Favotite literary Hero

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Originally posted by pdxyyz

Tom Swift
Nancy Drew
Dick and Jane

Dick and Jane were recently arrested for running a "Bawdy House" in LA., what a shame, who would have guessed it, such All American kids ending up like that. Their current "Spot" was a Pit Bull,trained to fight and protect the place.Tragic!

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Originally posted by cnw

I have to agree with The Mayor. WEB Griffin is one of my favorites also. I am also disappointed that instead of finishing up the Corps series he is spending his time on the new series set in the current day with the half German/ half Latino Army Officer. It is OK reading but the man is in his mid 70's and has a duty to his readers to finish up the story line if at all possible before he dies. I think that he is training his son to take over because they have supposedly collaborated on 2 books set in his original OSS series. I found the first one not to be very good and the second is due out this summer........

I think that The Corps series is a franchise that could be filled in by another author, if W.E.B. Griffin were to provide just 2 or 3 pages of notes per book. James Bond survived Ian Fleming. I think that McCoy, Pickering et al should survive their creator. I am not a great fan of the new series either, but I am glad to see that he is still writing. I'll continue to read each book that he is able to produce, in whole or in part.

Also Captain Horatio Hornblower, and Jake Grafton (especially in the earlier books), and William A. Farralon, the hero of The Soldier, as serialized in the Saturday Evening Post in the early 1960s. Moby Dick has been mentioned, but Starbuck has not. He is one of my favorites too.

The League of Extraordinary Gentleman by Alan Moore

The comic series that is is based on, not the movie. It needs to be read at least twice to realize how many literary references are in there. It is incredible. I think that nobody is too old to enjoy both of the collected series.

It is sad that the film was not good enough to create a sequel, which as published had them taking on the Martian hordes as they attack London. Mr. Hyde goes like The Hulk on the tripods. Fun stuff.

There are two reference books that cover both series of the group and there is no literary character from that period that goes unnoticed.

mark

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Originally posted by the ancient marinerWho said there was no Sanity Clause, Bah humbug !!!!!!!!!!!

That was Chico Marx, and I wish I could remember what movie that was from.

All you military fans should check out Casca, by Barry Sadler, who's infinitely more famous for The Ballad of the Green Beret.

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Originally posted by Big Ugly Mich

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Originally posted by the ancient marinerWho said there was no Sanity Clause, Bah humbug !!!!!!!!!!!

That was Chico Marx, and I wish I could remember what movie that was from.

All you military fans should check out Casca, by Barry Sadler, who's infinitely more famous for The Ballad of the Green Beret.

It's from the contract scene in "Night at the Opera."

Tmiles,
My favorite C S Forester book wasn't part of the Hornblower series..although I read most of them, too. It was "The Good Shepherd". A novel of Convoy duty in the North Atlantic during WWII.

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Originally posted by abe_froeman

Atticus Finch

Finally, one I recognize!

How 'bout Owen Meany?

I'll put in a vote for Owen Meany.

Aslan. There's one.

How about some female ones?

Morgan, from Mist of Avalon.

Mrs. Piggle Wiggle. (heehee)

Becky Bloomwood.
ok, I'm being silly....

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Originally posted by Pwingsx

I'll put in a vote for Owen Meany.

Aslan. There's one.

How about some female ones?

Morgan, from Mist of Avalon.

Mrs. Piggle Wiggle. (heehee)

Becky Bloomwood.

ok, I'm being silly....

I can't remember the Author but he has a female CSI who "walks the grid" for the famous CSI guy who was paralyzed on the job, gotta like her. WHO is she, driving me nuts!

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Originally posted by LuckyLabrador

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Originally posted by Pwingsx

I'll put in a vote for Owen Meany.

Aslan. There's one.

How about some female ones?

Morgan, from Mist of Avalon.

Mrs. Piggle Wiggle. (heehee)

Becky Bloomwood.

ok, I'm being silly....

I can't remember the Author but he has a female CSI who "walks the grid" for the famous CSI guy who was paralyzed on the job, gotta like her. WHO is she, driving me nuts!

Amelia Sachs from the Jeffrey Deavers "Lincoln Rymes" series.

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Originally posted by doggydaddy



The League of Extraordinary Gentleman by Alan Moore

The comic series that is is based on, not the movie. It needs to be read at least twice to realize how many literary references are in there. It is incredible. I think that nobody is too old to enjoy both of the collected series.

It is sad that the film was not good enough to create a sequel, which as published had them taking on the Martian hordes as they attack London. Mr. Hyde goes like The Hulk on the tripods. Fun stuff.

