#260899 - Sun Mar 13 2005 01:50 AM
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Mr Bennett ---- such a sweetie.
Adam Bede.....yum
and yes, Harry Potter too!
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#260900 - Sun Mar 13 2005 01:54 AM
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Oh, yikes! I'm probably going to get called out on the carpet here. Reverand Dimmesdale always fascinated me in "The Scarlet Letter". I find the torture between passion and faith interesting. I'd love to hear him talking, were he real. I'd really like to have coffee with Heathcliff in "Wuthering Heights", too. Love should make you hopeful, not nasty. I'd like to know how that happened to him. And how pure adoration can turn someone into a basic monster. Once again I didn't pick Gatsby on one of these. I had him figured out from page 19.
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#260901 - Sun Mar 13 2005 02:17 AM
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Jane Eyre would be an interesting choice.  But my list would have to start off with my childhood heroes: Winnetou and Old Shatterhand from the Wild West novels written by Karl May (German author). They had lots of adventures, were noble and brave and always out smarted the bad guys. Another one would be Frankenstein's monster. When I read the book I always felt like telling the monster that not all people are bad  Also, he must have been fairly intelligent if he taught himself the human language just by listening to it. Discussions about life and death should be interesting, too. A pity for him that FT wasn't around in those days, because I'm sure he would have loved it. (Sorry, if that post made me sound like a geek. I guess my cover is blown now  )
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#260902 - Sun Mar 13 2005 04:07 AM
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Lets see... all the Harry Potter people are friends, especailly Harry, Miss Marple (of course) and Poirot too!
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#260903 - Sun Mar 13 2005 07:29 AM
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Poor Heathcliff! He wasn't really a monster, was he? I bet a lot of guys would turn surly after being treated that way by the self - absorbed Cathy! And I forgot about Frodo, Bilbo and company - Maybe it's because they have been in my heart since junior high school - just like beloved furniture, I don't really 'see' them any more. I also think Frankenstein's monster is a fascinating choice - you must be a compassionate person, Chris1013! Reverend Dimmsdale, Gats? Really?  Miss Marple is a fine choice, Jane, and another one I forgot about. See how hard it is to just pick out one? 
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#260904 - Sun Mar 13 2005 07:40 AM
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Oh, let's see...
Albus Dumbledore, definitely
Legolas and Gimli from LOTR
Lazarus Long and the future history gang (Maureen, Hazel, Ira, Justin, et al.)
Oh... and Valentine Michael Smith...
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#260906 - Thu Mar 17 2005 01:59 PM
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I'd like to meet: - Katie from "What Katie Did"
- Stig from "Stig of the Dump" (I always envied Barney for getting to be friends with a caveman)
- Numerous characters from Terry Pratchett's Discworld series; Nanny Ogg, Sam Vimes, Captain Carrot and Ridcully to name just a few.
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#260908 - Thu Mar 17 2005 02:51 PM
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Call me strange, but I would love to know Holden Caulfield.
I'd also love to know Anita Blake, although she could kill me in ways I can't even imagine.
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#260909 - Thu Mar 17 2005 03:11 PM
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Oh yes, love to meet Anita Blake.. and Asher, Jason, etc...
And Granny Weatherwax from Discworld.
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#260910 - Thu Mar 17 2005 06:43 PM
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Beee, you actually have read What Katy Did? That was my favorite book when I was about eight!
I would also like to meet Katy Carr and her sister Clover. This book is extremely rare and not many have heard of it, here in the states. My copy came in a box of books my aunt gave me when she got back from living in London.
Have you also read What Katy Did next? It's a grown up sequel.
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#260912 - Thu Mar 17 2005 07:36 PM
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I'd love to meet Nathaniel too . I think I'd like to meet Granny Weatherwax, but I'd really like to meet Nanny Ogg. After all, she named my cat.
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#260915 - Thu Mar 24 2005 01:56 AM
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I'm with SilverMoonSong on Lazarus and just about anyone from Heinlein's stories. World-As-Myth is a fascinating concept and if it were true, all of these meetings could actually take place.
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#260917 - Sun Mar 27 2005 04:04 PM
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Like most of you, I can’t narrow it down to just one.
I couldn’t pass up the chance of meeting Becky Sharp from Vanity Fair, though I’d try to make sure she didn’t insure my life. But even so it’s hard to choose between her and Lizzie Bennet.
I also find it hard to eliminate Flashman, the villain of Tom Brown’s Schooldays and the hero/villain of George Macdonald Fraser’s series, though I’d prefer to meet him over a meal at the Reform Club in his retirement rather than serve with him in the wars. Similarly, I’d like to meet John Mortimer’s Horace Rumpole over a bottle or two of Château Thames Embankment at Pomeroy’s, provided that he restricted his quotations to Shakespeare and steered clear of Wordsworth.
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#260918 - Mon Mar 28 2005 03:27 PM
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Hard question, Well I'd love to know Roland from the Dark tower series and probably the whole gang especially Garion, Silk, Polgara and Belgarath from the Belgariad and the Mallorian (poor spelling I appologise!)
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#260920 - Sun Apr 03 2005 02:01 AM
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- All the characters of 'Gone With the Wind'
- Sherlock Holmes
- Miss Marple
- Robert Langdon
- Michaelangelo (because of 'The Agony and the Ecstasy' - but does that qualify? I somehow find myself more interested in the character, not the person...call me lopsided)
- Mr Darcy
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#260921 - Sun Apr 10 2005 06:07 AM
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-Charles G. Finney's Dr. Lao
-Travis McGee (love to go fishing on his houseboat "Busted Flush" with him and Meyer!)
-all the 87th precinct
-Bill Pronzini's "Nameless" detective
-Raunce the butler from Henry Green's "Loving"
-Odysseus from Homer's "Odyssey"
-James Joyce's Leopold Bloom
and Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and Gray Mouser (way more fun than Conan!)
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