Characters you hated reading about

Topic.

For me Felesin (basically the whore) from the Malazan series. I even skipped the majority of her parts (something I never do otherwise).

Basically the whole cast of Prince of Nothing, except the barbarian before it becomes apparent that Kellhus has him in his pocket too.
I never did finish that trilogy, stopped after the first. A series without at least ONE likeable character just doesn't work for me, no matter the quality of the prose / the philosophy.

Also, ASOIAF: the Stark girls, whiny little bitches that they were, in the beginning, at least. Never have I come that close to skipping chapters in books I actually liked very much.

Honorable Mention: At least three fourths of all characters written by Robin Hobb.. those novels really need more violent murder in hot blooded rage.
Also not to forget the Soldier Son trilogy by her, which I quit in disgust after the first (acceptable) book.. the second degenerated to JELLY ROLLS JELLY ROLLS NOBODY LOVES ME, every other sentence.
Damn how I wish that whiny motherfucker would have just died at the end of book 1, it would have made a somewhat decent ending.

>>1

I'm reading that book now, actually. I hate her even more than I normally would since I know someone like her, but I like reading her chapters because I'm very hopeful that something bad will happen to her.

>>2

Same thing with ASoIaF. I read all the Sansa and Cersei chapters because I just couldn't wait too see the finale of them digging their own graves.

I went through the same sort of thing with the Catelyn chapters, but I trudged through because I thought that what happened around her was interesting. Then I sort of felt bad for her in A Storm of Swords. I still think she's a bitch for her attitude towards Jon, though.

>>2
Fuck yeah the Prince of Nothing! They were some magnificent bastards.

The main character in Guy Gavriel Kay's Tigana. I was praying the villain would flay the flesh from his bones and feed him to the fish.

Neil McVren(?) from Keyes' Briar King. He just rubbed me the wrong way.

Martos from Paul Zimmer's Dark Border novels. I grew used to him somewhere during the final third/quarter but before hurggghhh.

Orisian from Brian Ruckley's Winterbirth. Tedium to the maximum. I can't really take solace in that if the bad guys had been more competent he'd have been stuck full of crossbow bolts by now either.

Come to think of it, I don't have many characters that I hate reading about. Mostly it's disinterest/pissed off because they're taking page time from my favourites.

Honourable mention goes to Perrin from WoT, who went from disinteresting to a real pain in the ass to read about.

Oh god, Cattie Brie and Wulfgar and even later on Drizzt.

Cattie Brie because she's Ms.Perfect, acts like a gigantic bitch and talks like she's retarded.

Wulfgar was never really interesting, but when he became all emo for several books later on I fucking raged all the time when I had to read about him. After he got back to "normal" he was mindnumbingly dull.

Drizzt because his plot armor, "hunter" hax and being the king of all moralfags.

Honorable mention is the Orc King from the later books, he is without a doubt the most stupidly gay "evil" character I've ever read about. Seriously, a short broad orc with a tight helmet with special green glass for his eyes (attached to the helmet), a steel scarf, some gay shiny armor a giant flaming two-handed sword... oh and it's all magical. How the fuck is that imposing?

>>5

I agree. I really liked The Dark Elf Trilogy when I read it back in junior high skool (since it was primarily about Drizzt and the drow society), but then I read some of the other stuff and I just wanted to retch. I hate how authors like that can't seem to understand that good/realistic antagonists generally DON'T THINK THAT WHAT THEY'RE DOING IS WRONG.

>>6
Indeed. Hence why I only kept reading for Artemis Entreri and Jarlaxe. Moved onto their series later. Their own bookseries is the only remotely good thing (apart from the Dark Elf trilogy) that Salvatore has written.

>>4

 I also found Perrin from WoT hard to stomach  but Mat always annoyed me as well

>>8
I enjoyed reading about Mat. At least he was always up to something in interesting company rather than just camping out stewing and doing nothing with boring people.

Harry Potter. Being incapable of doing no wrong, standing and taking abuse from his family and douche bags like a bitch, and being a general retard until the plot called for him to be suddenly not retarded got old really fast.

Eragon was just as bad, for more or less all the same reasons, only with increased idiocy.

Various characters from Poisonwood Bible got on my nerves too. I can't understand how one family could be comprised of nothing but morons.