Comments on: Favorite Characters From Genre Literature?

By: SRW

SRW — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:56:05 +0000

Jamie Lannister – ASOIAF – Gearge R R MArtin

Paul – Dune – Frank Herbert

Fitz – Farseer Trilogy
The Fool – Tawney Man Trilogy (sequal to above)

- Robin Hobb

By: John

John — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:02:33 +0000

Ender (Orson Scott Card)
Druss & Waylander (David Gemmell)
Lazarus Long (Robert Heinlein)
Alvin (Arthur C Clarke, already mentioned)
Coyote (Kim Stanley Robinson)
Alvin (Orson Scott Card)
Nemo (Jules Verne)
Lyra (Pullman)
Aragorn & Gandalf (Tolkein)
Shannow (Gemmell)
Merlin

By: Kerry

Kerry — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 11:25:00 +0000

Sephrenia and Kalten from Eddings – love these two. Kalten is such a bumbling fool with a heart of gold and Seph I always found interesting and a bit enigmatic.

Robinton – Come on! Has to be one of them! (Except for that crush on Menolly, eww much)

Dweia – Eddings again, bit too similar to Aphrael/Flute/Danae but I prefer Dweia.

Arutha and Mara – Much loved! Pug rocks too, but has started getting a lil bit dull lately, and Tomas was great in Magician but since then I think he’s been used wrongly.

Marvin the Paranoid Android – Definitely

By: Shannon

Shannon — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 23:39:13 +0000

oops…i meant Sandry ****

By: Shannon

Shannon — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 23:34:19 +0000

Kahlan Amnell, Richard Cypher, Zeddicus Zuhl Zorrander, and Chase the boundary warden from the sword of truth novels by Terry Goodkind

Raistlin Majere and Tasslehoff Burrfoot- <3 dragonlance

Roland, Eddie, Jake, and Susannah from the Dark tower novels by Stephan King

Sadry, Trisana, Briar, and Daja from the circle of magic quartet by Tamora Peirce

ok thats 14….i guess i should stop.

By: Tom Marcinko

Tom Marcinko — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 21:47:05 +0000

Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect from H2G2 feel like very real people to me.

It seems that the characters you identify with most are the ones you experience when you’re young. I’m sure if I were reading His Dark Materials or Harry Potter as an adolescent instead of a 50-something, I’d include Lyra and Harry.

One oddball choice from me, then, are a pair from Arthur C. Clarke: Alvin, the “unique,” and Khedron the Jester, from The City and the Stars. I guess Clarke didn’t realize how funny a name like Alvin would be to Americans. Nevertheless, the pre-adolescent dream of looking for A WAY OUT hit me very hard around age 10-11.

Also Lije Bailey from Asimov’s The Caves of Steel.

OK, there’s a couple of writers not prized for their characterizations, but there you go.

By: Clint Harris

Clint Harris — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:19:08 +0000

One of my favorites, but I thought was too obscure, was Perkar from J. Gregory Keyes “The Waterborn.”

By: Cheryl Holland

Cheryl Holland — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:04:32 +0000

I hate Zaphod.

By: S.H. Segal

S.H. Segal — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:44:50 +0000

HOW could we go this long before hitting Douglas Adams? Let’s add Marvin the Paranoid Android, of course, and Zaphod Beeblebrox.

By: Cheryl Holland

Cheryl Holland — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:39:56 +0000

Forgot Douglas Adams’ Dirk Gently.