'Cos this is deserving of its own thread.
*nods*
'Cos this is deserving of its own thread.
*nods*
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
Huckleberry Finn
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)
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
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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.Quoting Melville (view post)
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...
The Boat People - 9
The Power of the Dog - 7.5
The King of Pigs - 7
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).
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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*
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.
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My favourite character of all time is probably Phillip Marlowe. Mmm... Marlowe.
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Vicomte de Valmont and Marquis de Merteuil - Les Liaisons Dangereuses
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.
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Ivan - The Brothers Karamazov
Harry Haller - Steppenwolf
Wishful thinking, perhaps; but that is just another possible definition of the featherless biped.
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.
Who are your favourite female characters?
*curious*
She was wonderful. :P
My Mom - 10
Favorite female characters off the top of my head:
Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen - Women in Love
Here are a few:
Lise - The Brothers Karamazov (entirely because of this scene)
Nastasya Filippovna - The Idiot
Madame Bovary
Mrs. Rochester - The Wide Sargasso Sea
Mrs. Dalloway
Dido - The Aeneid
Medea - Euripides' Medea
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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
Memories of the Future
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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.
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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.
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only because no one yet mentioned him.
Major Major Major Major is also good.
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