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Favourite Literary Characters?

defective_lise said:
The characters in the A Song of Ice and Fire series are so developed, ffffff. I can't choose one.
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holy shit you are reading this too?!?!?!?!? <3 <3<3

Daenerys Taragyen! Jon Snow! Arya Stark! there, those are my favourite characters from that series...and maybe Tyrion Lannister after book 2. and the incest twins, of course. I think I'm repeating myself lol...
 
The deranged professor/king Charles Kinbote of Nabokov's Pale Fire. Timofey Pnin of Nabokov's Pnin also makes a strikingly original, comically pathetic, and gently melancholy character, though I don't know if he's all that likeable.

Quentin Compson is another favorite, of William Faulkner's the Sound and the Fury. I must admit, I cried when I read his section. Conversely, I hate Jason more than any other fictional character I've ever read.

I almost forgot Charles Bukowski's recurring Henry Chinaski, from Ham On Rye, Post Office, and Factotum. He's the most likeable unlovable degenerate drunkard in literature, at least from what I've read. He is the scum of urban America, not the dangerous violent, malevolent type, but the passively depraved, useless barfly kind of scum.
 
Henry Chinaski gets my vote as well :)

Michael George Holloway aka Scat from Max Barry's novel, Syrup. You will love this guy, I promise you.
 
defective_lise said:
I've been reading it since I was 11...probably not the best for 11 year olds...but...I've been so addicted since then. The characters are SO GOOD. Jon Snow might have been my first real literary crush, lol. My sci fi lit professor was a good friend of his and I was like "WHEN IS THE NEXT BOOK COMING OUT O%IN#QITRJEF*UIDNSF" and she just rolled her eyes and sighed. :( That was last year...
Tyrion is obviously the author's darling and one of my favorites. Arya, Sansa, and Jon were amazing narratives. The Hound was amazing...the Taragyens...the ultimate creepy characters (like Roose Bolton), Jaime and Cersei, etc...so amazing.
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yeah, Martin has said that Tyrion is his favourite. I personally hate Sansa, I don't see how she is a POV character, I had to force myself to read her chapters because she was so...weak. I was kind of hoping that because her direwolf was dead that meant she would die too. No such luck.
 
^ ha

Bruce Robertson (and worm) from Filth by Irvine as well... The perfect anti-hero...
 
I've heard of Filth's unique format but haven't gotten to it. Rent Boy and what's his name, Spud, were the only really sympathetic characters in Trainspotting. Poor Spud :(
 
im surprised nobody has mentioned Tyler Durden or Marla Singer yet, they are great characters from Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club

followed by Henry Chinaski (by Charles Bukowski) or Raoul Duke (by Hunter S Thompson)
 
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seep said:
She dislikes herself because Pynchon is in love with himself and Oedipa's a projection of something Pynchon wants to keep hidden--even from himself. He spends the rest of his career trying to shut her up.
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Heh, that's a pretty damn interesting comment :). Great list.

Let me try:

Michael Pemulis in Infinite Jest (If I had to pick one, I'd go with Pemulis over Gately, but Donnie's definitely up there.)
Dorothea in George Eliot's Middlemarch
Takashi Kovacs in Richard Morgan's Altered Carbon and sequels
Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment
Falstaff in Shakespeare
Micawber in Dickens' David Copperfield
Harold Skimpole in Dickens' Bleak House (not that I like him, just that he's magnificently described...)

That'll do for now...
 
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