# Characters from books you would like to beat the s\*#t out of them **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 8, 2013, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-from-books-you-would-like-to-beat-the-s-t-out-of-them/670650 "2013-10-08T03:56:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2013, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-from-books-you-would-like-to-beat-the-s-t-out-of-them/670650/61 "2013-10-22T17:26:06Z")
Stephen King has a staple character type in his books e.g. Greg Stillson in _The Dead Zone,_ Ann Anderson in _The Tommyknockers,_ the abusive boyfriend (whose name I can’t bother to look up) in _It,_ Roland LeBay in _Christine_, “Buster” Keaton in _Needful Things_ whose credo is basically **My Way or the highway - and come to think of it, I’ll take the highway, too.** Hateful, unreasonable, uncompromising people who, even if they are not necessarily the villain/monster of the story, just make life in general unpleasant for everybody. I have the urge to get on my riding mower and give these people The Big Haircut. Grrrrr. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2013, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-from-books-you-would-like-to-beat-the-s-t-out-of-them/670650/62 "2013-10-22T20:01:33Z")
There’s a new meme in fantasy/romance that of a woman who is her own person. Great, we likes it. But then, every time a friend gives her good advice or a boss a reasonable order, then she MUST do the exact freaken opposite, often leading to disaster. And then her boss and friends- once you have seen this occur a zillions time, why not: “Hmm, if she jumps off that cliff it will really hurt and we don’t want her to do that. Ok- Lady you MUST jump off that cliff right now, it’s a order!”. All of them (author included) need a good bitch-slapping. Rachel Caine- you and your protagonist Joanne Baldwin are first. ---
**Author:** ![Tante\_Dillie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Tante\_Dillie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tante_Dillie)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2013, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-from-books-you-would-like-to-beat-the-s-t-out-of-them/670650/63 "2013-10-22T21:19:00Z")
Jo in _Little Women_. How could she let Amy have Laurie? And yes, I know that LMA very likely had lesbian tendencies and that she didn’t want her alter ego Jo to marry any man at all and that she only introduced Prof Bhaer at her publisher’s insistance. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2013, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-from-books-you-would-like-to-beat-the-s-t-out-of-them/670650/64 "2013-10-23T07:10:04Z")
Javert, from \*Les Misérables. \*Come on, man, it was a fucking loaf of bread. ---
**Author:** ![bengangmo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@bengangmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bengangmo)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2013, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-from-books-you-would-like-to-beat-the-s-t-out-of-them/670650/65 "2013-10-23T08:56:37Z")
> [@bump](#): > > Beyond that, he was a dick on top of it. > > I remember reading the book in high school and thinking that if he went to our school, that I’d beat him senseless. And I wasn’t a bully or much of a fighter at all. Pleased to know I wasn’t the only one that hated both the story and Holden… FWIW…there is also a Dean Koontz book with a Holden Caufield as a key character ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2013, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-from-books-you-would-like-to-beat-the-s-t-out-of-them/670650/66 "2013-10-23T13:27:23Z")
Gotta mention - from TV - Jack in _24_. A beating isn’t enough. He deserves death! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-from-books-you-would-like-to-beat-the-s-t-out-of-them/670650.md?page=3)