# Your Literary Crushes

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-literary-crushes/358596>\
**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:** 5\
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**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:** [June 8, 2006, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-literary-crushes/358596/81 "2006-06-08T14:03:03Z")

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> [@jali](#):
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> Drzzzt D\_\_\_\_\_ -The Dark Elf series.

\<gamer geek\>Drizzt Do’Urden\</gamer geek\>

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**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2006, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-literary-crushes/358596/82 "2006-06-08T14:05:53Z")

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Not exactly a crush, but I read _To Kill a Mockingbird_ in the sixth grade (and every year since…) and I always wanted to be Atticus Finch’s child. My family life was so f\*\*\*ed up, and he seemed so stable and loving.

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**Author:** ![Sevastopol](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cdc98d/32.png) [@Sevastopol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sevastopol)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2006, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-literary-crushes/358596/83 "2006-06-08T14:43:21Z")

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1. La Belle Dame Sans Merci. She hath me in thrall:

2. She walks in darkness … and all that’s best of dark and bright:

3. Seconding Nately’s Whore, brief maidenly piety:

4. Becky Sharp. Vanity’s fair.

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**Author:** ![jali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@jali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jali)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2006, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-literary-crushes/358596/84 "2006-06-08T15:49:22Z")

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> [@jayjay](#):
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> \<gamer geek\>Drizzt Do’Urden\</gamer geek\>

[geek-geek}Thanks jayjay. _Jali Do’Urden_… nice ring [/geek-geek]

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**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:** [June 8, 2006, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-literary-crushes/358596/85 "2006-06-08T16:11:04Z")

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> [@jali](#):
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> [geek-geek}Thanks jayjay. _Jali Do’Urden_… nice ring [/geek-geek]

Yeah, but the in-laws are a REAL bitch!

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