For The L♥ve of Reading discussion

character or characters you've encountered in a book?

who sticks with you and why?

i have to say some memorable characters for me are:

madame bovary
mr. darcy
hester prynne
holden caulfield

who do you like? or just remember?

Jacob black
Matilda goodnight
Davy dempsey
Ian o'shea
Wanda
Dracula
Jane eyre

Trudi Montag
Harry Potter
Anne Shirley
Jo March
Scout Finch

Jace and Clary for the MI series. They are great books and I love everything about their characters and the books all together.
And Patch from Hush Hush....I just picture him to be sooo Hot!!!!

Karli wrote: "Trudi Montag
Harry Potter
Anne Shirley
Jo March
Scout Finch"

trudi montag from Stones from the River? did i remember that correctly?

The Baudelaire children
Anne Shirley
Harry Potter
Edward & Bella
Grace & Sam (From Shiver)
Magnus Bane
Hermonie Granger
Sabriel (From Sabriel)
Katniss Everdeen
Peeta Mellark
Tally Youngblood
Ian O'Shea
Elizabeth Bennet

I love a strong (meaning that they do what needs to be done and doesn't whine too much about it) female character and all the female characters listed stuck with me for that reason. Sam, Peeta, Ian, Edward (book only not movie), Magnus, Harry Potter and Klaus Baudelaire all fall under male characters with personalities I adore. I just loved loved loved their characters!

Sam, Ian & Peeta are endeeringly sweet. Magnus is a smart ass, but generally caring. Klaus is a little boy in the face of a big situation. Edward loved so much. Harry Potter was... complicated.

jen,

way to kick out a list! great choices!

Elizabeth wrote: "character or characters you've encountered in a book?

who sticks with you and why?

i have to say some memorable characters for me are:

madame bovary
mr. darcy
hester prynne
holden..."

why is hester pryne on that list? what did she do to be there?

Elizabeth wrote: "Karli wrote: "Trudi Montag
Harry Potter
Anne Shirley
Jo March
Scout Finch"

trudi montag from Stones from the River? did i remember that correctly?"

Yes - that was the book that drove my thesis. The concept of Other is very compelling for me.

I really liked Hester Prynne too, she was so strong and independent.

In no particular order:
1. Eowyn and Samwise Gamgee (LOTR)
2. Richard Dudgeon (Devil's Desciple)
3. Ivan (Karamazov Brothers)
4. Jack Tanner (Man and Superman)
5. Hamlet (Hamlet)
6. Mrs. Warren (Mrs Warren's Proffession)
7. Good Bishop of Digne and Fantine (Les Miserables)
8. 3 witches (MacBeth)
9. Hermes (Bulfinch's Mythology, Quicksilver, Iliad, etc.)
10. Don Quixote (Don Quixote)
11. Scheherazade (The Arabian Nights)
12. Luna Lovegood and Neville Longbottom (Harry Potter series)
13. The Grinch (The Grinch who stole Christmas)
14. Sherlock Holmes (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes)
15. Percy Blakeney (The Scarlet Pimpernel)

I really loved Luna Lovegood. I liked the fact that she didn't really care what other people thought, she was still so sure of herself.

Paperd0ll *evil fiddler*Tisiphone* wrote: "Elizabeth wrote: "character or characters you've encountered in a book?

who sticks with you and why?

i have to say some memorable characters for me are:

leonor,

how could you not love hester? that girl has tenacity and she's got spunk! the way she responded to her situation was WAY ahead of its time. i love her! and what about her evil spawn pearl? you have to give props to a mom with a daughter like that!

madame bovary
mr. darcy
hester pryn..."

Luna Love good is even great in the movies. I loved the part about her missing her shoes and she told Harry that they always come wondering back to her.

What a great way to live!

I'll have to think about characters and get back to everyone with my choices.

She was my hero. I have always loved quirky characters and she is so unique, and not afraid to show it!

