Tell me, /book/, who is/are your favorite character(s) in a book and why?
Name:
Anonymous2008-06-17 12:29
Yahweh, because the great flood and everything was pretty bad ass.
Name:
Anonymous2008-06-17 15:16
Glokta, the crippled torturer of The First Law trilogy by Joe Abercrombie - because his inner monologue is pretty damn funny, and because I wouldn't have believed I'd like such a character as much as I do before reading these books.
Name:
Anonymous2008-06-17 15:39
>>2
Satan rapes his sorry ass, fucker. Only archangels were as awesome as Satan. Yhvh (YEA THAT'S HIS REAL NAME, FAGGOT) is a whiny fag who can't even do shit himself, fuck him.
Right now Im going with either Whiskeyjack or Anomander Rake from Malazan. Shit is intense and those guys are fvcking awesome.
Name:
Anonymous2008-06-18 0:15
Raven from Snow Crash. Dude was so fucking bad-ass. The only time he got knocked out was when he was having sex with a loli. Shit yes.
Name:
Anonymous2008-06-18 2:59
Ian Malcom - Jurassic Park
Name:
Anonymous2008-06-18 13:51
Christoffer McCandless
Holden Colfield
Howard Roark
Name:
Anonymous2008-06-18 22:30
Tyler Durden
Name:
Anonymous2008-06-18 22:38
Toc the Younger from the Malazan. Don't really have a reason why I like him, he just seemed really cool.
Name:
Anonymous2008-06-19 3:18
Jay Gatsby
Name:
Anonymous2008-06-19 3:40
In no particular order off the top of my head:
Drasek Riven from the Erevis Cale stuff. Because in the one book he totally killed that guy for beating up a dog. He also causes people physical pain by cursing. Those books are way better than what one would expect out of a typical Forgotten Realms fare.
The Weaver from Perdido Street Station. The reasons are obvious to anyone who has read the book.
Sandor Clegane from ASoIaF. 'Cause he's an asshole and does what he wants.
Elric of Meniboné. He's (to my knowledge) the original androgynous guy with a big sword and long, flowing silvery hair. He's also just a neat main character. Or at least he was when I read the books all those years ago.
Name:
Anonymous2008-06-24 2:02
Francisco D'Anconia
Name:
Anonymous2008-06-24 16:57
Bobby Shaftoe of the Cryptonomicon.
Name:
Anonymous2008-06-25 7:03
lolita
Name:
Anonymous2008-06-26 21:12
Beren from the Silmirrillion or however its called. Mother fucker stands up to the first dark lord. Has to be badass. Also first one to bone an elf chick.
Name:
Anonymous2008-06-27 5:35
>>16
Being the first one to bone an elf chick is nothing compared to being the first one to bone the goddess chick, though, amirite. That elf chick's own father managed to do just that.
Name:
Anonymous2008-06-30 0:55
Estella Havisham ruined my teenage years. I wanted her so bad and hated her so very very much
Rincewind is the coolest character ever.I`m very much like him expect i`m not as cowardly as he is and am drinking much more as he but the rest I´M just as he.I`m cheating me through life and getting problems from people i don´t know and don`t wanna know.Yes Rincewind is the coolest.(His authors is Pratchett just for the noobreaders who don`t know rincewind)
The Patrician. A truly great man, for having mimes imprisoned in the dungeon if nothing else.
Name:
Anonymous2008-07-31 16:02
Narrator from Fight Club.
Buster Casey from Rant.
And a bunch of characters from Tolkien's works.
Name:
Anonymous2008-07-31 18:02
Sam Vimes.
He's just badass as fuck.
Name:
Anonymous2008-08-01 13:09
Hugo Rune
A true genius
Name:
Anonymous2008-08-01 17:43
Herman Dürer, a guy from a Dutch novel which might or might not be translated to English - anyway after he's served two months prison for stealing a taxi he is completely sick of his old friends and family and he goes away to find his luck in italy. but he strands somewhere in Munich, where he meets some italian guys who tell him italy is fucked too, after which he goes totally crazy, kills someone and then never says anything again.
>>39
Rand al'Thor is Harry Potter on Elephant Steroids. Harry fights a reasonably evil, racist, snake-like bastard who terrorizes the equivalent of the population of Portland, Maine before getting beat down by a baby. Rand takes on motherfucking Satan. Harry has some neat spells. Rand has flame swords, gateways big enough to drive an F40PH through, and MOTHERFUCKING BALEFIRE. Harry gets the whiny, ugly ginger fangirl. Rand has a harem, which includes a cross between Xena and Nabooru, a traditional smoking-hot princess, and a magic-less version of Tonks.
Name:
Anonymous2008-08-22 3:26
Drizzt Do'Urden
Is there really any competition?
Name:
Anonymous2008-08-23 6:19
The protagonist in The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Hemingway.
Nakata from Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami.
Name:
Anonymous2008-08-24 5:53
>>42
Too bad all his character development ceased after book 3 and he was just the hard ass king after that.
Edmund Talbot, from There Will Be Dragons, by John Ringo. Even if he is a mary sue.
Name:
Anonymous2008-08-27 7:40
Holden Caufield from The Catcher in the Rye. I read the book last year, and still I feel like I can relate to him.
Name:
Anonymous2008-08-28 16:42
Merricat Blackwood from We Have Always Lived In The Castle
Ignatius J. Reilly from A Confederacy of Dunces
Horse Badorties from The Fan Man
Harry Flashman from The Flashman Papers
Ford Prefect
Name:
Anonymous2008-08-29 15:09
Tyrion Lannister, Elric and Santiago (the Old Man from Old Man and the Sea)
Name:
Anonymous2008-09-02 16:47
Heathcliff
Name:
Anonymous2008-09-02 18:40
Kvothe.
Name:
Anonymous2008-09-03 1:35
>>53
Good choice, but imho you can't really decide yet - unless you know more than me at least (ARC? are they even out yet for book 2?).
He could be (and probably is) lying about a lot of things (and if he somehow isn't, I'd see that as a wasted opportunity by Rothfuss).
Name:
Anonymous2008-12-04 14:54
Motherfucking Holden Caulfield.
He was awesome.
Name:
Anonymous2008-12-04 19:22
Alyosha Karamazov
I would be gay for him if I met him
Name:
Anonymous2008-12-04 23:51
Philip Marlowe. Fuck you if you need a reason why.