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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2020 11:33:25 GMT
I remember loving Wind in the Willows as a kid, in particular I was drawn to Mr Toad. I loved his antics and penchant for causing mayhem and mischief wherever he went, particularly when he got behind the wheel of a car! Characters like that stay with you and help form you in some ways. So who are your favourites and why? They don't have to come from children's literature.
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Post by tory on Dec 2, 2020 11:46:09 GMT
Svejk from "The Good Soldier Svejk" as the Lada portrait is my avatar.  He is the archetypal anti-hero, a layabout with an eye for a good story who manages to wiggle his way out of dark situations in the midst of WW1 through "baby-faced idiocy" as a show to his superiors. There are countless stories he elucidates, involving some hapless dolt in a Czech village somewhere with dogs, all of which would, I suspect, have had a ring of truth to them, given the author's nature. Hasek's book was a massive influence on Catch-22. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2020 11:48:19 GMT
Interesting. I'll confess I've never heard of it.
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Post by hippopotamus on Dec 2, 2020 11:53:24 GMT
I have to have a think.
I just finished Anna Karenina, and I can safely say most of those characters are my least favourite.
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Post by bungo the mungo on Dec 2, 2020 12:18:32 GMT
easy one this. Sir Harry Paget Flashman VC, KCB, KCIE.  |
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Post by tory on Dec 2, 2020 12:22:28 GMT
easy one this. Sir Harry Paget Flashman VC, KCB, KCIE. I reckon Flashman would have beaten you up for your haircut alone. |
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Post by fange on Dec 2, 2020 12:43:59 GMT
Another big Flashman fan here, one of the best anti-heroes ever. Flashy would heartliy approve of skopey's salacious nature, if little else.
Growing up i loved Tintin and Asterix, the characters were funny and appealing for me as a kid in all the best ways. Don't laugh, but i liked Biggles as well, the flying and traveling part at least.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2020 12:44:01 GMT
Today it's Josef Kiss, Rosa Dartle, Richard Hannay and Hoederer.
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Dec 2, 2020 12:45:32 GMT
Holden Caulfield
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2020 12:48:45 GMT
Also Heathcliff obviously
Forgot the "why" part - when I'm not working!
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Post by tory on Dec 2, 2020 12:52:27 GMT
That is such a dull answer |
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Post by tory on Dec 2, 2020 12:52:53 GMT
Another big Flashman fan here, one of the best anti-heroes ever. Flashy would heartliy approve of skopey's salacious nature, if little else. Growing up i loved Tintin and Asterix, the characters were funny and appealing for me as a kid in all the best ways. Don't laugh, but i liked Biggles as well, the flying and traveling part at least. Captain Haddock. Absolute legend. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2020 13:03:53 GMT
Foxy roxy, she was hot as fuck. Titbits magazine. Wow.
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Post by rayge on Dec 2, 2020 13:11:15 GMT
I remember loving Wind in the Willows as a kid, in particular I was drawn to Mr Toad. I loved his antics and penchant for causing mayhem and mischief wherever he went, particularly when he got behind the wheel of a car! Characters like that stay with you and help form you in some ways. So who are your favourites and why? They don't have to come from children's literature.
That's my favourite book, but I have to say I prefer Badger. I believe the four main characters are based the four Elements of Earth Air Fire and Water (Mole, Toad, Badger, Rat), and the one we like best reflects our own character types, but basically I could bore for England - hell, the world, in an interplanetary boreathon - about this book, and I'm currently in the middle of writing a hagiography post about my first true love in music, so I'll have to come back later, maybe. Other possible candidates - Kazak in Sirens of Titan, Krazy Kat, Ignatz Mouse, and Offisa Pup, Boot in The Perishers, Snoopy in Peanuts, I in Ed Dorn's Gunslinger, William Brown in Richmal Crompton's books, Uncle Mort in Peter Tinniswood's books featuring the Brandon family, the policemen in The Third Policeman, and, unashamedly, Kid Glover in Mbawe
Edit: Dammit, how could I forget Jeeves
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2020 13:11:20 GMT
Today it's Josef Kiss, Rosa Dartle, Richard Hannay and Hoederer. Mother London! I'm a fan of that too. Must give it a reread. |
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