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100 Best Characters in Fiction Since 1900
NPR ^ | 2002 | Book Magazine

Posted on 02/22/2009 6:17:28 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin

List at link. I couldn't get it to C&P properly.


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To: blackbart.223

What is wrong with The Great Gatsby?


41 posted on 02/22/2009 6:59:07 AM PST by Sawdring
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To: toomuchcoffee

I used to love Little Lulu and Tubby, plus Katy Keene, Little Dot, Little Lotta, and Baby Huey. Do you remember the stories in Little Lulu comics with Ol’ Witch Hazel?


42 posted on 02/22/2009 6:59:33 AM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

James Bond 66???
Big Brother 59?????
Where’s Atlas Shrugged or Fountain Head? John Galt ?Dagny?


43 posted on 02/22/2009 7:00:03 AM PST by Guns
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To: Diogenesis

Well, yes. But it’s just a starting point for conversation. I’m sure the ‘conservative characters’ will show up soon. ;)


44 posted on 02/22/2009 7:01:35 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: jla
I must confess, I've never read Bleak House.

Something about the title, I guess...

Cheers!

45 posted on 02/22/2009 7:02:13 AM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Guns

I’d also point out that Bond is another MOVIE character. I’ve read most of the books, but I haven’t met anyone else who has.


46 posted on 02/22/2009 7:03:37 AM PST by Mr Rogers (Foreclosed homes = Affordable housing...FUBO)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Johnny Goodboy Tyler - Battlefield Earth - Gets the girl and saves the world.


47 posted on 02/22/2009 7:04:59 AM PST by BeerSwillr (Profanity free since 2003-12-17 20:41:45)
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To: Sawdring
"What is wrong with The Great Gatsby?"

It's a boring soap opera. Sort of like "Silas Marner" and "Great Expectations" Just my opinion.

48 posted on 02/22/2009 7:05:44 AM PST by blackbart.223 (I live in Northern Nevada. Reid doesn't represent me.)
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To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten

Did you red “The Glass Key” by Hammett? It’s one of my favorites and the lead character, Ned Beaumont is really a stand up guy. I must have read that book six times.


49 posted on 02/22/2009 7:06:15 AM PST by raybbr (It's going to get a lot worse now that the anchor babies are voting!)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

I’m a fan of the old Charlie Chan movies, although I’ve never read any of the books by Earl Derr Biggers. And, I’m a big fan of the Knights Templar series by Michael Jecks, along with Doug Preston & Lincoln Child’s FBI Agent Aloysius Pendergast. I’ve also been reading the Joe Leaphorn/Jim Chee series by Tony Hillerman, and the Amelia Peabody series by Elizabeth Peters. So many books, so little time to read them.


50 posted on 02/22/2009 7:06:22 AM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: raybbr
Number #1 on my list:

This list has about as much relevence as "Rolling Stone Magazine best Music of All Time".

51 posted on 02/22/2009 7:06:27 AM PST by Guns
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To: BeerSwillr
Battlefield Earth

Great story for two-thirds and then it just gets absurd.

52 posted on 02/22/2009 7:07:17 AM PST by raybbr (It's going to get a lot worse now that the anchor babies are voting!)
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To: All

Obama- His entire life has been manufactured by the media and his story is total fiction. If you tried to write this story ten years ago, you couldn’t make up what everyone has said about him.


53 posted on 02/22/2009 7:08:39 AM PST by newnhdad (The longest of journeys begins with one step.)
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To: Skooz

Augustus McCrea.


54 posted on 02/22/2009 7:09:10 AM PST by Terry Mross (I Hate All Politicians, Republicans Included.)
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To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
"John Gault? Dagney Taggart"?

YES! Let's not forget Howard Roark and the villanous Ellsworth Touhey.

55 posted on 02/22/2009 7:09:43 AM PST by neocon1984
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To: Vaduz

Sherlock Holmes does not qualify since he appeared in fiction before 1900 - 1887 to be exact.


56 posted on 02/22/2009 7:09:59 AM PST by reg45 (Be calm everyone. The idiot child is in charge!)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

I had many as a child such as: “Charlotte’s Web,” “Little House on the Prarie” series, Kirsten in the “American Girl” series.


57 posted on 02/22/2009 7:10:06 AM PST by apocalypto
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To: raybbr

Yeah - read it fairly recently - I think it was reviewed in the WSJ and that made me want to read it. My take (as imperfect as it is) was that Hammett was doing for Baltimore what Chandler did so well for LA - give one a sense of place and time that is post-modern and showing the corruption in all it’s glory and beauty.


58 posted on 02/22/2009 7:10:48 AM PST by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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71 - Mary Katherine Blackwood, ‘We Have Always Lived in the Castle,’ Shirley Jackson, 1962

My absolutely favorite character of all. I read that book once a year; I miss Mary Katherine and Constance if I go to long without their company. ;)

Yeah, they’re a couple of whack-jobs, but very ‘real’ whack jobs, much like Shirley Jackson, herself, LOL!


59 posted on 02/22/2009 7:14:02 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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60 - Tom Ripley, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Patricia Highsmith, 1955

Tom, too. He’s so deliciously EVIL and self-serving. Must be a Liberal, LOL!

Those books of hers are like car wrecks; you just can’t NOT look. ;)


60 posted on 02/22/2009 7:15:37 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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