Strange Names!

[Maureen]

What is the strangest name you have come across as a name for a character in a book? Currently, I am reading a book and one of the characters is Miss Golightly. I found that funny!

[Janet]

Is that Dickens?

 

I've just read Life Swap (yawn) and Ms Green had a character in it called 'Hugh Janus'!

[Maureen]

No - I't Jigs and Reels, a collection of short stories by Joanne Harris.

[Janet]

I was thinking of 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' by Truman Capote - the lead character in that book is Holly Golightly!

[Sugar]

To pick up from some of Tigers reading list - Roald Dahl always used amusing names. Miss Trunchbull and the Wormwood's in Matilda. Weren't the characters in the Twit's called Mr and Mrs Twit?

[Kell]

One of my old buddies was writing a novel when I knew him (I wonder if he ever finished it?) & his hero was originally called Ezekial Catfruit. He eventually changed it to Jonathan Catfruit. We loved it so much that we named the band after him (just the last name - LOL!)

[Sarahrob]

I've just read Life Swap (yawn) and Ms Green had a character in it called 'Hugh Janus'!

 

I read that last night too!

 

Jasper Fforde's characters always have comedy names: Thursday Next, Jack Schitt, Landen Park-Laine etc.

[Maureen]

 

Jasper Fforde's characters always have comedy names: Thursday Next, Jack Schitt, Landen Park-Laine etc.

 

 

Yes, all the names in the Thursday NExt series are funny. (Her mother is called Wednesday Next )

[Weave]

In 'Abarat' by Clive Barker, the main character is called 'Candy Quackenbush' and her friend is called 'John Mischief'.

[Mia]

In the book I'm reading at the moment (Harlan Coben's The Innocent) there is a name so ridiculously stupid and unlikely that it actually jars me out of the story each time I see it - Cingle Shaker. This is a female, btw, in case you can't tell from the name! What possessed him?

[Kell]

Not from a book, but the woman who got called into her scan right before me was called Heidi Ho - I just almost died laughing!

[RedAlligator]

In Aunt Julia & The Scriptwriter there are two policeman characters and one is called: Apple Dumpling Arevalo and the other is Snotnose Camacho!

 

I queried these names with a Spanish friend who said that is not what the names are if its read in Spanish!

 

Didnt like the book much but those names made me laugh.

[Echo]

The was a family who went to our church whose last name was Person. Their daughters were Jolly and Merry. What hard names to live up to!

[happyanddandy]

One of the local Marie Curie night sitters is called Comfort - for real!!

[aromaannie]

You'll find she crops up in a few of his books - is she the ex female wrestler?

[Mia]

No, she's a private investigator. I think you're thinking of Esperanza (also known in her wrestling days as Little Pocahontas, I think!) from Coben's Myron Bolitar novels?

[Pilgrim]

Michael Connelly's character in his series was named after the artist Hieronymus (Harry) Bosch and I had a friend named April Schauer.

[supergran71]

Some of these names you have all mentioned have had me laughing out loud. I particularly liked "Heidi Ho" Kell - brilliant.

[Kell]

I believe you're talking about the Orangutan in Life of Pi. She was called Orange Juice, if I remember correctly.

[aromaannie]

No, she's a private investigator. I think you're thinking of Esperanza (also known in her wrestling days as Little Pocahontas, I think!) from Coben's Myron Bolitar novels?

 

 

You're half right I am getting mixed up with the Myron Bolitar novels but it's Esperanza friend I'm getting mixed up with, the one that she used to wrestle with. Maybe her name is something like Big Cindy

[Mia]

Oh yeah, Big Cindy, that's right!

[Laramie]

I always liked the name "Maninae"!!! From the Pellinor books. Heehee it makes me laugh cuz whenever I read it I sing it to that Galileo tune "maninae, maninae, maninae, maninae" *laughs*

 

There's a few in the Pellinor books. "Saliman" looks okay on the page, but try saying it out loud! It sounds really weird! "Maerad" - cool name, spelt oddly. It's pronounced "My-rad"