There are two reference books that cover both series of the group and there is no literary character from that period that goes unnoticed.

mark

Doggydaddy, that series is indeed fantastic. I can't wait for the next book, The Black Dossier, to come out in October. I love the enormous attention to detail paid by Moore and the artist Kevin O'Neil.

If you're a fan of superheroes, check out Top Ten by Alan More. The story of a police force in a city where everyone is a superhero, it's great. So much detail in every panel. References to comics and science fiction abound; I see something new every time I pick up one of the books.

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Originally posted by Al-The Mayor-Bowen

Tmiles,
My favorite C S Forester book wasn't part of the Hornblower series..although I read most of them, too. It was "The Good Shepherd". A novel of Convoy duty in the North Atlantic during WWII.

"The Gun" was a good one too, and "Rifleman Dodd" was required reading when I was in the Marines. I think that my great aunt mentioned that she met the author when she worked as a secretary to the boss at The Saturday Evening Post. I should have paid more attention to her memories.

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Originally posted by Davydd

Recently,,,Mitch Rapp and Jack Reacher. Mitch Rapp is Vince Flynn's legal assassin for the USA and Jack Reacher just kills honorably for Lee Child.

You want me to go softer? I can as long as they are in the mystery genre.

My personal two favorites, I say Rapp could take Reacher, what do you think Davydd?

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Originally posted by Pat T Hat

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Originally posted by LuckyLabrador

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Originally posted by Pwingsx

I'll put in a vote for Owen Meany.

Aslan. There's one.

How about some female ones?

Morgan, from Mist of Avalon.

Mrs. Piggle Wiggle. (heehee)

Becky Bloomwood.

ok, I'm being silly....

I can't remember the Author but he has a female CSI who "walks the grid" for the famous CSI guy who was paralyzed on the job, gotta like her. WHO is she, driving me nuts!

Amelia Sachs from the Jeffrey Deavers "Lincoln Rymes" series.

Miss Marple!

Mr. Rochester, from Jane Eyre

Capt. Francis X, Delaney, from the Lawrence Saunders "Deadly Sins" mysteries

Kinsey Milhone, from Sue Grafton's "alphabet" mysteries

Det. Carella, from Ed McBain's 87th Precinct series

Kay Scarpetta, from the Patricia Cromwell mysteries

I'll nominate Tarzan, Sherlock Holmes, Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin, Lord Peter Death Bredon Wimsey, and Bond, Commander James Bond, CMG, RNVR among many others.

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Originally posted by LuckyLabrador

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Originally posted by Davydd

Recently,,,Mitch Rapp and Jack Reacher. Mitch Rapp is Vince Flynn's legal assassin for the USA and Jack Reacher just kills honorably for Lee Child.

You want me to go softer? I can as long as they are in the mystery genre.

My personal two favorites, I say Rapp could take Reacher, what do you think Davydd?

Mitch Rapp has the full resources of the United States government and high technology backing him as he goes about wiping out terrorists. Jack Reacher usually hooks up with a local gal, borrows a gun and then proceeds to blow away all the bad guys. He manages to do that without a trace too.

Since they are both on the good side I guess they will never have the chance to face off.

Okay, I just reread Call of the Wild and White Fang over the weekend, and I need to edit my list to add Buck and White Fang to my favorites.

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Originally posted by skylar0neOkay, I just reread Call of the Wild and White Fang over the weekend, and I need to edit my list to add Buck and White Fang to my favorites.

I had a bartender friend years ago whose dog tore into a would-be robber, chasing the robber away. Dog's name: Kichie. What hat do you suppose my friend pulled that one out of? Myself, I've always had a soft spot for Lady, the Tramp (partly because the initials they decorate with paw prints, JM, in the best scene in the movie except at Tony's, are my initials), Pongo, and Perdita (and company), and let us not forget the very real Balto.

Of course we can't forget Balto and the other heroic dogs who were the inspiration for the Iditarod race. One of the best dogs I ever had was a Husky, and I have a lot of love and respect for the working dog breeds. Their loyalty, and their willingness to help mankind is awesome.

In the mystery genre, I'm also pretty fond of Christy's Hercule Poirot.

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Originally posted by skylar0ne


In the mystery genre, I'm also pretty fond of Christy's Hercule Poirot.

YES! YES! YES! He's one of the greatest!

P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves.

Plastic man (yes, I'm serious).

Jon Snow from George R.R. Martin's A Song of Fire and Ice series.

Perrin from Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time series, which has sadly been going downhill for years now.

Stephen King's Roland the Gunslinger.

Fahfrd and The Gray Mouser from Fritz Leiber's series.

Bigby Wolf from the comic book series Fables.

Lady Jessica Atriedes from the Dune series. I may be a Bene Gesserit.

Keller - Hit man with a concience (sp)?
Mike