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1dancerinthedark
My favorite characters in literature are:
Cabesang Tales, El Filibusterismo
Holden Caulfield, The Catcher in the Rye
Jo March and Mrs. Bennet are close runners-up.
Cabesang Tales, El Filibusterismo
Holden Caulfield, The Catcher in the Rye
Jo March and Mrs. Bennet are close runners-up.
2smartsimpleton
Anne Shirley, Anne of Green Gables
Scout Finch, To Kill A Mockingbird
Mr. Collins, Pride and Prejudice (but ultimately adored when he was played to obsequiousness in the BBC series)
Ben Kincaid, Justice series (by William Bernhardt)
Scout Finch, To Kill A Mockingbird
Mr. Collins, Pride and Prejudice (but ultimately adored when he was played to obsequiousness in the BBC series)
Ben Kincaid, Justice series (by William Bernhardt)
3micketymoc
I'm on a naval fiction trip these days: gotta be Horatio Hornblower for me (ref CS Forester), or the dynamic duo of Aubrey and Maturin (ref Patrick O'Brian).
I hitched onto the Hornblower bandwagon because I'm a Trekkie, and all good Trekkies know that Gene Roddenberry pitched Star Trek to NBC TV executives as "Horatio Hornblower in space". Hornblower is the most insecure guy in the world, loathing himself for his self-perceived cowardliness and general unworthiness to command - therefore he pushes himself harder to excel. As a result, his men love him and follow him to the ends of the earth, but his inner insecurities never allow this to get to his head.
Aubrey-Maturin - the next logical step from Hornblower, because O'Brian's writing is so much more, what's the word for this, adult. Aubrey and Maturin are the classic odd couple. "Lucky Jack" Aubrey is a big, brash, towering Navy captain who's extremely capable at sea, but absolutely out of his depth on land. Stephen Maturin is his best friend, a ship's physician, a secret agent for the Crown, and as incompetent about nautical matters as Jack is about landlubberly ones. (Maturin's ignorance of seagoing matters is used very expertly by O'Brian to explain certain nautical terms to the reader.)
O'Brian's Aubrey books were the basis for the movie Master and Commander (basically a pastiche of different Aubrey-Maturin novels).
O'Brian is better at comedy than Forester (there's nothing that Aubrey likes more than a bad pun, and anybody who's read O'Brian is bound to be reduced to giggles by the phrase "debauched sloth"), but Forester is better-suited to the reader who's just starting out in the naval fiction department.
I hitched onto the Hornblower bandwagon because I'm a Trekkie, and all good Trekkies know that Gene Roddenberry pitched Star Trek to NBC TV executives as "Horatio Hornblower in space". Hornblower is the most insecure guy in the world, loathing himself for his self-perceived cowardliness and general unworthiness to command - therefore he pushes himself harder to excel. As a result, his men love him and follow him to the ends of the earth, but his inner insecurities never allow this to get to his head.
Aubrey-Maturin - the next logical step from Hornblower, because O'Brian's writing is so much more, what's the word for this, adult. Aubrey and Maturin are the classic odd couple. "Lucky Jack" Aubrey is a big, brash, towering Navy captain who's extremely capable at sea, but absolutely out of his depth on land. Stephen Maturin is his best friend, a ship's physician, a secret agent for the Crown, and as incompetent about nautical matters as Jack is about landlubberly ones. (Maturin's ignorance of seagoing matters is used very expertly by O'Brian to explain certain nautical terms to the reader.)
O'Brian's Aubrey books were the basis for the movie Master and Commander (basically a pastiche of different Aubrey-Maturin novels).
O'Brian is better at comedy than Forester (there's nothing that Aubrey likes more than a bad pun, and anybody who's read O'Brian is bound to be reduced to giggles by the phrase "debauched sloth"), but Forester is better-suited to the reader who's just starting out in the naval fiction department.
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My favorites are
Laura Castellano, Doctors
Tom Sullivan, Rule of Four
Bernie Rhodenbarr, Lawrence Block's "The Burglar..." series
Laura Castellano, Doctors
Tom Sullivan, Rule of Four
Bernie Rhodenbarr, Lawrence Block's "The Burglar..." series
5bastardmoon
Johnny Truant, House of Leaves
Irie, White Teeth
Iris Chase and her sister Laura (I still can't decide whose side I'm on), The Blind Assassin
Irie, White Teeth
Iris Chase and her sister Laura (I still can't decide whose side I'm on), The Blind Assassin
