Fave Characters?

[SpaceOddity]

'Cos this is deserving of its own thread.
*nods*

[Benny Profane]

There are many to choose from. I'm going to be a little creative and list my favorite Anti-heros.



Rasklanikov -- Crime and Punishment
Henry Chinaski -- assorted Bukowski works
Benny Profane -- V.
Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom -- Rabbit, Run
Moses Herzog -- Herzog

[rocus]

Huckleberry Finn

[Kurosawa Fan]

I'll go with a few more obvious choices that haven't been listed:

Holden Caufield
Ignatius J. Riley
Briony Tallis
Samuel Hamilton
The Father (The Road)

[Melville]

I like my heroes tortured and preferably Russian:

Raskolnikov - Crime and Punishment
The Underground Man - Notes from Underground
Ivan Karamazov - The Brothers Karamazov
Eugene Onegin - Eugene Onegin
The narrator - Hunger
Hamlet - Hamlet

[Benny Profane]

I like my heroes tortured and preferably Russian:



You should definitely read Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler, if you haven't already. Rubashov the protagonist gets run through the ringer, for sure.

[dreamdead]

Lily Bart - Wharton's The House of Mirth
Joseph Knecht - Hesse's Magister Ludi: The Glass Bead Game
Tim O'Brien - O'Brien's The Things They Carried
Briony Tallis - McEwan's Atonement
Vladimir and Estragon - Beckett's Waiting for Godot
assorted Chekhov characters in his plays...

[Melville]

You should definitely read Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler, if you haven't already. Rubashov the protagonist gets run through the ringer, for sure.
Yep, I've read it. It's a great book, but I was thinking more of torture via existential despair than torture via sleep deprivation (not that the two can't go hand in hand).

[SpaceOddity]

Lily Bart - Wharton's The House of Mirth


Yay. Lily's one of mine, too.

"It was too late for happiness - but not too late to be helped by the thought of what I had missed. That is all I haved lived on - don't take it from me now."
*sobs*

Can you believe that X-Files bitch was assigned the role!
*foams at mouth*

[SpaceOddity]

Eugene Onegin - Eugene Onegin


No love for Tatiana?
*adores*

[Melville]

No love for Tatiana?
*adores*
She's good too, but she didn't really fit in with the theme of my choices—not quite enough bile and self-loathing.

[Philosophe_rouge]

My favourite character of all time is probably Phillip Marlowe. Mmm... Marlowe.

[Lucky]

Vicomte de Valmont and Marquis de Merteuil - Les Liaisons Dangereuses

[MadMan]

Guy Montag-Fahrenheit 451
Sherlock Holmes-Countless "Sherlock Homes stories"
Bigwig-Watership Down
Dr. Alan Grant-Jurassic Park

Are just some of the ones off the top of my head.

[Duncan]

Ivan - The Brothers Karamazov
Harry Haller - Steppenwolf

[Derek]

Franny - Franny & Zooey
Karl Rossmann/Joseph K./K. - Amerika/The Trial/The Castle
Kilgore Trout - various Vonnegut novels

Favorite fictional fictional character - Billy Mumphrey and his unbridled enthusiasm.

I'll have to look at ye olde bookshelf to jog the old memory. I miss reading novels. :(

[SpaceOddity]

She's good too, but she didn't really fit in with the theme of my choices—not quite enough bile and self-loathing.

Who are your favourite female characters?

*curious*

[jenniferofthejungle]

Can you believe that X-Files bitch was assigned the role!
*foams at mouth*

She was wonderful. :P

[Derek]

Favorite female characters off the top of my head:

Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen - Women in Love

[Melville]

Who are your favourite female characters?

*curious*
Here are a few:

Lise - The Brothers Karamazov (entirely because of this scene (http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/d/dostoyevsky/d72b/chapter72.html))
Nastasya Filippovna - The Idiot
Madame Bovary
Mrs. Rochester - The Wide Sargasso Sea
Mrs. Dalloway
Dido - The Aeneid
Medea - Euripides' Medea

[jesse]

Zooey from the obvious
Orlando from the obvious
The Little Prince from the obvious
Nat, Little Men
Edmund, Long Day's Journey Into Night
Lily Briscoe, To the Lighthouse
Amory Blaine, This Side of Paradise
Louis Waters, The Hours
The girl from The Lover
Nancy Drew

[Melville]

The girl from The Lover
Nice choice. Such an interesting mix of naivete and worldliness, and such a great counterpoint to her lover. I was thinking about putting her in my list of favorite female characters.

[Derek]

Zooey from the obvious

I suppose Zooey is the more interesting character, but there's some beautiful and tragic about poor Franny repeating that prayer in vain that makes me prefer her by a hair.

[lovejuice]

humbert humbert

only because no one yet mentioned him.

[Melville]

humbert humbert

only because no one yet mentioned him.
Major Major Major Major is also good.

[SpaceOddity]

I can't believe there's no love for Sebastian Flyte.

*shakes head*

"I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember."

*sobs*

[SpaceOddity]

She was wonderful. :P

*puts fingers in ears and lalalas*

I reckon the only actress capable of portraying Lily is Justine Waddell.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Bkkz-WCJDcM

*hearts*
*plots theft of her beauty*

[SpaceOddity]

Orlando from the obvious
The Little Prince from the obvious


Yayayayay.
*approves*

[D_Davis]

I'll add another:

Horse Lover Fat - Philip K. Dick, VALIS

[jesse]

I suppose Zooey is the more interesting character, but there's some beautiful and tragic about poor Franny repeating that prayer in vain that makes me prefer her by a hair. Well, Franny probably should have made my list too, so I don't really think it's an either/or situation. The opening to the "Zooey" section is just about my favorite in literature--especially about it being a "written home movie"--and there's something about it being set in the bathroom and a bathtub in particular that's just brilliant.

No wonder Wes Anderson stole it (though admittedly he did it well).

[Melville]

Ivan - The Brothers Karamazov
Nice.

[Duncan]

Nice.

The section dedicated to him is maybe my favorite ~150 pages of literature ever. Especially that conversation with the devil.

[megladon8]

Have to throw in Robert Neville, as well.

[SpaceOddity]

Mine:
The Little Prince
The Swallow, The Happy Prince
Heathcliff ;) Wuthering Heights
Lily Bart, The House of Mirth
The Beast ;)
Tess D'uberville
Sebastian Flyte, Bridehead Revisited
Milly Theale, The Wings of the Dove
Orlando
Lara Antipova, Doctor Zhivago
Peter Pan (Although I'm still resentful he didn't deliver me from age.)
Ariel, The Little Mermaid
John Thornton, North and South
Tatiana, Onegin
Psyche (In both Apuleius and C.S. Lewis's versions)