Favorite and most memorable characters - Page 2

07-07-2000, 07:48 PM

The title says it all... any character from any book.

For me, under most memorable... well, aside from the many, many memorable characters in LOTR, that is (especially Gollum)... I can still think of a lot. Hercule Poirot comes to mind, as do Philip Marlowe, Dirk Pitt and the Scarecrow from the Oz books, as well as a whole lot of others... but they're all well-remembered because they're in multiple books in a continuous series. As for characters that were only in one work? I'd say Sam Spade, Scarlett O'Hara, Ebenezer Scrooge (who's worked his way into modern lingo, pretty much)... my, so many!

And I certainly can't decide on a single favorite character from any book. I think it would probably be Mayweed from Horwood's Duncton Chronicles (the second and third books). Anyone who's read those books would know exactly what I mean. But there's a lot of others I like - Gollum, HAL from Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey...

Do you guys have as hard of a time trying to answer questions like these as I do?

07-07-2000, 07:48 PM	#1
IronParrot Guest Posts: n/a	Favorite and most memorable characters The title says it all... any character from any book. For me, under most memorable... well, aside from the many, many memorable characters in LOTR, that is (especially Gollum)... I can still think of a lot. Hercule Poirot comes to mind, as do Philip Marlowe, Dirk Pitt and the Scarecrow from the Oz books, as well as a whole lot of others... but they're all well-remembered because they're in multiple books in a continuous series. As for characters that were only in one work? I'd say Sam Spade, Scarlett O'Hara, Ebenezer Scrooge (who's worked his way into modern lingo, pretty much)... my, so many! And I certainly can't decide on a single favorite character from any book. I think it would probably be Mayweed from Horwood's Duncton Chronicles (the second and third books). Anyone who's read those books would know exactly what I mean. But there's a lot of others I like - Gollum, HAL from Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey... Do you guys have as hard of a time trying to answer questions like these as I do?