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Fictional characters you enjoy reading about but wouldn't want in your real life
I was thinking about this as I read one of the Inspector Montalbano mysteries by Andrea Camilleri (in the English translation). Inspector Montalbano is impulsive, emotional, tends to overreact to small things, and lies to avoid confrontation. He's funny to read about, but I wouldn't want to work with him! His long-suffering Sergeant Fazio should have been promoted a long time ago.
Jack Reacher in the books by Lee Child would be handy to have around if you needed help getting rid of some criminals, but he's pretty much the complete opposite of me and we would most likely hate each other. Of course he would move on within a few days anyway, hopefully before he killed me out of sheer aggravation..... What fictional characters would drive you crazy if they appeared in your real life? |
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09-26-2015, 03:37 PM
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09-26-2015, 03:44 PM
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I always thought Sherlock Holmes would be a total pain in the a** to live with.
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09-26-2015, 03:47 PM
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09-26-2015, 03:57 PM
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99.99% of them
Who wants a psychopath, werewolf or zombie next door 
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09-26-2015, 04:04 PM
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 Every possible clue has about 100 million possible deductions attached to it, but only he is able to unfailingly singles out the correct one, if need be by knowing some sort of extremely obscure fact that nobody else would ever know. See the parody "How Watson learned the trick", where he makes a few very valid deductions, but they all turn out to be wrong  (By the way: I always felt that Columbo, the detective played by Peter Falk, was decidedly Sherlockian... always catching people on some sort of weird, obscure clue.) |
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09-26-2015, 04:43 PM
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How about having to live with Nero Wolf?
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09-26-2015, 04:48 PM
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I think I would strangle Robin [Batman and Robin] or, at the very least, reverse the name tags on their two poles they slide down in order to utterly confuse them. (1966 TV series).
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09-26-2015, 05:08 PM
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Captain Ahab, Heathcliff, Humbert Humbert, Kurtz.
And those are just from books I love. |
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09-26-2015, 05:41 PM
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Easier to single out the handful you could tolerate.
Which aren't all that many. (Watson himself was no prize.) Me, I wouldn't mind sharing space with Kate Beckett. She's got the right taste in books. Last edited by fjtorres; 09-26-2015 at 05:44 PM. |
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09-26-2015, 05:45 PM
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God.
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09-26-2015, 06:20 PM
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Holmes would be difficult.
Can't imagine a relationship with Anna Kareina. Alex [A Clockwork Orange] I'd move and leave no forwarding address. Ignatius Reilly. Uriah Heep. Estella Havisham. Shunkin [A Portrait of Shunkin]. Scarlet O'Hara. Dorian Gray. Just what comes to mind for books that I consider worth remembering. |
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09-26-2015, 07:38 PM
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Never loan your car to Stephanie Plum! It will get blown up.
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09-26-2015, 07:47 PM
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 Agree about most of the rest, especially Scarlett O'Hara and Heathcliff. Miss Marple I would like. Last edited by pendragginp; 09-26-2015 at 07:50 PM. |
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09-26-2015, 08:23 PM
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o saeclum infacetum
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Holly Golightly, Sally Bowles, Blanche DuBois, Jean Brodie.
Since I didn't name any women on my first list. |
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