Books, Movies, Music & Entertainment - What's your all-time favorite character from a book?

this is a fast note I should spend more time in writing, but I'm late for something ...

So: in all your most favorite-est books (or, heck, movies or operas or cave drawings), which character did you wish you could be, growing up? which one did you pretend to be while playing? or, even now, which character just really, totally lives the life you'd like to have lived?

there's a reason I'm asking, but I gotta run!

-alex.

There are so many, the Whisky priest form the Power and the Glory, the bad ass from Blood Meridian, I love Sherman Alexie's characters

Hello! My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father, prepare to die...

call me crazy but I always wanted to be a drunken spaniard

call me crazy but I always wanted to be a drunken spaniard
Why??

That would definitely have to be Remo Williams from the Destroyer series. Gee I haven't read a Destroyer book (if you can classify them as books) in probably twenty years! In the same period Mack Bolan (Executioner series) runs a close second to Remo. All junk reading but they were fun!

Asterix the Gaul!

Cabledonut.

Lazarus Long, Micheal Valentine Smith, Friday, The book version James Bond, Indiana Jones, Tyler Durden, Yoda, smeagol, bunches of others. Can't say I really wanted to be them(well maybe a few) but i had to admire the character of the, well character.

All Stephen King's characters

The boy that hopped on his pop in Dr. Seuss' "Hop on Pop"

I guess the life I would like to lead is best exemplified more by certain authors, rather than fictional characters. Ernest Hemingway, Russel Annabel, Zane Grey and Elmer Keith come immediately to my mind as guys who were around in the first half of the twentieth century, able to get to remote places not yet touched by commercialism, places that are so different today that they don't even exist anymore really. These guys fished, hunted, camped and lived in a world that's gone now.

When I first read your question, I thought of my favorite fictional charecter, not that I would want to be him. It would have to be Joseph Heller's Yossarian from Catch 22. "I see everything twice!".

The character I most admire? Jean Valjean from Hugo's Les Mes.

Ignatious Reilly (he has a middle initial, but I have forgotten it) from A Confederacy of Dunces. Not exactly an admirable character, but certainly a memorable one.

Ignatious Reilly (he has a middle initial, but I have forgotten it) from A Confederacy of Dunces. Not exactly an admirable character, but certainly a memorable one.

I read that book a couple of years ago and all I remember about it was that it was pretty funny. Strikes me that Ignatious was a lot like that guy I see in the previews for My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiance. This is the first reality tv that I'm actually considering watching...

Max-Where the wild things are-Maurice Sendak.
Roquentin-Sartre-Nausea.

My favourite character purely from an entertainment perspective would have to be Gaspode the Wonder Dog (after the famous Gaspode) in Terry Pratchett's 'Moving Pictures', but all of Pratchett's characters have an irresistable charm for me. It's hard to pick one.

The character I most admire from my recent readings would have to be Andrew Wiggin, especially as he appeared in 'Speaker For The Dead'.

Italo Calvino’s Marco Polo in his 1972 novel Invisible Cities comes to mind as a great character I would like to be. The great aging Kublai Khan asks the young Marco Polo to describe the cities in his empire. Marco spends months with Kublai Khan describing cities in far off places with his home of Venice always being his point of reference.

Holden Caulfield. It's been over 30 years since I first read Catcher in the Rye and it still cracks me up (in more ways than 1) each time I re-read it. Named my youngest son Holden.

Odysseus.

Bike666: I almost said Holden Caufield myself. I had to give a dramatic reading for Rhetoric as an undergrad and I did the part where Holden is telling about the guy who rips a fart in chapel. God, that still cracks me up.

Sherlock Holmes. What a mind! What an ego!

Ignatius J. Reilly. I've heard scuttlebutt that a movie is in the works for A Confederacy of Dunces, and that Will Farrell is being considered for the role of Ignatius. I pray fervently that this is not true.

Beowulf Shaeffer and Louis Wu, both characters in Larry Niven's Known Space universe. Resourcefulness and chutzpah to burn, have these two.

Ford Prefect, unflappable Guide to the Galaxy.

Doc Savage. Intellect, muscle, and a strict moral code. I'm a helpless hetero, and I'd date the guy.

There are more, but I'm gettin' sleepy.

Dirk Pitt the unflapable hero from Clive Cussler.

Gnossos Pappadopolous, Beowolf Shaefer (sp?), Chevette, Lazarus Long, Berry Rydell.
Travis Mcgee is right up there at the top too.
Don Quixote, Elric of Melnibone.

Robcat - a couple of years ago it was supposed to be John Goodman. They'll never get around to doing it. Great book; hate to have H-wood ruin it.

Robcat - a couple of years ago it was supposed to be John Goodman. They'll never get around to doing it. Great book; hate to have H-wood ruin it.

Much as I like Goodman, he doesn't work for me as Ignatius any more than does Will Farrell. I hope they just leave it alone!

Of course if they do produce a movie, I'll have to see it. :rolleyes:

Ignatius J. Reilly[/B]. I've heard scuttlebutt that a movie is in the works for A Confederacy of Dunces, and that Will Farrell is being considered for the role of Ignatius. I pray fervently that this is not true.

There's no way Will Farrell could play Ignatious.



Doc Savage. Intellect, muscle, and a strict moral code. I'm a helpless hetero, and I'd date the guy.

Doc Savage books were all the rage when I was in 7th and 8th grade (let's not think about how long ago that was). There was a character in these books who was known for his precisely neat way of dressing; all of us in school though he was the best (can't remember the character's name, though).

Doc Savage books were all the rage when I was in 7th and 8th grade (let's not think about how long ago that was). There was a character in these books who was known for his precisely neat way of dressing; all of us in school though he was the best (can't remember the character's name, though).

Brigadier General Theodore Marley Brooks, aka 'Ham'. So says The 86th Floor, Unofficial Website of Doc Savage (http://members.aol.com/the86floor/novels/bham.html).

I love the internet! :p

Ayn Rand's John Galt

Ford Prefect, of The Hitchikers Guid to The Galaxy.

That man knows how to take life and enjoy it to the fullest limits of enjoyment. Plus he's got a mean attack-towel move.