Favorite Character from Literature?

[Lugez]

I'm just wondering what everyone's favorite characters are in the books they've read. I thought it'd be interesting to see some answers.

Me, I can't pick a top, but my favorites are:

Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov - Crime and Punishment
Holden Caulfield - Catcher in the Rye
Yossarian - Catch 22

As you can see, I'm a fan of conflictual characters. I just find them more interesting...

What about you?

[Stephanie]

I really want to befriend Charlie from The Perks of Being A Wallflower, like so badly.

[The Morrigan]

Hmm I can't really think of anyone right that I really like. I'll just have to say I like Ron Weasley for now and about half of the other Harry Potter characters (I get a bit Harry Potter obsessed whenever there's a new film coming out)

[SleeplessSkye]

I would have to say Alice Cullen from Twilight.
I can totally relate to her!

[<:3 )~]

I'm going to go withhh..
Mersault from The Stranger! I mean...seriously - what a cool dude to observe. I certainly wouldn't want to be his friend. xD
Otherwise probably Junie B. Jones as it seeems her and I get into a lot of trouble. Or, we did, from what I remember in reading her books as a first grader (I'm not an entirely avid reader, heh :P ).

[Terra Rae]

Dustfinger from the Inkheart series. I just find him a very intriguing character.

[noise94]

Oooh, Dustfinger was mega cool.^^

Mr Darcy from Pride and Prejudice is my all time favorite.
And then Elizabeth Bennett from P&P also.

Others would be:
Annabel Greene from Just Listen (By Sarah Dessen)

Lestat from Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles.

xD

[Union Of V]

Max from When The Wind Blows and At The Lakehouse is someone you can seriously relate to, it's like she embodies a particular part of your psyche that you never considered on it's own before. Sort of like your liberated dream self that you never even dreamed about.

Lisbeth Salander from the Millenium trilogy is also an amazing charactor (really well developped in the 2nd book) who is described in just enough depth so that you really apreciate her rational thought process, but not so much that the mystery surrounding her blows away.

Wow 2 girls for a guy says a lot.

Also Heathcliff from Wuthering Heights is fascinating, wouldn't be top of my list though...

[Algernon]

I like the little boy in "A Child Called It" it was a true story based on one of the worst cases of child abuse in California. I forgot his name, but he's went through a lot that I can admire.

[MadPoet]

I am so glad no one said Edward Cullen [yet].

It's hard to decide for me, but I really liked Anna from My Sister's Keeper.
I thought that the main character (whose name I can never remember) in The Catcher and The Rye was really awesome too.

[Algernon]

Originally Posted by Concrete Girl

I am so glad no one said Edward Cullen [yet].

It's hard to decide for me, but I really liked Anna from My Sister's Keeper.
I thought that the main character (whose name I can never remember) in The Catcher and The Rye was really awesome too.

God, not joke.

[*Faith*]

Originally Posted by xHolyValorx

I like the little boy in "A Child Called It" it was a true story based on one of the worst cases of child abuse in California. I forgot his name, but he's went through a lot that I can admire.

It's Dave Pelzer I admire him a lot too for what he's been through

[Melody Pond]

There are so many and the more I think about it the more I think of.

The first one that popped into my head was Dolphin from Illustrated Mum by Jacqueline Wilson.
This was a book that stuck with me through childhood and I still love it to this day even though I have grew out of most other Jacqueline Wilson books. I love the character of Dolphin and how she reacts to the problems in school and with her family.

[almostinvisible]

Originally Posted by x_nicola

Mr Darcy from Pride and Prejudice is my all time favorite.
And then Elizabeth Bennett from P&P also.

Same here!
Also, Frodo Baggins from the Lord of the Rings. I found him interesting, and I really admired his character.

[Magical Forest.]

Elizabeth Wurtzel - Prozac Nation.
I really admire her, she reminds me of me quite a lot.

[Strider]

Roiben from Tithe, Ender from Ender's Game, and Tally from Uglies are probably my favourite.

[Barbed Lungs]

I have three
Mr Darcy - Pride & Prejudice
Prince Arutha ConDoin <3 <3 - Magician ( Raymond E. Feist)
Lestat - Vampire chronicles ( Anne Rice)

[blondiegirl]

I agree Dave Pelzer is a great man and i have a lot of respect and admiration for him.

Id have to say one of my favourites is Anne Frank because her diary is amazing and she sounded like such a brave, funny and very tolerent young girl. Shes amazing (:

[Kanye West]

Lucas Davenport of the Prey Series by John Sandford

[Pelios]

Don Quixote from the book Don Quixote
A very famous book here in Mexico, I love his imagination.

[Toast]

I was going to say Holden Caulfield too! He was awesome.

Also guys, weren't Dave Pelzer's books proven fake?

[iHEAVENn]

Originally Posted by Toast

Also guys, weren't Dave Pelzer's books proven fake?

Where did you hear/read that from?
As far as I know, it's all true.

[Allons-y!]

Mr. Darcy, hands down. Jay Gatsby, naturally, Ginny Weasley, and...Sydney Carton, from A Tale of Two Cities.

