Top 5 Favourite Characters

[missybct]

Atticus Finch has to be #1 for me.

George Milton in Mice of Men.

 

Others change all the time!

[Nicola Booth]

Not necessarily in this order: -

 

1. Ron Weasley Harry Potter Books

2. Harry Bosch Michael Connelly Books

3. Jacob Black Twilight Series

4. Rebecca Bloomwood Shopaholic Series

5. Holly P.S. I love you

[ClaireW]

My list at the moment:

 

Crowley - Good Omens

Marquis de Carabas - Neverwhere

Lyra - His Dark Materials

Lucifer Box - Lucifer Box novels

Sirius Black - Harry Potter

[BookJumper]

Crowley - Good Omens

'He had been quite pleased with Manchester... !'

[Nicola]

Marquis de Carabas - Neverwhere

 

Good choice!

[poppyshake]

Elizabeth Bennett

Albus Dumbledore

Anne Shirley

Scout Finch

Gwenni Morgan (the Earth Hums in B Flat)

[pickle]

wow good list topic...

 

hmm

 

Mr Rochester: always brooding and enigmatic

Charlie Parker: from the John Connolly tortured soul

Jack Parlabane : Christopher Brookmeyer always witty and sharp comebacks

Sherlock Holmes: intellegence

Nanny Ogg: for a bit of light relief

[Pablo]

"Tyler Durden (Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk). His utopian vision is crazy but has some valuable points in my opinion."

There's a lot of Tyler Durden in me (for good or worse), and I'm not sure what it says about me, but I like his vision, and would swap this reality for his any day that ends in a Y, so yeah (nodding), good character.

 

To be honest, Pi from Yann Martel's 'Life Of Pi' is the only character who really springs to mind for me.

[Vladd]

Off the top of my head I would say

Sherlock Holmes

Edward - the Anita Blake books

Death - The discworld

Harry Dresden - The Dresden Files

and finally because my kids love it so much I have to read it so often

The Mouse - The Gruffalo

[Ilona]

This is inevitably going to change, but:

 

Raoul Duke - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and others (Thompson)

Howard W. Cambell, Jr. - Mother Night (Vonnegut)

The Grim Reaper - The Book Thief (Zusak)

The Ruler of the Universe - Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Adams)

Lord Henry Wotton - The Picture of Dorian Gray (Wilde)

[Pablo]

"Raoul Duke - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and others (Thompson)..."

 

Good choice Ilona. I'd forgotten about all about him.

[Raven]

Had a thought, and here they are:

1. Takahashi

After Dark, by Haruki Murakami

After Dark was the first Murakami novel I read, and Takahashi just stole it for me. There's nothing particularly amazing about the character, but his laid back manner has a definite charm and it just makes him very cool indeed. It's the only time I can recall finishing a book and being genuinely disappointed that I would never read about a character again.

2. Jack Coker

The Day of the Triffids, by John Wyndham

Wyndham wrote so many wonderful characters, but everyman Jack Coker is my favourite. He is an old head on young shoulders, who has a practical, no-nonsense approach but there is also a streak of back-talking cheek thrown in. If I was facing the end of civilisation, I couldn

[Ilona]

"Raoul Duke - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and others (Thompson)..."

 

Good choice Ilona. I'd forgotten about all about him.

Thank you - I loved his drug-frenzied dialogue.

[Ben Mines]

1. Leopold Bloom, husband of Molly, father of Milly, mayor of Bloomusalem, appreciative consumer of the inner organs of beasts and fowls, new womanly man, lovable homo domesticus, correspondent of Martha Clifford (qua Henry Flower), marker of tea, buyer of lemon soap, reader of tidbits, teetotaler, Jew, wittol, all round man. Good old Bloom!

 

2. Professor Kinbote, nom de guerre of Charles Xavier the II, nom de folie of Professor Botkin, who may also be the ghost of John or Hazel Shade. No, no, don't ask me to explain

[Johnny Carson Whit]

1. Lisbeth Salander. Easily my favourite fictional character of all time, as someone who has always been somewhat of an outsider, she is someone I can relate to.

 

2. Tyler Durden. Again as somewhat of an outsider he is someone who really 'spoke' to me. Some of the lines he comes out with I find truly inspiring.

 

3. Jack Torrance. For no other reason than I found him fascinating and a joy to read, in one of the best SK novels ever written.

 

4. Alex - A Clockwork Orange One of the most despicable, inherently evil yet somewhat refined characters ever written.

 

5. John Rainbird. A very imposing and well written character in the latest SK novel that I have read.

[Cookie]

3. Jack Torrance. For no other reason than I found him fascinating and a joy to read, in one of the best SK novels ever written.

 

I hadn't read the book when I put my suggestions up on the board before. He's a character I am going to remember for a long time. Although I can't say I liked him though.

[Ilona]

I mostly felt sorry for him - it's hard to imagine what it'd be like to realize the terror you've caused your own loved ones like that.

[adz3]

1.Erik from the Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

2.Dagny Taggart from Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

3.Mr. Darcy from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

4.Elphaba from Wicked by Gregory Maguire

5.Javer and/or Jean Valjean from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (I'm not sure which one I like best yet)

[Mac]

Five of my favourites are:

• Myron Bolitar from Harlan Coben's novels
• Dexter Morgan from Jeff Lindsay's novels
• Carson Ryder from J A Kerley's novels
• Chief Inspector Alan Banks from Peter Robinson's novels (because it's possible he's based on me...)
• Jack Reacher from Lee Child's novels

It's interesting how these are all connected in some way to the Police, isn't it...

[Brida]

At the moment, I pick these characters (in no particular order)

 

- Nakata (Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami)

- Pi (Life of Pi by Yann Martel)

- Hamlet (Hamlet by William Shakespeare)

- Gregor Samsa (The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka)

- Santiago/Brida (The Alchemist/Brida by Paulo Coelho; can't chose)

[Coffin Nail]

Blimey. Only 5?? That's a tough one.

In no particular order;

 

Winston Smith--1984

 

Atticus Finch--To Kill a Mocking Bird

 

DI Steel--A national treasure as written by Stuart Macbride

 

Hagrid-Harry Potter series

 

Miss Sophia--Colour Purple

 

But what about: Sam Spade, Hannibal Lecter, Miss Haversham, Scrooge, Mrs Danvers, The Twits, Willy Wonka, Begbie, Drancula, Adrian Mole, Rebus........and probably another hundred. Any of which could have made the list.

[Brida]

Adrian Mole

 

He is special...

[Pixie]

Hmmm, difficult to choose.

 

1. Atticus Finch (To Kill a Mockingbird)

2. Aramis (The Three Musketeers)

3. Philip Carey (Of Human Bondage)

4. Rhett Butler (Gone With The Wind)

5. The Fool (The Farseer Series)

 

I had to change my list. I almost forgot Aramis!

Edited August 18, 2010 by Pixie

[nursenblack]

My choices are:

 

1. Mr. Darcy from Pride and Predjudice

2. Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland (do animals count? well he does talk)

3. Catherine Earnshaw from Wuthering Heights

4. Laura Ingalls Wilder from Little House books (is a real person but not living)

5. Anne Shirely from Anne of Green Gables

[TheNinthWord]

In no particular order:

 

Susan Sto Helit (Discworld Novels)

 

Jane Eyre (Jane Eyre)

 

Perrin Aybara (The Wheel of Time) - followed closely by a lot of the female characters; Elayne, Min, Egwaine, Nynaeve, Moiraine, Faile

 

Kelsier (Mistborn Trilogy)

 

Jonathan Strange (Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell)