your Favorite Lit. Figure
 

Wife of Bath - no contest.


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Herman Hesse, as himself, in everything he wrote.

Jubal Harshaw

T. S. Garp (World According To) and/or Homer Wells (Cider House Rules)

Biggles

Yossarian (Catch-22) is up there, as is Rincewind (Diskworld), but I'd have to say...

Bean. Ender's Game/Ender's Shadow.

I'm not really sure why, either. There's just something about him I adore.

re: the above.

Re; god, you're all freaks...

(silent realization)

Where the hell was he, when I needed him last Saturday?

Saturdays he has tea with Ginger and Algeron

Mike Smith or Lazarus Long.

Lazarus Long was just a dirty old man..... (ok, dirty, very old man)

So, we all need someone we can relate to.

Richard Sharpe is pretty cool

Oh, and i totally wanna nail Ayla

I liked that character but I read that book during a bad time in relationship...

Charlie and the two siblings from The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Wolf Larson from Sea Wolf
Lily, her nanny, the aunts, and Lily's boyfriend from The Secret Lives of Bees

I have so many! /cry

Master Robinton - from the Pern series
Merry and Pippin - from LOTR
Lord Morgan - The Deryni Chronicles
Bob Cratchit - A Christmas Carol

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

yeah, I'd go with Falstaff - an honest-to-goodness out-and-out rogue.....

you knew where you stood with him, and kept a close eye on your granny.

Changing mine... Caliban.

It's a great book. That will make a good present.

Its a pair for me.. Lennie and George

Well, if you ever come out to the Boston area, you can drive to West Newbury, Mass. and see the real town hall that is pictured in the book.

I also :heartpump Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.

But, only if they are Dead.

This could be a very, very long list.

Some highlights (which is my way of saying these are the ones that sprung to mind first):

Burke, from the series of books by Andrew Vachss
Willy Wonka
Mowgli from Kipling's Jungle Books
Black Beauty
Jane Eyre
Menolly from Anne McCaffrey's Pern books
Jaelle n'ha Melora from Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover
Sam, the kid from My Side of the Mountain
Paul Atreides, but only the first book. It was all downhill after Dune, some books sliding more rapidly than others.
Sherlock Holmes. How can you not like Holmes?

I have spent a lot of time in the world of Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee, but I can't say that they've ever made it to the level of "favorite," just familiar.

John Galt

Somehow I knew that.

I'm about 3/4s way through 1984, and I've fallen in love with Winston.

SANITY IS NOT STATISTICAL.

It's a double plus good read, eh?

Lately, I'm identifying more with Reardon.