# Your Literary Crushes **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 29, 2006, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-literary-crushes/358596 "2006-05-29T04:55:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2006, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-literary-crushes/358596/21 "2006-05-30T00:23:16Z")
I’m madly in love with Sam Vimes. More badass than Eastwood and cooler than Bogey, what girl can resist? ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2006, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-literary-crushes/358596/22 "2006-05-30T03:48:14Z")
> [@Marlitharn](#): > > I’m madly in love with Sam Vimes. More badass than Eastwood and cooler than Bogey, what girl can resist? The question is, are you dragon-proof? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2006, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-literary-crushes/358596/23 "2006-05-30T04:37:04Z")
Yeesh. I’m so much of a dork, I don’t even know what you people are talking about (for the most part). ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2006, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-literary-crushes/358596/24 "2006-05-30T08:03:45Z")
Gilbert Hernandez’s La Luba, (and at least half her daughters, most prominently Guadalupe.) ---
**Author:** ![blackhobyah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/41988e/32.png) [@blackhobyah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blackhobyah)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2006, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-literary-crushes/358596/25 "2006-05-30T11:56:04Z")
> [@Arien](#): > > I know this topic has been done before, but not for some time. So what literary character makes your heart go pitter-pat? Francis Lymond - Oh, be still my beating heart. James Cobham from “Freedom and Necessity”. Oh, and not forgetting Hawk, Joe Pike and Reacher. ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2006, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-literary-crushes/358596/26 "2006-05-30T13:54:28Z")
Damn you, **ivylass**. Fine then, I’ll claim Iorek Byrnisson. Yeah, I know, but a more noble, tragic character I don’t think I’ll ever find. Damn, but I love that bear. ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2006, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-literary-crushes/358596/27 "2006-05-30T14:25:25Z")
You’re claiming a bear, right? An armoured bear? Not interested in Jamie, **ivylass**. You can keep him. I want Con from _Sunshine_, and the book Aragorn (not the movie version, please). ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2006, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-literary-crushes/358596/28 "2006-05-30T15:29:06Z")
Percy Blakeney, aka the Scarlet Pimpernel. > [@Smokinjbc](#): > > how could he compare the constant (if sometimes weak and resentful) Captain Wentworth Good call, although I still love Darcy the best. And I like Mr. Knightley from **Emma** ; he’s the kind of handsome couch potato I could go for. When I was younger, I had a thing for that kid Dickon who hung out with the girl in **The Secret Garden** ; Colin grew on me as well. And Calvin O’Keefe in the L’Engle books. (Reviewing them in amazon is really taking me back! nostalgia trip) ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2006, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-literary-crushes/358596/29 "2006-05-30T15:43:27Z")
Francisco d’Anconia and Hank Rearden from **Atlas Shrugged** Gail Wynand from **The Fountainhead** Sirius Black from **Harry Potter** Sherlock Holmes Klyd Farris from Jacqueline Lichtenberg’s \*\*Sime~Gen \*\* series. And I, too, think that Zaphod Beeblebrox would be fun–for awhile. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2006, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-literary-crushes/358596/30 "2006-05-30T15:57:20Z")
> [@Tracy Lord](#): > > **Priceguy** and I will have to contrive to be arrested in Ankh-Morpork: you go for Angua, I’ll be cuffed by Vimes. Lovely plan, except that we’re just as likely to end up in the hands of Nobby and Colon. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2006, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-literary-crushes/358596/31 "2006-05-30T16:45:42Z")
Oh, goody! No one’s taken mine yet… **Vanyel Ashkevron** from Mercedes Lackey’s _The Last Herald-Mage_ trilogy. **Tylendel Frellenye** from the same series. ---
**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:** [May 30, 2006, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-literary-crushes/358596/32 "2006-05-30T17:15:00Z")
Absolutely Francisco d’Anconia from **Atlas Shrugged**. Of course I’m competing with every straight woman and gay man who read the book. ---
