guy!
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theemu Donating Member (531 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 07:58 AM
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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
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markses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 11:13 AM
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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. ;-)
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Art_from_Ark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 08:10 AM
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15. O
as in "Story of"
:evilgrin:

Runner up-- Emmanuelle
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hippiechick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 08:41 AM
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17. Bernard Mickey Wrangle
('The Woodpecker' in Still Life With Woodpecker)


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


:hippie:
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 11:01 AM
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18. Kenny Becker in Richard Price's "Ladies Man"...
but, then again, I'm a narcissist
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qwertyMike Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 11:02 AM
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19. Horse Badorties
The FAN MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Boudicea Donating Member (452 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 11:12 AM
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21. Colonel Aureliano Buendia, 100 Yrs of Solitude
I would have gladly had his bastard children, as every young woman did in the novel. :)
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bif Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 11:13 AM
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22. Holden Caulfield
I can relate to him in a lot of ways.
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last_texas_dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 01:22 PM
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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
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markses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 11:14 AM
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24. Tyrone Slothrop
Gravity's Rainbow
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 11:16 AM
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25. Candy!
Rubb-a-tub-dub!
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HuckleB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 11:18 AM
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26. Mariah Montana.
.
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 11:23 AM
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27. Yossarian and Atticus Finch for sure...
Alice Liddell, Humpty Dumpty and the White Knight from "Alice in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass"
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 01:00 PM
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33. ...and I'll add Philip Marlowe (post lunch brainstorm)
Raymond chandler :thumbsup:
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TrogL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 02:21 PM
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40. Yossarian would be almighty strange in bed
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 02:40 PM
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42. Ask Nurse Duckett or Lt. Sheisskopf's wife...
THEY'D know. :evilgrin:
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Boudicea Donating Member (452 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 11:55 AM
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28. No votes for Ignatius Reilly?
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Rowdyboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 12:28 PM
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31. I really thought about...
But he was so asexual...I really admired his exuberance, his swagger and his pomposity
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Boudicea Donating Member (452 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 12:31 PM
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32. And that hat, you mustn't forget the hat.
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 01:03 PM
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34. I'd go with Burma Jones...
Wheee.
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catzies Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 12:00 PM
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29. Natty Bumppo. Of the "Leatherstockting Tales" by J.F. Cooper
Straight Tongue...Pigeon...Lap Ear...Deerslayer...Hawkeye...La Longue Carabine...Pathfinder...Leatherstocking...Trapper...
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 12:02 PM
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30. Clifford the big red dog
What can I say? I'm a siiickk fuck
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geniph Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 01:10 PM
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35. Richard Sharpe!
no contest!
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supernova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 01:28 PM
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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.
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TrogL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 01:25 PM
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37. Friday
Heinlein
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XNASA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 02:10 PM
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39. Arwen
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dback Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 02:27 PM
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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.
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WannaJumpMyScooter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 03:04 PM
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43. George Hayduke and the gang
of The Monkey Wrench Gang.
Gotta love em.
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