[ThePunkAlien]

Favorite because I can relate to them:

Holden Caulfield - Catcher in the Rye (always the outsider)
Oliver Twist - Oliver Twist (Although I was adopted, for some reason I really relate a lot to him)
David Rice - Jumper (A lot of the book deals with his struggles finding his place & search for his birth mother)
Max Evans - Roswell (Introverted, adolescent alien that was adopted upon his arrival as a child)

[Lorelei]

Originally Posted by <:3 )~

I'm going to go withhh..
Mersault from The Stranger! I mean...seriously - what a cool dude to observe. I certainly wouldn't want to be his friend. xD

AAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!! *jumps up and down and squeals in delight* Up until now I was the only teenager I knew who has read that book!! *squeals again*

My other favorites:
-Hermione Granger (She's a nerd AND she kicks ass!)
-Luna Lovegood (She's just awesome. She's "out there" but her priorities are straight.)
-Astrid from White Oleander (I haven't had half of the struggles she did, but she's extremely relatable.)
-Jane Eyre...from Jane Eyre. (She's wise and humble, and she has this inherent honesty which is so amazing.)
-Skellig...from Skellig. (If I believed in angels, I would think they were all like him.)
-Mina from Skellig (She's a lot like Luna Lovegood, actually!)

[~CourageousSurvivor~]

Scout and Jem- To Kill A Mockingbird
Anna- My Sister's Keeper
Elena, paige, clay, lucas, jeremy - (Women of the otherworld)

Thats about it.

About Dave Pelzer's books being fake; I don't think they were ever proven fake and I just googled it and I couldn't get a hit but I could still be wrong.

[LittleFish]

Hmm, this should be tough... There are too many awesome characters, lol!

Odd Thomas from Odd Thomas
Stormy from Odd Thomas
Desdemona from Midnighters
The Cat from Coraline

[Allons-y!]

Originally Posted by Lorelei

AAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!! *jumps up and down and squeals in delight* Up until now I was the only teenager I knew who has read that book!! *squeals again*

My other favorites:
-Hermione Granger (She's a nerd AND she kicks ass!)
-Luna Lovegood (She's just awesome. She's "out there" but her priorities are straight.)
-Astrid from White Oleander (I haven't had half of the struggles she did, but she's extremely relatable.)
-Jane Eyre...from Jane Eyre. (She's wise and humble, and she has this inherent honesty which is so amazing.)
-Skellig...from Skellig. (If I believed in angels, I would think they were all like him.)
-Mina from Skellig (She's a lot like Luna Lovegood, actually!)

Jane Eyre! totally forgot about Mr. Rochester. Definitely on the list.

[Tegan]

Originally Posted by Stephanie

I really want to befriend Charlie from The Perks of Being A Wallflower, like so badly.

Dang it that was mine...

plus I'd love to hang out with Dean Moriarty and Sal Paradise from On The Road... that would be so awesome

[chiaroscuro]

Billy Pilgrim from Slaughterhouse Five. Yep.

[flippinmayonnaise]

Rorschach- Watchmen
Raskolnikov- Crime and Punishment

[Monster.]

jim form leaving dirty jersey (:
i love this book more than anything<3

[ohsnap!]

Originally Posted by LittleFish

Odd Thomas from Odd Thomas
Stormy from Odd Thomas
Desdemona from Midnighters

Oh my goodness, I love both of those series. I was more of a Rex fan though. =P

It's hard to say who my all time favorite character is though. I'm thinking maybe Conrad in Ordinary People, Holden in Catcher in the Rye, or Charlie in The Perks of Being a Wallflower. There are so many others though!

I'm just now realizing that those are all unhappy boys. hahaha

[Mr.Brightside]

Arthur from The Keys To The Kingdom series. (He was just so cool. :P)
Klaus from A Series of Unfortunate Events. (A great series of books that are highly underrated)
Hermion from Harry Pottter (just, cause. :P)
Simon from the book Stuff. (I really related to him once upon a time)
Inigo from The Princess Bride. (I think that's his name, I haven't read that book in a while. He was the guy who was avenging his father's death and was SO cool.)

[emerson]

Ditto on the Harry Potter mentions!, plus Snape. How has no one said Snape?!?

Otherwise:
(Anthony) MacMurrough from At Swim Two Boys
Sal Paradise (as someone else said) from On The Road
And, Jane Austen characters in general. They make me laugh, and the men make me squeeeel in a fangirly kind of way. (I'm talking to you, Mr. Darcy and Col Brandon...)
Holden Caulfield and Yossarian, of course, both of whom were already mentioned.

[Distorted_Reality]

Sometimes I crush on guys in books...

Currently, it's Paul Denton from The Rules of Attraction.

[Ellie]

Originally Posted by UselessSecret

Elizabeth Wurtzel - Prozac Nation.
I really admire her, she reminds me of me quite a lot.

Quoted to save me from tying out more or less the same thing

[TheWhiteTornado]

Arthur "Boo" Radley from To Kill a Mockingbird

The scene where he saves Scout and Jem from Bob Ewell has been imprinted into my memory, lol.

[arctic]

Rorschach from Watchmen
Macbeth from well...Macbeth
Peter Parker (Spiderman)

[moyshi239]

Tally from the Uglies series, and Artemis Fowl from the Artemis Fowl series.