Favorite book characters?
 

Holden Caulfield - The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Scout Finch - To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Jem Finch - To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Atticus Finch - To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Dill Harris - To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Boo Radley - To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Owen Meany - A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Charles Wallace Murry - A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Meg Murry - A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Calvin O'Keefe - A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Mrs Whatsit - A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Seymour Glass - Raise High the Roof Beam, Carptenters and Seymour: An Introduction by J. D. Salinger
Buddy Glass - Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction by J. D. Salinger

Who are some of your's?

I really like:
Sophie Amundsen - Sophie's World by Jostien Gardnier
Vicky Austin - A Ring of Endless Light by Madeleine L'Engle
Polly O'Keefe - An Acceptable Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Roanne Chappell - Visible Amazement by Gale Zoe Garnett

Sam Vimes - Discworld
Death - Discworld
The Librarian - Discworld
Carrot - Discworld
Crowley - Good Omens
Hob Gadling - Sandman
Dream - Sandman
Death - Sandman

Roland Deschain from the Dark Tower series by Stephen King.
--never before was I able to so clearly "see" a character

also,

Waldo from Where's Waldo.
--that guy is awesome

Hands down

Mattrim Cauthon from the Wheel of Time Series.
Never before has so much ass-kickery been bestowed upon one character.

How can you possibly exclude Havelock Vetinari? He and Vimes make quite the duo. This alone is enough to get my vote:

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Excellent choice.

I have lots and lots of favorite characters...but I'm going to have to go with Dirk Pitt and Al Giordino from the Dirk Pitt series by Clive Cussler. Dirk is an ass-kicker and Al is a smartass...they complement each other so nicely.

Charlotte- charlottes web (EB WHite)
The Little Prince - The Little Prince, (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
Francie Nolan - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
Frankie Addams - Member of the Wedding (Carson McCullers)

Ignatius Reilly, A Confederacy of Dunces(John Kennedy Toole)
Winnie the pooh, Winnie the Pooh (AA Milne)
Daisy head Maisy, Daisy head maisy (Dr Seuss)
Big Brother, 1984 (George Orwell)
Jo March, Little women (Louisa May Alcott)
TS Garp, The world according to garp (John irving)
Yuri Zhivago, Dr. Zhivago (Boris Pasternak)
Marlow or Kurtz, Heart of Darkness(Joseph Conrad) (Thank you mrs RT in my 10 grade lit class for getting me to really understand this book and appreciate the characters)
Dean Moriarty, On the Road (Jack Kerouac)
Willy Loman, Death of a salesman (Arthur Miller) Such a sad character...


I would have always put Willy wonka on my list of favorite book characters, but the god awful remake of the movie was just so awful, I really no longer like the character... I think it's really the first movie that really ruined a book for me..

(Book characters aren't real -people -- so there for a spider, and some cartoon characters should count right? :D

I'll second that one. He's just so badass. I'd follow him on his quest to the Dark Tower.

The first three dark tower books were amazing, I was less than impressed with the last four and only finished the rest of the series to say that I had. I read the first four about 5 years ago and loved the first three and was waiting big time for the new ones... only to be let down BIG TIME by the new ones.

I'd like to add Myrna Minkoff, Mme Satanta, Trixie, his mom, and my favorite, Jones (you be looking mighty junkie with a bird of paradize broom handle shove up your ass!)

My others:
Babbitt-Babbitt
Carol Kennicott-Main Street
Anonymous Woman-My Happy Life

I disagree thus far. Although Wizard and Glass had its moments where it was boring, but it was also really interesting reading about Roland as a kid with Cuthbert and Alain. I'm on Wolves of the Calla right now, and thus far, I'm not disappointed. I would definitely say the first two are by far the best ... so far.

Anne Shirley-Blythe from the Anne books
Pippin from Lord of the Rings
Katherine from Taming of the Shrew
Hermione from the Harry Potter series
Severus Snape from the Harry Potter series
Mr. Rochester from Jane Eyre
Mr. Darcy from Pride and Prejudice
Elizabeth Bennet from Pride and Prejudice

I'm sure I'll think of more...

Jean Valjean - le miserables
James Bond - 007 Ian Flamming novels
Captian Nemo - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Pip - Great Expectations (with the original ending, not that upbeat crap)
Jesus - The Bible (you never said fiction)
Hamlet - Hamlet
Pierre Bezuhov - War and Peace

I'll think of more later.

I'm gonna have to go back to books I read when I was much younger - the following characters made quite an impression on me...

