Does anyone hear know the Stephanie Plum novels by Janet Evanovich. Wonderfully trashy and really entertaining books. I always think she should end up with Ranger. But I see why she fancies Morelli. At least he doesn't kill people.
Does anyone hear know the Stephanie Plum novels by Janet Evanovich. Wonderfully trashy and really entertaining books. I always think she should end up with Ranger. But I see why she fancies Morelli. At least he doesn't kill people.
My lifelong love affair with books and reading continues unaffected by automation, computers, and all other forms of the twentieth-century gadgetry.
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
Logan Pearsall Smith, 1931
I thought we had a thread on this a while ago or perhaps it was another forum.
Ok I've done this more than once - "starting" a thread that already existed in the annals of Litnet. I think I'll give up....
Ps I think the title for my thread suggests I'm more of a romantic than the author of the thread in which we now find ourselves!!
Last edited by Cailin; 11-18-2008 at 06:49 PM.
Oh how i agree with you!
dont forget our bargin from the earlier pages of this thread!
Hes a given....Rochester - Jane Eyre
you know what? i have to agree with this...there is something saucy about Benedick.Benedick - "Much Ado About Nothing"
gonna jump on the bandwaggon and say Edward Cullen as well....oh the passion! Shame she lost sight of his character in the last book...
"Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
W.B.Yeats
"If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
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Who's that guy in Bridget Jones?
Mark Darcy? (aka Mr Darcy)
"Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
W.B.Yeats
"If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
Artemins Fowl and the Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer
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The fictional love of my life would have to be Gabriel from the Annette Curtis Klaus novel (not movie) Blood and Chocolate because he is so primal, yet sensitive and he is willing to wait for the woman he desires. He is patient and understanding and the perfect image of a macho man without the overdone ego or narcissism; just an overall bad boy with good guy qualities. Gabriel is a man with whom I would love to hop on a motorcycle with and traverse the country without a care.
Ahh! I love that marriage proposal! And I've not read the book! Oh dear what have you started?!
Mr. Darcy of course is on my list. I love to watch the BBC version of P&P when I need to make everything right in the world.I am a hopeless romantic and he's just so yay he has to be on that list!
Among others...Aragorn from Lord of the Rings, Edmund Dantes from Count of Monte Cristo, a small crush on Professor Snape. Interestingly enough, tall, dark and handsome seem to fit into my real life crushes, especially seeing as it includes long hair too!![]()
One character I really, really loved was Razumikhin from Crime and Punishment..Raskolnikov's best friend (right??), he was such a sweet man!
"So heaven meets earth like a sloppy wet kiss, and my heart turns violently inside of my chest, I don't have time to maintain these regrets, when I think about, the way....He loves us..."
http://youtube.com/watch?v=5xXowT4eJjY
LET THERE BE LIGHT
"Love follows knowledge." – St. Catherine of Siena
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Oh, of course I remember our bargain! How could I possibly forget?
Hes a given....
Yes, there definitely is something, isn't there?you know what? i have to agree with this...there is something saucy about Benedick.![]()
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As for John Thorton, I have always had a fondness for him, but I can honestly say that any stronger "feelings" that I have had for him lately are due to the sight of Richard Armitage in the role that he plays to perfection.![]()
"Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
W.B.Yeats
"If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
Artemins Fowl and the Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer
my poems-please comment Forum Rules
I see Mr. Darcy is stealing the show!
Since I last posted I've come up with a few more --- call me a romantic!
* The Baron from Chekhov's "Three Sisters" (so sweet and steadfast)
* Onegin from Pushkin's "Eugene Onegin" (dashing, morose, and the way in which he learns to love is heartbreaking)
* Inman from "Cold Mountain" (OK, so maybe it's Jude Law)![]()
* Julien Sorel from "The Red and the Black" (I loved him when I read the book, being very young and not realizing what a hypocritical creep he was)![]()
maybe that's because Gaskell shows us the perspective of different characters, whereas in P&P Darcy's consciousness is never actually presented (except in one tiny little passage) and we only know him through Elizabeth. ???
which makes me wonder: is it actually Mr Darcy that so many girls like or is it Colin Firth (or that other actor in the new film)? Or is Darcy like a screen on which we can easily project all our own fantasies, interpretations etc, precisely because he is so indefinite?
Faramir from Tolkien's 'The Lord of the Rings', Captain Wentworth from Austen's 'Persuasion' and Sirius Black from Harry Potter are the main ones, for me. However, I'm also rather fond of Giles Winterbourne from Hardy's 'The Woodlanders', and if anyone's read Philip Pullman's 'The Ruby in the Smoke', I've adored Frederick Garland for years.![]()
It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
If I had not already found a very real,very perfect love of my life, I would shamefully admit to Austen's Darcy.
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice