Yeah, I said multiple characters, because…well, sometimes you can’t just limit yourself to one. Any characters, really, good or bad, evil or non…
Mine are:
[li]Arnie Cunningham, from Christine- What can I say, I often identify with the underdog type. And I liked his transformation in this novel.[/li]
[li]Jack Torrance, The Shining- really sympathetic portrayal of a guy trying to keep his world from falling apart, IMHO.[/li]
[li]Todd, from “Apt Pupil”- that guy was just so damned disturbing…:)[/li]
Yours?
Without a doubt, Harold Lauder from The Stand. That character is so much like me, it’s eerie (except I was never fat.) He totally got a raw deal in the end.
“To give away pride and hate is to say you will change for the good of the world. To embrace them, to vent them, is more noble; that is to say that the world must change for the good of you.”
George Steele? Was that the fictitious character brought to life in the Dark Half? There was also the drug mule, football playing, med student stranded on the island with the haul of coke in Survivor type. And of course, the pregnant girl in The Breathing Method.
I almost forgot the guy in the short story who tries to avenge his wife’s assassination by the mafia. I think someone has picked up the movie rights to this one but I can’t remember who is playing who.∑
Roland (Dark Tower), Glen Bateman (The Stand), Nick Andros (The Stand). There was also the ex-drunk editor in “Ballad of the Flexible Bullet” (which also explains why I have fornits living in my keyboard).
Dolan’s Cadillac. And I think Kevin Bacon was going to play the widower Robinson.
I also liked the three kids in The House on Maple Street, the one where the house slowly transforms itself into a spaceship and then blasts off one day.
