Tribe.net. Local Connections Canela, too hot for you http://literacynerds.tribe.net/thread/dff6e2e1-338b-41dd-8d07-98b2ee624de4#c53c352d-e9f3-4874-9c31-d36cf0fd5281 2009-10-02T17:00:22Z 2009-10-02T17:00:22Z

The mistress of the orphanage in "Jane Eyre".

Canela, too hot for you 2009-10-02T17:00:22Z Tania http://literacynerds.tribe.net/thread/dff6e2e1-338b-41dd-8d07-98b2ee624de4#974ae2b7-ea6e-44ca-819f-1f4df5029856 2008-04-29T01:22:40Z 2008-04-29T01:22:40Z

Hi Oscar, try some yoga and deep breathing, I heard it stops you from wanting to kill fiction characters

Tania 2008-04-29T01:22:40Z Sean http://literacynerds.tribe.net/thread/dff6e2e1-338b-41dd-8d07-98b2ee624de4#f7d8c7be-cbb6-4868-874b-43de5f7f146a 2008-04-28T20:23:46Z 2008-04-28T20:23:46Z

Heathcliff from "Wuthering Heights" - never have I despised a fictional character quite so much. Levin from "Anna Karenina" - pedantic, condescending, narcissistic. by the end, i was wishing he was going to be the one to throw himself under the train. Peyton from "Lie Down in Darkness" - she couldn't kill herself soon enough either.

Sean 2008-04-28T20:23:46Z Max http://literacynerds.tribe.net/thread/dff6e2e1-338b-41dd-8d07-98b2ee624de4#aea3ea52-b4aa-41a8-8397-7b15ffbf3ab1 2008-04-28T11:27:02Z 2008-04-28T11:27:00Z

You are a wonderful person, but those hobbets deserved wayyyyyyyyyyy worse for inflecting those crappy movies on the world, at least the book isn't on the tv every day, all day.

Max 2008-04-28T11:27:00Z Sarah http://literacynerds.tribe.net/thread/dff6e2e1-338b-41dd-8d07-98b2ee624de4#3c8a82c9-1073-4d2a-b5a7-3e467ab30ab4 2008-03-20T22:52:58Z 2008-03-20T22:52:58Z

DITTO!

Sarah 2008-03-20T22:52:58Z Linsey http://literacynerds.tribe.net/thread/dff6e2e1-338b-41dd-8d07-98b2ee624de4#cfa8a415-a215-4065-8595-fb34b9f8cd7d 2008-02-05T19:05:19Z 2008-02-05T19:05:19Z

Natty Bumpo from Last of The Mohicans, then the entire damn series wouldn't exist.

Linsey 2008-02-05T19:05:19Z Mike http://literacynerds.tribe.net/thread/dff6e2e1-338b-41dd-8d07-98b2ee624de4#6a558fed-87a9-4f8d-9e03-cd33e9c6f22c 2008-02-04T22:31:33Z 2008-02-04T22:31:33Z

Everyone in Wuthering Heights, in fact i'd do it twice.

Mike 2008-02-04T22:31:33Z Rockstar http://literacynerds.tribe.net/thread/dff6e2e1-338b-41dd-8d07-98b2ee624de4#3df578d2-acc4-4fdb-9e0a-41a2e08404a0 2008-01-30T11:29:19Z 2008-01-30T11:27:02Z

Atticus Finch in "To Kill a Mockingbird." He practically shits marble. I was tired of Shagpoke Whipple in Nathaniel West's "A Cool Million" the second I clapped eyes on him. He's supposed to be some kind of crackerbarrel archetypal American and all he affords is an example of West's fascinating paranoia about that vast land between the coasts. Pretty much any Heinlein "old man" character is going to be full of helium, but you take them out, there's no story. Jubal Harshaw in "Stranger in a Strange Land" is the best and most lovingly-detailed, though. Cathcart, Milo, Aarfy and the filthy old man in "Catch-22" all set my teeth on edge, but that's their whole point! The Houyhnhnms, the idealized horse-people trotted out at the end of "Gulliver's Travels." Swift's rebuke to the Yahoos is all very well and the race embodies every virtue in the dean's scheme of values. They're also very, very self-righteous and dull.

Rockstar 2008-01-30T11:27:02Z $item.owner.firstName http://literacynerds.tribe.net/thread/dff6e2e1-338b-41dd-8d07-98b2ee624de4#5b6bd80b-7f09-4e2f-b711-edcb005c20f4 2008-01-18T16:04:56Z 2008-01-18T16:04:56Z

I second the motion

$item.owner.firstName 2008-01-18T16:04:56Z - http://literacynerds.tribe.net/thread/dff6e2e1-338b-41dd-8d07-98b2ee624de4#292f862e-9819-4e62-8dc5-f05c38e38f29 2007-12-30T22:44:41Z 2007-12-30T22:44:41Z

harry potter...