Ender/Andrew Wiggin - Enders Game, Orson Scott Card
Bean - Ender's Shadow - Orson Scott Card
Sita/Alisa Perne - The Last Vampire Series, Christopher Pike

Some of my darlings:

Alexander Smollett - Treasure Island, R L Stevenson (Because he takes no crap from smelly pirates nor bumbling squres.)
Thomas Babbington - Aubrey/Maturin series, Patrick O'Brian (Because he's a pint-sized sex machine AND a kick-ass sailor and simply adorable/amusing. And he got propositioned to by a monkey and he ate the doctor's rat.)
Vladimir Lensky - Eugene Onegin, Aleksandr Pushkin (WHY DID YOU KILL HIM ONEGIN YOU BASTARD!!!1!!ONE!)
Gilderoy Lockhart - Harry Potter series, J K Rowling (You have to admire a con artist of that calibre. Also: he was so darn sweet in OotP.)

John Gault- Atlus Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Rincwind- Discworld
The libarian- Discworld
Dream- Sandman
Death- Sandman
The overman- Thus spoke zarathusat.

Victor Ian Steiner-Davion - Battletech series

off the top of my head and in no particular order:

binx bolling > the moviegoer
joseph k. > the trial
Gabriel Syme & sunday > the man who was thursday: a nightmare
oskar matzerath > the tin drum
leopold & molly bloom > ulysses
the doctors wife & the dog of tears > blindness
therem estraven > the left hand of darkness
quentin compson > the sound and the fury
leigh-cheri > still life with woodpecker
the walm > satan buger
celsia & celsia2 > razor wire pubic hair

The Weapons Master-From the Shannhara series
Tom Bombadil-The Lord of the Rings

Colonel Brandon - Sense and Sensibility
Severus Snape- Harry Potter
(lol who were both played by Alan Rickman in the movies)

Another vote for Dirk Pitt and Al Giordino from all the Clive Cussler books and add Admiral Sandecker

Jamie Fraser from Outlander
Lestat from all the Ann Rice books he's in
Zillah from Poppy Z Brite's Lost Souls

Annie Wilkes from Stephen King's Misery

'M-O-O-N, that spells Moon' - That one comes to mind all the time for me.

Arkady Renko from Gorky Park, Polar Star and other books by Martin Cruz Smith.

Wow a lot of chars but I guess this is a quick list...
George R.R. Martin - Jon Snow (Game of thrones)
Craig Shaw Gardner - Skeeve (A Malady of magic series)
Robert Jordan - Mat (Wheel of time)
Ursula Le Guin - Sparrowhawk
Robin Hobb - Fool / White Prophet

My favorite - C.S. Friedman - Gerald Tarrant (Coldfire trilogy).

Hmmm, as if y'all didn't already have me pegged as a Sci-Fi/Fantasy junkie:

Croaker - The Black Company (the annalist and Physician) by Glen Cook. Also Goblin and One-Eye

Got to second Jon Snow from GRR Martin's Song of Ice and Fire series, but he's my second favorite character. Eddard Stark is my favorite. I'm also really impressed by both Jamie and Tyrion Lannister (and all the Lannisters really - hateful people, most of them, but really well written), and Sandor Clegane.

Benedict from Zelazney's Amber Series, Francis Sandow from several other Zelazney books and stories, and Yama from Lord of Light.

Rudy Solis from Barbara Hambly's Darwath Trilogy.

Morrolan from Steven Brust's Taltos and Khaavren series. Also, Vlad's Grandfather.

Voilodion Ghagnasdiak (only for the name) from an episode in three of Michael Moorcock's books.

Mr Croup from Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere. "You can't make an Omlette without killin' a few people."

Brendan Doyle from Tim Power's The Anubis Gates.

Horst Badortes - The Fan Man by William Kotzwinkle

Virgin Neil - Orbital Decay by Allen Steele

YT - Snow Crash by Neal Stevenson.

Silk - the Belgariad by David Eddings (which is pap, but fun to read.)

Thlayli (Bigwig) - Watership Down.

And, just to round it out, from Small Gods by Terry Pratchett, Brutha, Didactylos, and OM.

Yossarian from Heller's Catch 22.

Peter and Kate Sagamore from John Barth's The Tidewater Tales, A Novel, which I read while in college, and was the only book I've ever read that I was actually honestly sad to finish.

Yorick from Y: The Last Man. Graphic novel characters count, right?

The Invisible Man (protagonist) – Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
Guy Montag – Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
Jay Gatsby – The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Hester Prynne – The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
Abigail Williams – The Crucible, Arthur Miller
Xuela Claudette Richardson – The Autobiography of My Mother, Jamaica Kincaid

Randle Patrick McMurphy - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Kerbouchard - "The Walking Drum"-Louis L'Amour

Good point. The Patrician makes the list too!