# Your favorite literary characters **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 23, 2002, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-literary-characters/99654 "2002-03-23T02:21:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![crazy4chaucer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b5e925/32.png) [@crazy4chaucer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crazy4chaucer)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2002, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-literary-characters/99654/61 "2002-03-27T17:20:09Z")
Mea culpa. I know that, my brain just wasn’t working. Meg Murry & Charles Wallace Murry. Okay. Sorry! :o ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2002, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-literary-characters/99654/62 "2002-03-27T20:22:53Z")
Geez, the few that I like have already been said except The Count of Montie Cristo. The other one that I like is Earl Swagger, the father to Bob Swagger already said by yojimboguy. It seems the two of us like a lot of the same books. There have been some others but I can’t remember them off the top of my head. ---
**Author:** ![unwashed\_brain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/a9adbd/32.png) [@unwashed\_brain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unwashed_brain)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2002, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-literary-characters/99654/63 "2002-03-27T21:57:33Z")
**The narrator** from Fight Club, by Chuck Palahniuk. **Thomas Covenant** from The (two) Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever by Stephen R. Donaldson. **Severian (and Baldanders)** from The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe. **Jesus Christ** from The Bible. just kidding on that last one. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2002, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-literary-characters/99654/64 "2002-03-27T23:00:56Z")
How could I forget **Anne Shirley** from _Anne of Green Gables_? ---
**Author:** ![Frenzy1023](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc29f/32.png) [@Frenzy1023](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frenzy1023)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2002, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-literary-characters/99654/65 "2002-03-27T23:03:50Z")
Harry D’Amour and Kissoon from The Great and Secret Show by clive barker I didnt see him on here, so if they have already been mentioned consider it a second to the motion, but Ford Prefect and Zaphod Breeblebox(sp?). ---
**Author:** ![JessEnigma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cdc98d/32.png) [@JessEnigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JessEnigma)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-literary-characters/99654/66 "2002-03-28T03:08:49Z")
I’ve got to second the Wife of Bath. She’s just cool…in a rather odd way. My other personal favorites are from Madeleine L’Engle’s books, both her fantasy stuff and the “real world” work: Calvin O’Keefe: Such a nice guy! I just want to hug him. He’s just an all-around great person _and_ he’s smart. Canon Tallis: A very intriguing man. I’ve read _Arm of the Starfish_ and _Dragons in the Waters_ several times and he is just a puzzle each time. Very interesting… Adam Eddington: I just want to hug him too. He reminds me of Calvin because he is a nice guy too…though a bit of the angsting sort. And he talks to dolphins. Always a plus. jessica, peering at the copy of _Many Waters_ sitting next to her and following the chart of people ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2002, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-literary-characters/99654/67 "2002-03-29T15:33:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Doghouse Reilly \* > \*\* > > For me, it’s Granny Weatherwax all the way. \*\* Actually, I love all the witches. Hard for me to pick a favorite, though I do seem to lean toward Granny. (I think she’s the one I’m most like.) And Greebo’s pretty cool, if he can be counted as a character. ---
**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-literary-characters/99654/68 "2002-03-30T00:52:41Z")
Maybe he doesn’t count as ‘literary’, but I’ll have to add **Calvin** from _Calvin and Hobbes_. 😃 Another I remembered after my post above is **Barlennan** from _Mission of Gravity_ by Hal Clement (he has class, even if he does look like a squashed caterpillar). ---
**Author:** ![Jello](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f05b48/32.png) [@Jello](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jello)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-literary-characters/99654/69 "2002-03-30T03:47:25Z")
Yossarian and Clevinger from _Catch-22_ . Hunter S. Thompson (aka Raoul Duke) from everything he wrote, whether he’s lying or not. Uncle Duke from Doonesbury. Captain Queeg from _The Caine Mutiny_ . J. Alfred Prufrock. ---
**Author:** ![shagadelicmysteryman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ea924/32.png) [@shagadelicmysteryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shagadelicmysteryman)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-literary-characters/99654/70 "2002-03-30T03:58:50Z")
**Jack Ryan** –Tom Clancy **D’artagnan** –Alexandre Dumas **Jacob Barnes** –Hemmingway… Oh, he reminds me so much of me. Just tell the damn girl you love her! **Hazel Motes** –Flannery O’Connor He was such a funny bad tempered man…😛 Oh, yeah, almost forgot **Herbie Hancock** –United States Constitution:) ---
**Author:** ![cainxinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@cainxinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cainxinth)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-literary-characters/99654/71 "2002-03-30T04:10:02Z")
Hank Reardon in Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand Grand Admiral Thrawn in Heir to the Empire by Timothy Zahn Dan in Microserfs by Douglas Coupland Ray Kurzweil in The Age of Spiritual Machines by Ray Kurzweil the last one doesn’t really count, but i love that book. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-literary-characters/99654.md?page=3)