**Author:** ![Tracy\_Lord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@Tracy\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tracy_Lord)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2006, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-literary-crushes/358596/33 "2006-05-30T19:06:44Z")
> [@Priceguy](#): > > Lovely plan, except that we’re just as likely to end up in the hands of Nobby and Colon. Good call. Well, we’ll think of something Right Cunning. …one of these days… ---
**Author:** ![Rebecca\_DiMwitter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a87d85/32.png) [@Rebecca\_DiMwitter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebecca_DiMwitter)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2006, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-literary-crushes/358596/34 "2006-05-31T22:30:40Z")
Atticus Finch Colonel Brandon Aureliano Buendia Nick Andros You know. The strong, silent, intellectual type. –Beck ---
**Author:** ![Rebecca\_DiMwitter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a87d85/32.png) [@Rebecca\_DiMwitter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebecca_DiMwitter)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2006, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-literary-crushes/358596/35 "2006-05-31T22:38:52Z")
And for the sheer joy de vivre there’d be in it: BOTH Fred and George Weasley. -Beck ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2006, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-literary-crushes/358596/36 "2006-06-01T00:18:03Z")
[She-Hulk](http://www.marvel.com/universe/She-Hulk) ---
**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:** [June 1, 2006, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-literary-crushes/358596/37 "2006-06-01T03:08:28Z")
Hmm, let me see… Lord Peter Wimsey. Sydney Carton. Herbert Pocket from _Great Expectations_. Richard III, both Josephine Tey and Shakespeare versions (yeah, I know, not technically a fictional character, but close enough). Edmund from _King Lear_. Remus Lupin. Bosola _and_ Antonio from _The Duchess of Malfi_ (for different reasons). Mr. Rochester. And, on the authorial side, John Keats, John Donne, and Ted Hughes. Apparently, I am attracted to an odd mixture of Nice But Taken Boys and Boys Who Are Nothing But Trouble. Go figure. (I’d also be tempted to throw in Colin from _The Secret Garden_ and Simon from _Lord of the Flies_ if it didn’t make me feel like a complete pedophile.) ---
**Author:** ![RachelChristine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7ab992/32.png) [@RachelChristine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RachelChristine)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2006, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-literary-crushes/358596/38 "2006-06-01T03:25:47Z")
ivylass, you can have Jamie, but I want Roger. What a sweetie! And Ian, Sr. alwyas struck me as an awesome guy (if my daughter had been a boy, she’d be Ian). Jamie, I’d be afraid of! To whoever said Dickon Sowerby, I’m with you there. He was so awesome. As a kid I also had a thing for both Almanzo and Royal Wilder, and Laurie Laurence. Oh, and I know this isn’t always popular, but I sure did like Will Stanton too. I also have a huge crush on Archie Goodwin. Yum-my. And Benedict from Much Ado is pretty cool too. ---
**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2006, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-literary-crushes/358596/39 "2006-06-01T04:05:00Z")
Christopher Heron from _The Perilous Gard_ – my most enduring crush. (I first read this book at age 11…so it’s been strong for 17 years). Nat from _The Witch of Blackbird Pond_ (Don’t be grossed out, now…) The Hound from _A Song of Ice and Fire_. AND Littlefinger ( **ACC\_Expat** , Amok’s portrait did it for me, too! And he’s so eeeevil!) Petruchio (especially as portrayed by Jasper Britton in the RSC production I saw a few years ago…_sigh_) Mr. Rochester, of course. Mr. Thornton from _North and South_ Roger Hamley from _Wives and Daughters_ (OK, here’s another sick one…) Henleigh Grandcourt from _Daniel Deronda_ (Don’t hate me! He just has so much…power…) ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2006, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-literary-crushes/358596/40 "2006-06-01T15:07:26Z")
Literary? Hmm… Anne, of Green Gables fame Miyazaki’s Kushana from the manga Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind Tinker, from Wen Spencer’s Tinker Bettie Paige (So she’s not fictional, not really. Sue me.) Princess Cimmorene, from Patricia Wrede’s Enchanted Forest Chronicles [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-literary-crushes/358596.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-literary-crushes/358596.md?page=3)