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Thread: Favorite Literary hero/Heroine ?

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    Oh, Nick Nick. You make me smile. Remind me to start a thread on the theatrical production starring Roger Rees.

    Anyway. Back on topic. I would have to agree with Odysseus, for being a rogue among heroes. I would probably cast my own vote for Prince Hal, young Henry V as Shakespeare wrote him, for his sense of humor and his ability to pass effortlessly through three very different worlds. And because I was very recently an angsty teenager.

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    I would have to choose the Herculean Beowulf as favorite hero. As far as favorite heroine, I may be going out on a limb but I feel as though Jean Paget from A Town Like Alice deserves a nod!

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    Alyosha Karamazov. I love how he tries to be good, but is haunted by family sins. He's the best.
    He prayed best, who loveth best
    All things both great and small;
    For the dear God who loveth us,
    He made and loveth all.

    ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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    My favorite literary hero?

    Smarter than David Copperfield and without the angst of Holden Caulfield, it has to be Pinocchio!

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    Ferdinand Bardamu from Celine's "Journey to the End of the Night." Okay, so he's totally an anti-hero, but he's got a hilarious grip on the savageness and brutality of humanity and offers the reader a nihilistic, hilarious, and (chillingly) accurate point of view of society. I can totally relate to him at times.

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    Hardy's Jude, a shining example of fortitude, single mindedness and intellectual ability in an impossibly harsh era. A true working class hero shafted by his environment.

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    I echo the sherlock holmes vote, but its hard to dissociate the literary holmes from all the cinematic holmes, the latter of which I think makes the former even better. he's tied for my all-time favorite fictional character with jean-luc picard, captain of the enterprise in star trek, the next generation.

    right now im trying to figure out who I like better as holmes, benedict Cumberbatch from the bbc production sherlock, or johnny miller from elementary.

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    "I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
    Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row

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    lol... Battlefield Earth - Sci-fi book by L. Ron Hubbard... btb: terrible movie in need of a remake.
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    Sancho Panza.

    Also Nick Adams

    Oh yes and Hayduke of course
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