# 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:** 19\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2003, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-from-a-book-you-just-swoon-over/142413/81 "2003-01-05T02:59:24Z")
Soda pop, Darry and Two Bit from \*The Outsiders \*. I was hot for all three of them for three different reasons. ---
**Author:** ![Krisfer\_the\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Krisfer\_the\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Krisfer_the_Cat)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2003, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-from-a-book-you-just-swoon-over/142413/82 "2003-01-05T04:46:18Z")
My all time I-wanna-do-him crush goes to Melrose Plant of Martha Grimes books. He is silly, sarcastic and incredibly intelligent. OH MAN! Number two is Marius the vampire… I dunno… he just rocks my boat… I dread to confess I was having naughty thoughts about Joshua in Christopher Moore’s book **Lamb** the story of Christ as told by his best buddy Biff… ---
**Author:** ![Regina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d78d45/32.png) [@Regina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regina)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2003, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-from-a-book-you-just-swoon-over/142413/83 "2003-01-05T04:48:56Z")
Totally un-literary and kind of weird: Lestat On preview I see Krisfer the Cat beat me to the vampire thing. ---
**Author:** ![Krisfer\_the\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Krisfer\_the\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Krisfer_the_Cat)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2003, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-from-a-book-you-just-swoon-over/142413/84 "2003-01-05T05:01:00Z")
Nah, Lestat is too in love with **HIMSELF!** Marius is… well deep… I like deep men… God I need to get me a life The new and improved vampiric David Talbot is sexy as well… just want to upset all that “proper” britishness…😃 ---
**Author:** ![Omorka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/50afbb/32.png) [@Omorka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omorka)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2003, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-from-a-book-you-just-swoon-over/142413/85 "2003-01-05T12:34:30Z")
Promiscuously falling deeply in love, or at least in lust, with fictional characters is a longstanding bad habit of mine . . . lessee here . . . Current longings: Severus Snape of the Harry Potter books (and I’d read him with Alan Rickman’s voice since before he was cast for the movie) and all four hobbits from LoTR (another PHF here!). Oh, and Vlad Taltos from Brust’s “Jhereg” stories. (Am I a total geek or what?) Past ones: Tommy Janssen from Spider Robinson’s various “Callahan’s” books; Sandre, Duke of Astibar from Guy Gavriel Kay’s **Tigana** ; and, uh, when I was a teenager, Skywise and Rayek from Wendi and Richard Pini’s “Elfquest” series. ---
**Author:** ![Terrorcotta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dbc845/32.png) [@Terrorcotta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrorcotta)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2003, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-from-a-book-you-just-swoon-over/142413/86 "2003-01-05T15:17:14Z")
mmmmmm . . . Prince Corwin from ‘Nine Princes in Amber’ . . . mmmmmm . . . ---
**Author:** ![Terrorcotta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dbc845/32.png) [@Terrorcotta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrorcotta)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2003, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-from-a-book-you-just-swoon-over/142413/87 "2003-01-05T15:19:31Z")
'course I believe I would give a considerable chunk of soul for a chance at Vampire Hunter D! (…slurp!) ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2003, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-from-a-book-you-just-swoon-over/142413/88 "2003-01-05T15:23:03Z")
Another vote for Darcy …Ooo oo Horatio Hornblower ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2003, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-from-a-book-you-just-swoon-over/142413/89 "2003-01-05T15:23:03Z")
Another vote for Darcy …Ooo oo Horatio Hornblower ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2003, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-from-a-book-you-just-swoon-over/142413/90 "2003-01-05T15:24:14Z")
sorry for the double post:D ---
**Author:** ![Epigramcracker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5e9695/32.png) [@Epigramcracker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Epigramcracker)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2003, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-from-a-book-you-just-swoon-over/142413/91 "2003-01-05T16:47:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jurhael \* > **Claude Frollo! 😃** O.O we are talking about the soloist of “Hellfire” in the disney version of said character’s book, right? (not that the hunchback of notre dame isn’t the best disney movie ever. no really, it is.) as for me… **FisherQueen**! I totally agree with you re. Sir Percy Blakeney–woo! (esp. the TV Scarlet Pimpernels w/ Richard E. Grant. :D) And Nicholas Nickleby in book of said name. No contest. _siiigh._ And Philip Herriton in _Where Angels Fear to Tread_ by E. M. Forster. Oh god. What a book. ---
**Author:** ![Epigramcracker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5e9695/32.png) [@Epigramcracker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Epigramcracker)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2003, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-from-a-book-you-just-swoon-over/142413/92 "2003-01-05T16:50:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by arisu \* > \*\* > Schmendrick the Magician from _The Last Unicorn_. :o Oh, I’m the geekiest geek who ever geeked. \*\* Oh my god. I just had to quote that because. Because SCHMENDRICK! Oh jeez. So, yeah, you’re MY hero. ^O^ ---
**Author:** ![rapunZeolite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@rapunZeolite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rapunZeolite)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2003, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-from-a-book-you-just-swoon-over/142413/93 "2003-01-05T19:24:20Z")
i would have to say robby from “on the bright side im now the gf of a sex god.” he’s pretty…shall we say…_dreamy_ u know, i also favor legolas, but sadly i cannot tell a lie: i have not read the books, and my _all but pure_ love is probably actually for orlando bloom and his kick-ass moves…all tho, im starting to want him to keep his long blonde hair… -\*forever the freshness haneliz ---
**Author:** ![So\_Pale\_and\_Wan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3e96dc/32.png) [@So\_Pale\_and\_Wan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/So_Pale_and_Wan)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2003, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-from-a-book-you-just-swoon-over/142413/94 "2003-01-05T19:45:26Z")
Hello all - this is my first post 🙂 I had never had a literary crush until I read the third Potter book and met Prof. Lupin. The part where he was sweet and helpful to Neville totally won me over. Of course, after seeing the movies I now have an even bigger crush on Snape , or rather Alan Rickman, but Lupin was purely from the book. ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2003, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-from-a-book-you-just-swoon-over/142413/95 "2003-01-05T22:13:30Z")
Roland from The Dark Tower books. ---
**Author:** ![big\_alex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e56c9b/32.png) [@big\_alex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/big_alex)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2003, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-from-a-book-you-just-swoon-over/142413/96 "2003-01-07T22:09:06Z")
Mine would have to be Laurie from little women and Captain Vimes from the discworld novels Oh and George from of mice and men ---
**Author:** ![crinklebat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dec6dc/32.png) [@crinklebat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crinklebat)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-from-a-book-you-just-swoon-over/142413/97 "2003-01-11T08:41:27Z")
Clea from the Alexandria Quartet. ---
**Author:** ![Shana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3bc359/32.png) [@Shana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shana)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-from-a-book-you-just-swoon-over/142413/98 "2003-01-11T09:18:29Z")
Yes, yes, yes, to Mr. Darcy. Jane Austin rocks. Aragorn was hotter in the book. Legolas was wayyyy hotter in the movie however…mmmm Orlando Bloom why are you too young for me?? Atticus Finch was hotter in the book, but you can’t beat Gregory Peck for eye candy. I need to read these Outlander books, huh?!? ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-from-a-book-you-just-swoon-over/142413/99 "2003-01-11T10:24:32Z")
Another one for Jamie Fraser, Legolas Greenleaf and Severus Snape. Also Schmendrick is just a sweety, I _love_ him! For a first in this thread… Masterharper Robinton. Even as an old guy he was cool. Oh and Joscelin from Kushiel’s Dart/Chosen. I want _him_ as my Perfect Companion. Or perhaps not so perfect 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-from-a-book-you-just-swoon-over/142413.md?page=4)