My first crush on a book character was on Ross Murdoch in Norton's Time Trader books.
Eomer from Lord of the Rings for me.
Willow: That's a work ethic! Buffy, you're developing a work ethic! Buffy: Do they make an ointment for that?
'Beneath You'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Kathy A - Jul 21, 2009 1:52:31 pm PDT #9700 of 28394
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Beverly - Jul 21, 2009 9:15:00 pm PDT #9701 of 28394
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I never read Lawrence, but I was intrigued and frequently delighted reading about Gerald's far-flung childhood habitats and the creatures he encountered/adopted/studied.
If I have a literary hero, it's probably Robin Hood. I have a collection including children's and YA novels (Wyeth and Hildebrandt illos!), romances, fantasies, and scholarly examinations of the myth and legend including an 1850's book with leather spine and quarterboards entitled Robin Hood: Being a collection of Ballads and tales from the Borderlands...and I forget the rest. It goes on quite a ways. It's a very odd little thing, but I'm pleased to have it. Second (heh. of course) would be F'nor of the Dragonweyrs, second in command to his more flamboyant brother F'lar, figurehead and leader of the weyrs. F'nor was rider of brown Canth, in McCaffrey's first two Pern novels, loyal, perceptive, observant, and reflective, more levelheaded than his brother, and a half-step out of the limelight. My kind of guy.
Girl heroes: Nancy Drew, Podkayne of Mars, Menolly of the Harperhall, Marion in McKinley's Outlaws of Sherwood, Gillan in Norton's Year of the Unicorn, lots of Norton's women and girls, who seemed to function just fine with or without male support, Harriet Vane.
I'm sure there are more of either gender, these are all that come immediately to mind.
DavidS - Jul 22, 2009 9:06:43 am PDT #9702 of 28394
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Flickr set of Gothic Romance covers from the 60s.
Frankenbuddha - Jul 22, 2009 9:08:52 am PDT #9703 of 28394
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I used to have the Dennis Wheatley book with that exact cover. I may still (not sure I ever got around to reading it, but the Hammer movie was quite good).
Sophia Brooks - Jul 22, 2009 9:19:03 am PDT #9704 of 28394
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I am pretty sure I still have the 2 Victoria Holt books at my mom's house.
Beverly - Jul 22, 2009 9:26:29 am PDT #9705 of 28394
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Victoria Holt is Jean Plaidy--pass it on!
I think she has another pen name, too. I'm just too lazy to Google right now.
Sophia Brooks - Jul 22, 2009 10:05:05 am PDT #9706 of 28394
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Phillipa something?
sj - Jul 22, 2009 10:20:05 am PDT #9707 of 28394
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Phillipa Carr.
Toddson - Jul 22, 2009 10:36:05 am PDT #9708 of 28394
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
eep ... shades of summers past! I went through just about all of Victoria Holt - many with those same covers. And I still have that edition of Barbara Michaels' Witch and I also had the Dennis Wheatley one ... or at least, my father did.
Barb - Jul 22, 2009 5:40:08 pm PDT #9709 of 28394
“Not dead yet!”
And say it with me one more time:
AAAAAAAYYYYYYYIIIIIIII!!!!
FICTION: THRILLER
APOCALYPSE HAPPENS and THUNDER MOON Lori Handeland's SHAKESPEARE UNDEAD, inspired by a conversation with her editor at RWA and quickly turned into a proposal exploring the Bard and vampires, zombies and more, to Jennifer Enderlin of St. Martin's, for publication in spring 2010, by Irene Goodman at Irene Goodman Agency (world).
Inspired by a conversation with her editor. At RWA. Which was where I was last week. And it'll be published in the spring.
Oy.