# Character from a book you just \*SWOON\* over **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 13, 2002, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-from-a-book-you-just-swoon-over/142413 "2002-12-13T03:15:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Palo\_Verde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/65b543/32.png) [@Palo\_Verde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palo_Verde)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-from-a-book-you-just-swoon-over/142413/1 "2002-12-13T03:15:11Z")
No contest… for me it’s just got to be Gus from ‘Lonesome Dove.’ If only I could meet someone as fun, witty, caring, and **unique** as darling Captain McCrae! Who makes your toes curl us, just _reading_ about them? ---
**Author:** ![carlotta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/898d66/32.png) [@carlotta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carlotta)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-from-a-book-you-just-swoon-over/142413/2 "2002-12-13T03:42:35Z")
Gilbert Blythe…sigh…why does it take so long for Anne to recognize her true feelings? from the Anne of Green Gables series. It takes **three** books for them to get engaged. ---
**Author:** ![Jurhael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@Jurhael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jurhael)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-from-a-book-you-just-swoon-over/142413/3 "2002-12-13T04:14:09Z")
Claude Frollo! 😃 It’s because he’s such a powerful and intelligent character with vast amounts of knowledge. ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-from-a-book-you-just-swoon-over/142413/4 "2002-12-13T04:19:24Z")
Oh, I totally agree with the OP. I love Captain McCrae! I saw the mini-series long before I ever read the books, and I bawled like a baby every time I watched it…finally I just stopped watching that part. ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-from-a-book-you-just-swoon-over/142413/5 "2002-12-13T05:10:38Z")
Philip Marlowe. ---
**Author:** ![zweisamkeit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zweisamkeit/32/4360_2.png) [@zweisamkeit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zweisamkeit)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-from-a-book-you-just-swoon-over/142413/6 "2002-12-13T13:52:19Z")
Darcy in Pride and Prejudice. That sour temper and biting sarcasm, and intelligence and _true_ taste, mmmmmmmmmm! [sub] Darcy even makes me write in sentence fragments ;)[/sub]My heart would _literally_ flutter reading about him, and still does. ---
**Author:** ![Serendipity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@Serendipity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serendipity)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-from-a-book-you-just-swoon-over/142413/7 "2002-12-13T15:51:33Z")
Jamie Fraser from **Outlander** and its sequels. I love him. Desperately. \ ---
**Author:** ![Orual](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/779978/32.png) [@Orual](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orual)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-from-a-book-you-just-swoon-over/142413/8 "2002-12-13T16:06:41Z")
Faramir (_The Lord of the Rings_), Hector (_The Iliad_), The Marquis de Carabas (_Neverwhere_), Aramis (_The Three Musketeers_), But my One True Love is… errr… Schmendrick the Magician from _The Last Unicorn_. :o Oh, I’m the geekiest geek who ever geeked. ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-from-a-book-you-just-swoon-over/142413/9 "2002-12-13T16:08:33Z")
Coeur de Fer in Marquis De Sade’s Justine. He’s so…bad. He’s a criminal…and sex crazed…and yet he acts very gentle and sort of almost nice to Justine, and wants to ‘protect her’ from other scoundrels. (Of course, he wants to do that by owning her, but still!) Swwooooooooooon ---
**Author:** ![Super\_Gnat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@Super\_Gnat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Super_Gnat)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-from-a-book-you-just-swoon-over/142413/10 "2002-12-13T16:09:51Z")
Corran Horn from the Star Wars novels _blush_. ---
**Author:** ![Judith\_Prietht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b19c9b/32.png) [@Judith\_Prietht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Judith_Prietht)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-from-a-book-you-just-swoon-over/142413/11 "2002-12-13T16:11:51Z")
Potentially humiliating disclosure: Jondalar from The Valley of Horses, when I was a young innocent thing. ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-from-a-book-you-just-swoon-over/142413/12 "2002-12-13T16:38:51Z")
Jamie Fraser, definitely. StG ---
**Author:** ![Nichol\_storm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Nichol\_storm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nichol_storm)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-from-a-book-you-just-swoon-over/142413/13 "2002-12-13T17:20:45Z")
Eric from Susan Kay’s “Phantom”. What more needs be said? Sandor, Tyrion, Jon, Jaime, Robb, Gendry, Rhaegar, hell, damn near every male character from George R.R. Martin’s epic “Song of Ice and Fire” series. As a sidenote, I swoon for Daenerys and Sansa, too. Legolas from “Lord of the Rings”. I WANT TO BEAR HIS CHILDREN. John of Gaunt from “Katherine” by Anya Seton. I love him to pieces, though it’s kinda icky considering he’s an ancestor of mine. .:Nichol:. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-from-a-book-you-just-swoon-over/142413/14 "2002-12-13T17:23:56Z")
That’d be a tie between Paksenarrion in the novels by Elizabeth Moon, and V.I. Warshawsky. I likes my women tough, I do… I’m embarassed because I just re-read the Arrows of the Queen trilogy, and I can’t remember the name of the main character… (quick Google search)… Talia! ---
**Author:** ![taichi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea666f/32.png) [@taichi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/taichi)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-from-a-book-you-just-swoon-over/142413/15 "2002-12-13T18:28:26Z")
Heathcliff from Wuthering Heights. You know it that dark, brooding, jealous, haunted, I-shall-DIE-without-you kind of way. That Cathy never deserved him…lol ---
**Author:** ![CBCD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@CBCD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CBCD)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-from-a-book-you-just-swoon-over/142413/16 "2002-12-13T18:34:58Z")
Alessandro Guiliani in Mark Helprin’s A Soldier of the Great War ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-from-a-book-you-just-swoon-over/142413/17 "2002-12-13T18:45:30Z")
Well, besides Mr. Darcy (who goes without saying, really), there’s Lord Peter Wimsey, and, um … Professor Lupin from the third _Harry Potter_. (I can’t believe I just admitted that, by the way.) ---
**Author:** ![Badtz\_Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Badtz\_Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badtz_Maru)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-from-a-book-you-just-swoon-over/142413/18 "2002-12-13T18:47:15Z")
Larissa in Caleb Carr’s ‘Killing Time’ ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-from-a-book-you-just-swoon-over/142413/19 "2002-12-13T18:50:06Z")
Atticus Finch. That voice! Those eyes! That…tallness! Oooh baby! ---
**Author:** ![Greywolf73](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d9b06d/32.png) [@Greywolf73](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greywolf73)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-from-a-book-you-just-swoon-over/142413/20 "2002-12-13T19:16:19Z")
Most defintely Jamie Fraser for me. Gus McGrae runs a close second though. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-from-a-book-you-just-swoon-over/142413.md?page=2)