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Old 09-26-2015, 04:30 PM   #1
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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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Old 09-26-2015, 04:37 PM   #2
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What fictional characters would drive you crazy if they appeared in your real life?
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Old 09-26-2015, 04:44 PM   #3
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I always thought Sherlock Holmes would be a total pain in the a** to live with.
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Old 09-26-2015, 04:47 PM   #4
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Old 09-26-2015, 04:57 PM   #5
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Old 09-26-2015, 05:04 PM   #6
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I always thought Sherlock Holmes would be a total pain in the a** to live with.
That was my first thought as well

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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Old 09-26-2015, 06:08 PM   #9
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Old 09-26-2015, 07:20 PM   #12
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Holmes would be difficult.
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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.

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(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.)
Now see, Columbo I would like as a neighbor or family member.

Agree about most of the rest, especially Scarlett O'Hara and Heathcliff.

Miss Marple I would like.
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