Favorite characters in literature.

[Arsen]

Roland Deschain and Walter O' Dim - These characters have such depth as two complete opposites.

Macbeth - Such a tragic downfall so beautifully portrayed. The twist at the end...with the "woods moving in around" was a great ending.

 

[Nugoo]

Bean, from Ender's Game, and Terry Pratchett's Rincewind.

 

[Raven_Letters]

Samuel Vimes - Terry Pratchett

 

[corporate_gamer]

Bubba from the Dennis Lehane books.

 

[darthsmily]

Bean, from Ender's Game, and Terry Pratchett's Rincewind.

Samuel Vimes - Terry Pratchett

These.

 

[sequio]

Roland Deschain and Walter O' Dim - These characters have such depth as two complete opposites.

Macbeth - Such a tragic downfall so beautifully portrayed. The twist at the end...with the "woods moving in around" was a great ending.

"That lies like truth: 'Fear not, till Birnam wood Do come to Dunsinane:' and now a wood comes toward Dunsinane."

The first time i read that was a "holy shit" moment for me.

Mine is Logan from Faulkner's "As I Lay Dying"

 

[LewsTherin]

Mat Cauthon, A'Lan Mandragoran, Belgarath, and, of course, Drizzt.

 

[Zac_Dai]

Jim from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad.

 

[Erana]

Jesus.
I'm sorry, but Jesus kicks ass.
I mean, he's one of the most ancient, truly 1337* characters in literature.
Being the son of the only God, water into wine, having an ancient auto-phoenix ability, 'n what not.
You don't have to be a Christian to appreciate that aspect of the religion.
Jesus>Sephiropth.

*said "word" was italicized because it is a non-English word.

 

[Abedeus]

Samuel Vimes - Terry Pratchett

That, and Death. Also Pratchett.

 

[UberMore]

Roland Deschain.

One of the best charecters ever, partially because it's hard to determine if he's a good guy or a bad guy; kills so much to get to the Tower.

The Mercenary (right spelling?) from the Bartimeaus Trilogy because he's shrouded in so much mystery n is never fully explained, which makes him all the cooler

 

[Dubiousduke]

Yossarian in Catch-22 and Closing time.

Artemis Entreri and Erevis Cale from Forgotten Realms.

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[Rusty Bucket]

Mat Cauthon, A'Lan Mandragoran, Belgarath, and, of course, Drizzt.

Agree completely with the first two. I was wondering if that's where your name came from.

Edit: Forgot to actually add something to the thread. I'd say Karsa Orlong and Anomander Rake from the Malazan Book of the Fallen series.

 

[oni565]

Pip from great expectations.

 

[mark_n_b]

There are an awful lot:

Anne Shirley of Anne of Green Gables (the first one)

Howard and Peter from the Fountainhead

Elizabeth and Jane Bennet Pride and Prejudice

Javert of Les Miserbles (villian or not he is six shades of awesome)

Porfiry Petrovich and Dmitri from Crime and Punishment (I have to reread that, Porfiry is so smuggly clever, man, I loved that guy)

Penelope of the Penelopiad (I like to imagine her as prettier than the literature suggests she is, such a beautiful character, and I figure there has to be more of a reason than land ownership she had all those suitors when Oedipus was away looking for golden furry stuff)

 

[Spartan Bannana]

Who is John Galt?

 

[LewsTherin]

Jesus>Sephiropth.

Win.

 

[curlycrouton]

Roland Deschain and Walter O' Dim - These characters have such depth as two complete opposites.

Macbeth - Such a tragic downfall so beautifully portrayed. The twist at the end...with the "woods moving in around" was a great ending.

I agree with you about Macbeth, such a great piece of literature. But, as you can probably tell by my avatar, I am a Shakespeare fanatic.

My favourite character from literature would have to be either Caliban from Shakespeare's The Tempest, or Prospero, of the same origin.

Or perhaps Adam Ewing, from David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas, an American notary in the 1850s.

 

[DrunkenKitty]

Roland from Stephen King's The Gunslinger.
Goldmund from Hermann Hesse's Narcissus and Goldmund.
Raistlin from Weis and Hickman's Dragonlance.
Alvin from Orson Scott Card's Alvin Maker series.