Getting to know you

[bex79]

As I am new and keen to make friends, I thought the best way to get to know the "regulars" would be to ask this question: if you were a character in any novel, who would you be?

I would be Elizabeth Bennett, from Pride and Prejudice, on the grounds that she is witty, fiesty yet an undeniable romantic :-)

[dfloyd]

:flare:
Count Dracula.

[aliengirl]

:flare:
Count Dracula.

Van Helsing :D

@ bex : Difficult question. There are too many characters to choose from. I'd be Tom Sawyer because he is what every other boy is not. And if allowed one more chance I'd be Viola from Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.

[The Comedian]

Henry Thoreau -- a cranky in-your-face, nature-boy with a passive, nerdy side.

[LitNetIsGreat]

I'm Jude Fawley - denied access to university because of my social class, excluded from privilege, general all round sorry case.

No, Neely is not in a good mood, grumpy as hell, nice to meet you though...

[Alexander III]

Justine from Justine - indubitably

[kiki1982]

Wow, wow, wow, wow... Definitely in a bad mood! :lol: Who would want to be Jude Fawley? Altough I am probably one, I wouldn't see myself as one. Not social class but my father was the culprit...

Still, I am no worse off. If I had a uni education, I would have done it and unless I was brilliant, I would have had to relinquish my knowledge in order to do a stupid job. Call me cynical, but I'd just skip the energetic and useless part and also leave the disappointment for what it is. I'll study on my own a bit.

Seriously, I wouldn't know who to be. I suppose I would not like to be Jane Eyre (no way! despite expectation :D), too scary. I think I would either like to be Catherine Morland because I am oblivious to everything and only live for novels (:drool5:) and have a loving hubby/parents or I would like to be Georgiana Darcy, because I have a lot of money and a caring brother/sister-in-law who would not like me to get married to a dickhead. In case anyone wonders why not Lizzie Bennet... I could not face my own prejudice and wondering whether Darcy is ever going to look at me again after our first affront... And I could not face my own motehr :lol:.

[LitNetIsGreat]

Oh I'm OK really. I have been rejected from a recent post-graduate application and interview (how dare they?) it's not that I would have accepted them anyway, can't really, but I at least didn't expect to be rejected so soon and so violently. I wanted to be given the opportunity to reject them first anyway. Damn them.

In a better mood I would like to be some Hemingway character like in Fiesta or something like that; drinking wine with good friends in the sun and fighting bulls, care free and all that.

Or maybe someone in a Wordsworth poem, the narrator of them not the idiot boy (but after being rejected?) you know walking around in the Lakes looking at sheep and butterflies and stuff, sounds nice.

[Drkshadow03]

Cthuhlu.

[Seasider]

I would like to be Jim Hawkins fromTreasure Island. Get to meet loads of colourful rogues and hear their stories. Then go for a great adventure, get to know one of literature's great characters Long John Silver. Take part in an exciting battle and eventually come home safe and sound. I loved it and read it countless times.

[Emil Miller]

Oh I'm OK really. I have been rejected from a recent post-graduate application and interview (how dare they?) it's not that I would have accepted them anyway, can't really, but I at least didn't expect to be rejected so soon and so violently. I wanted to be given the opportunity to reject them first anyway. Damn them.

In a better mood I would like to be some Hemingway character like in Fiesta or something like that; drinking wine with good friends in the sun and fighting bulls, care free and all that.

Or maybe someone in a Wordsworth poem, the narrator of them not the idiot boy (but after being rejected?) you know walking around in the Lakes looking at sheep and butterflies and stuff, sounds nice.

Neely old chap, these flights of fancy are getting out of hand, I don't think a carefree attitude is advisable when fighting bulls, and are those sheep the same ones with thermos flasks that you mentioned recently?

Incidentally, have you read The Secret Life of Walter Mitty?

[LitNetIsGreat]

Yes, yes I've read the Walter Mitty, I know what you are saying, not at all, not at all - I've got my feet firmly on the ground, and just as soon as I got my farm and can live on the fat o' the land I'll be fine. I'm hoping that sometime next month it will all happen. Sheep with thermos flasks are optional.

[stlukesguild]

Don Quixote

[mortalterror]

Richard III

[mayneverhave]

Henry VII

[Jozanny]

Iago :D

[kiki1982]

@Neely:

Oh, so it's actually a bit wallowing in self-pity out of your hurt pride. I like that approach :D.

[Jack of Hearts]

Benjamin from The Sound and the Fury. Life's a pasture.











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[aliengirl]

I would like to be Jim Hawkins fromTreasure Island. Get to meet loads of colourful rogues and hear their stories. Then go for a great adventure, get to know one of literature's great characters Long John Silver. Take part in an exciting battle and eventually come home safe and sound. I loved it and read it countless times.

Oh great! Given one more chance I'd love to be Jim Hawkins. (But have already taken two.) I have read Treasure Island many times. Sounds so exciting- going on a treasure hunt, playing a crucial role in the battle, and then coming back with your share of treasure and glory. Its a pity that I never had pirates knocking on my door.