Elizabeth wrote: "Paperd0ll *evil fiddler*Tisiphone* wrote: "Elizabeth wrote: "character or characters you've encountered in a book?

who sticks with you and why?

i have to say some memorable characters fo..."

meh...i just dont...

Ok but who do you love? Share.

I love:

Mr Darcy (Pride and Prejudice)
Emma (Emma)
Anne Eliot (Persuasion)
Matilda (Matilda)
the BFG (the bfg)
Jane Eyre (Jane Eyre)
Jo (little women)
Mo (inkheart)
Jace (mortal instruments)
Raven (vampire kisses)
Grover (percy jackson)
Lisbeth Salander (millenium)
mary Boleyn (the other boleyn girl)
lucy and eustace (the chronicles of narnia)

mary boleyn!! the girl rocked didn't she? jane eyre. good one. i also love emma. i love the movie version of emma.

me too, it was great.all jane austen movie adaptations are really well done

I love Jo! I can't believe I forgot about her!

okay so I sat down and thought about and have composed a list of some of my favourite character's:

Beautiful Creature: Ethan, Lena and Macon
Hush Hush: Patch
The MI series: Jace, clary and Magnus
The Hunger Gmaes series: Katmiss and Peeta
Twilight series: Edward, Bella, JAcob and Alice
House of Night series: Zoey and Aphrodite
The Uglies series: Tally and Shay
The Devouring series: Reggie

ooh i love macon

an magnus, how could i forget magnus?!stupid me

Sometimes its hard to track all the fav characters down between so many books. To think of the characters I had to go back to my read list and look at the book covers to remember some of them!!

yeah definitely!

**Carla** wrote: "okay so I sat down and thought about and have composed a list of some of my favourite character's:

Beautiful Creature: Ethan, Lena and Macon
Hush Hush: Patch
The MI series: Jace, clary and Mag..."

I agree with the first three. I love those books and all of the characters.
For Twilight: I'm a Jacob fan and Jasper.
Alex Cross (James Patterson's books)
Mona Lisa (Monère: Children of the Moon by Sunny)
All of the Dark Hunters (Sherrilyn Kenyon series)
Jason Bourne (Bourne Identity)
Faythe Sanders (Stray series)
Noah (The Notebook)
Will (The Last Song)
Nykyrian Quiakides & Sheridan Digger Wade (AKA C.I. Syn) (League Series by Sherrilyn Kenyon)
&
Alexia Tarabotti, Lord Maccon (Soulless)

I'm sure there are more but these are the characters that are at the top of my brain. I stuck in a Q-tip and pulled them out. LOL!

of recent reads, i love calpurnia tate. she's got some spunk!

@Elyssa - Did you like Soulless? After I finish the book I'm on now, that is my next read.

I loved Soulless. It was unique and wonderful all rolled into one. I highly recommend it and I do often.

Awesome! I'm excited.

Let me know what you think of it once you are done. I tend to get really excited about books that I like and enjoy so much.

OMG, Elyssa! It's so good! I'm 200 pages in already and I started about 11:00 a.m. this morn. I am absolutely salivating over it. I wish my girls went to bed at 5:00 instead of 8 so I could finish it. *bounces up and down* I don't know if I can wait til then...grrrr Lord Maacon!

I'm so happy that I raved over the book. I got Changeless. I haven't gotten to it but I know it is going to be great as well!

I am so EXCITED for Changeless. It's not at the library (of course :o) so I will have to buy it, but its okay. Its definitely worth it. Gail Carriger is having a contest for Changeless and posting reviews on your sites. There are some really good prizes. Here is the link to the info: http://gailcarriger.livejournal.com/1...

Rhett & Scarlett

The characters of Harry Potter (haven't read the last 2 yet)

Miranda from The Tempest
Iago from Othello

You have to read the last too!

Cyrus Smith in The Mysterious Island since my childhood

Jean Valjean in Les Misérables

The author in Tropic of Cancer

Mrs Ramsay in To the Lighthouse