Come on, Brianna. You can't convince me you're only now figuring this out! :3eye:

So who is mine? Hmmm. If it's the one I like the most it may be Miles Vorkosigan. Or Lord Vetinari from the Discworld books. Oh, I guess Horace Rumpole would be up there too. If it's the one I identify with most strongly, probably William Henry Devereaux, Jr. (from Straight Man by Richard Russo).

In my yoot it was J.P. Donleavy's protagonists, lately the only literary characters I sepnd much time with and like are Frog and Toad, and of course Squirell Nutkin.

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Squirell Nutkin?

Lady Sharrow from Iain M Banks' Against a Dark Background
Lucifer Box from Mark Gatiss' The Vesuvious Club
Thursday Next from Jasper Fforde's The Eyre Affair series

How disappointing that having started a programme of reading the classics, all my characters are from books less than 10 years old!

Gregor Samsa
Scout
Jane Eyre
Ligeia

Porthos

Lazarus Long, from Time Enough To Love, in a landslide.

Others I admire, identify with, enjoy traveling with, etc.

Job, from the book of Job. The narrator, the widower of Lenore, in The Raven. Roland, from the Dark Tower series. There are others.

Mike Mulligan

Mary Anne has better character development.

Owen Meany

Arthur Dent
Willy Wonka

Not two hours ago I bought that book for my nephews birthday this weekend.

Talk about your synchronicity.

Really? I love the book, but I'm not sure I'd trust Old Buddy Boy.

Aragorn