[LitNetIsGreat]

@Neely:

Oh, so it's actually a bit wallowing in self-pity out of your hurt pride. I like that approach :D.

Yep, I like to wallow and exaggerate, it makes me feel better.

Currently, looking out of the window with a sad face listening to this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoBWW3OAhgw
:nopity:

[Emil Miller]

..... listening to this

Sooner you than me.

By the way Neely old chap, do you actually look like your avatar ( he reminds me of that man who used to get sand kicked in his face before he took the Charles Atlas body building course) or are you a 20 stone laughing Bacchus?:D

[farnoosh]

Jane Bennet from Pride & Prejudice.She's so nice.:)

[kiki1982]

ahh, :nopity:, I was thinking how similar it is to the book, actually, but have seen that there were lots of people who actually read a lot of things into it. :blush:


Jane Bennet from Pride & Prejudice.She's so nice.:)

Ooh, I thought about her too, but I couldn't face her sorrow and insecurity about Bingley in the end... For the rest, though, she is a fantastic person...

[LitNetIsGreat]

Sooner you than me.

By the way Neely old chap, do you actually look like your avatar ( he reminds me of that man who used to get sand kicked in his face before he took the Charles Atlas body building course) or are you a 20 stone laughing Bacchus?:D

Well I turned it off after a minute, it was getting on my nerves - self pity only goes so far - I was only playing with the Jude idea anyway. Maybe this is more the thing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUj8Elw-gNg&feature=related

Yes I do sort of look like that, a bit more handsome (of course) and a little less morbid looking, but it is a fair representation - it is supposed to be Dorian Gray, but it could pass as me I suppose yes. No, I'm not 20 stone or laughing (actually 11st 6oz with jeans and T-shirt on, just got weighed) and just shy of 6ft.

[Emil Miller]

Well I turned it off after a minute, it was getting on my nerves - self pity only goes so far - I was only playing with the Jude idea anyway. Maybe this is more the thing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUj8Elw-gNg&feature=related

Yes I do sort of look like that, a bit more handsome (of course) and a little less morbid looking, but it is a fair representation - it is supposed to be Dorian Gray, but it could pass as me I suppose yes. No, I'm not 20 stone or laughing (actually 11st 6oz with jeans and T-shirt on, just got weighed) and just shy of 6ft.

Well I lasted longer than you because I kept listening for an actual tune but, as there wasn't one, I switched it off because it was getting on my nerves also.

Ah yes, one of Mozart's most famous pieces, with a tremendous ending in that video.

[faithosaurus]

Marie from "The Stranger". Who wouldn't want to be with Meursault? ;)

OR I would be Bianca from "Blood and Gold". She just seems so elegant and put together.

[Snowqueen]

I would like to be Emma Woodhouse. She is clever and pretty, (so am I:smilewinkgrin:) but she fails to judge the characters of the people around her.

[Emil Miller]

I would like to be Matthew LeGrange, the literary agent in my book A Tangled Web, because he is wise, tells it like it is, and retires to the south of France.

[Sionn Harrow]

I guess I'd be Hermione Grange from Harry Potter. She's smart, loyal, and a total book-worm ^-^

[KilgoreT]

A more boring version of the protagonist in At Swim-Two-Birds. It doesn't look like I do much, but I'll come good in the end. I hope.

[cyberbob]

Cheshire cat because I'm a cat lover and would enjoy having his superpowers.

[marcolfo]

jose arcadio buendia.
because i would love to go around the world 75 times. and come back covered in tattoos

[Three Sparrows]

I have been likened to Maddy Ross from True Grit before. I'm not quite so sure that was a complement...

[Jeremydav]

Marlow from Heart of Darkness

[Armel P]

Trout Fishing in America

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Ok ok if I were to be serious I'd say Emil Sinclair from Demian or Alexis L'Estang from The Prospector.

[Emil Miller]

Humbert Humbert ;)

[Desolation]

Ivan Karamazov...Or maybe Raskolnikov.

[Dark Muse]

This is tough because I have read so many different books and there are so many characters I would not mind being for various reasons, but if I had to choose just one, than I think it would have to be Maid Marian from the Legend of Robin, and most especially from the version told by Jennifer Roberson in "Lady of the Forest" Because she is willful, independent, tough, and refuses to allow herself to be manipulated or pushed around by the patricidal society, but stands up for herself and what she believes in. And most importantly, she gets Robin Hood. I have a total Robin Hood crush.

[Big Dante]

Hmmm, maybe Dr Watson I would have to say.

[Ancasta]

Lucy from Villette by Charlotte Bronte. An intelligent woman who can't stand idiotic chatter and is rather independent.

[ReadCentral]

hi bex i like ur question well i love to be the same i love her role in Pride n Prejudice

[mal4mac]

Nicholas Nickleby, or, more realistically, Pickwick.

[Blasarius '33]

Benjamin from The Sound and the Fury. Life's a pasture.
I'll get the loppers.

Tristram Shandy is the life for me.