- 2007-12-30T22:44:41Z JM http://literacynerds.tribe.net/thread/dff6e2e1-338b-41dd-8d07-98b2ee624de4#1526a038-5a71-4852-99a4-9c80727f64e9 2007-11-19T14:32:33Z 2007-11-19T14:32:33Z

Ooof. That damned little white girl in Uncle Tom's Cabin.

JM 2007-11-19T14:32:33Z Rebecca http://literacynerds.tribe.net/thread/dff6e2e1-338b-41dd-8d07-98b2ee624de4#0093329e-0527-4fc8-a2e0-74384fac4331 2007-10-27T08:29:45Z 2007-10-27T08:29:45Z

Speaking of twits, I'd have killed off Justine from the Marquis de Sade's "Justine." He did it about a thousand or two pages after it should have happened (at the end of the SEQUEL to "Justine," if I remember correctly). She goes running from one monastery to another begging for help, and EVERY SINGLE TIME, she gets raped and brutalized by the monks. You'd think she'd have learned not to go throwing herself on complete strangers' charity (monks or not) after the first couple of times, but NO. Buck up and get yourself a job as a scullery made or a tavern wench, already! She was just so dumb, whiney-wailey, and helpless. Like I said, talk about twits!!!

Rebecca 2007-10-27T08:29:45Z Manda-B/ http://literacynerds.tribe.net/thread/dff6e2e1-338b-41dd-8d07-98b2ee624de4#aaa22155-47d9-45ec-a513-4df1334b7a25 2007-09-30T06:37:09Z 2007-09-30T06:37:09Z

Emma. What a twit she is!

Manda-B/ 2007-09-30T06:37:09Z JM http://literacynerds.tribe.net/thread/dff6e2e1-338b-41dd-8d07-98b2ee624de4#9b36b06e-c7b1-4c35-ba31-5dc302601fd1 2007-09-08T14:53:24Z 2007-09-08T14:53:24Z

The narrator of A Moveable Feast. But I guess he beat me to it.

JM 2007-09-08T14:53:24Z Shannon http://literacynerds.tribe.net/thread/dff6e2e1-338b-41dd-8d07-98b2ee624de4#79331f0a-bf39-446d-8b62-cbc7015b63b7 2007-08-27T18:26:59Z 2007-08-27T18:26:59Z

What I'm curious about, Oscar FdJ, is that every named character on your list is a woman--or else the woman's husband. Can you think of female characters in literature that you _do_ like, or do you think that literature represents women in annoying ways, or.....? Me, I'd like to see just about everybody in Middle Earth die of an STD. I'd also like to impale Stephen Deadalus through the eye with a rusty fork.

Shannon 2007-08-27T18:26:59Z Miker http://literacynerds.tribe.net/thread/dff6e2e1-338b-41dd-8d07-98b2ee624de4#dd0b2674-bad7-4e1b-93a2-daffd6311434 2007-08-27T18:20:16Z 2007-08-27T18:20:16Z

Can I have the light glinting off the shaving mirror of "Stately, plump Buck Mulligan" and temporarily blinding the driver of a brewery dray who promptly runs over Leopold Bloom round about the bottom of page one of Ulysses?

Miker 2007-08-27T18:20:16Z lori http://literacynerds.tribe.net/thread/dff6e2e1-338b-41dd-8d07-98b2ee624de4#ebdbd242-509b-4b11-bb05-15c1e8b622d6 2007-08-21T04:12:35Z 2007-08-21T04:12:35Z

Right now I'm reading Lost Illusions by Honoré de Balzac for the first time, and I would definitely kill Lucien off. I suspect Balzac will do the deed for me ( no spoilers, please!)

lori 2007-08-21T04:12:35Z Oscar_Francois_De_Jarjeyes http://literacynerds.tribe.net/thread/dff6e2e1-338b-41dd-8d07-98b2ee624de4#ef284394-f518-42e3-9180-ba8cfbbcb463 2007-08-21T00:30:36Z 2007-08-21T00:30:36Z

Well, I was thinking about this the other day and wanted to know what other people thought. Usually I hear people talking about characters that they really love and admire, so I wanted to know who were the characters that people really despised. Here are some of my picks: Daisy and Tom Buchanan from "The Great Gatsby" Charles and Lucie Darnay from "A Tale of Two Cities" Kitty Fane from "The Painted Veil" Rosemary Hoyt from "Tender is the Night" Fermina Daza from "Love in the Time of Cholera" pretty much everyone from "Our Town" pretty much everyone from "The Scarlet Letter" pretty much everyone from "Kristin Lavransdatter" except for Lavrans Jewel from "As I Lay Dying" Scarlett, Melanie, and Ashley from "Gone With the Wind" *I would name some people from Shakespeare but most of them die on their own* and there are some others too but that's just to get the thread started

Oscar_Francois_De_Jarjeyes 2007-08-21T00:30:36Z