Posted by MaggieH (admin)
Jul 6, 2010 11:47 pm

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• Severus Snape!

  Jul 7, 2010 6:50 pm
  by danahuff

• Conan the Barbarian or Mike Valentine Smith.. :-)

  Jul 7, 2010 6:58 pm
  by zensmile

• Jeeves, Alan Quatermain, Catkin (Anasazi Mysteries III), The Elephant's Child (not that young elephants are fictional but this one went to the banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River all set about with fever trees to find out what the Crocodile had for dinner and got a new nose...)

  Jul 7, 2010 7:09 pm
  by kwkslvr

• Flashman! The evil cowardly upper classman of Tom Brown's Schooldays goes on to save the British Empire, despite himself. thanks to George MacDonald Fraser. (not for the kiddies...)

  Jul 7, 2010 9:11 pm
  by dwwright99

• I know the list said since 1900, but really Dicken's Scrooge wins hands down as an icon that everyone knows. Who has not said "Bah, humbug?" More recently, probably Lizabeth from the Stieg series.

  Jul 8, 2010 8:22 am
  by dreamdust

• Either Neil Gaiman's Sandman or Robert Rankin's Elvis Presley with Barry the time travelling Brussel sprout in his head (Armageddon: The Musical for anyone who is curious. Very funny book)
  
  I was not surprised that neither character made the list!

  Jul 8, 2010 9:51 am
  by cresswga

• My favorite is definitely Dickon from The Secret Garden. He's the Nature child I wish I could still be.

  Jul 8, 2010 6:57 pm
  by edavies

• Mrs. Pollifax, Precious Romatswe, Miss Marple; hmm Do I detect a trend here?

  Jul 9, 2010 1:14 am
  by bobberu

• Just off the top of my head Roland Deschain from Steven King's Dark Tower and Sherlock Holmes are two of my all-time favorites.

  Jul 9, 2010 12:39 pm
  by dennis51wb

• Damon Cross from Richard Wright's "The Outsider."
  
  *thumbs up* on Sandman, Cresswga!

  Jul 9, 2010 1:34 pm
  by Aadarshini27

• Don Corleone, from The Godfather, by Mario Puzo

  Jul 9, 2010 6:50 pm
  by moengey

• Pi - Life of Pi

  Jul 9, 2010 11:07 pm
  by donnalynn

• Arthur Dent from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Rincewind the Wizzard (sic) from Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels, and of course, Doctor Who, of TV and several novels.

  Jul 10, 2010 10:06 am
  by Xena13

• Of course it's Luggage, Rincewind's devoted (?) companion.

  Jul 10, 2010 11:54 pm
  by Susan42

• Lestat and Louis from the Vampire Chronicles.

  Jul 19, 2010 8:32 pm
  by cellis7091

• God

  Jul 21, 2010 10:25 am
  by freakuency13

• Ditto on "Conan the Barbarian"
  James Bond (Fleming novels only)
  Aloysius X. L. Pendergast (in several novels by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child)

  Jul 21, 2010 3:59 pm
  by Golem100

• How could I forget: Mike Hammer by Mickey Spillane.

  Jul 21, 2010 4:04 pm
  by Golem100

• And Dave Robicheaux by James Lee Burke and Kay Scarpetta by Patricia Cornwell. I would love to see a cross-over novel with these two characters.

  Jul 21, 2010 4:07 pm
  by Golem100

• Lazarus Long, Jamie Retief,

  Jul 22, 2010 1:10 pm
  by morbius

• (oops, hit the wrong button) Gilbert Gosseyn, Lucky Starr, Gully Foyle, Kirth Gersen. and others.

  Jul 22, 2010 1:24 pm
  by morbius

• Ah yes, Gully Foyle. Good one, morbius.

  Jul 22, 2010 7:50 pm
  by Golem100

• Frodo

  Jul 23, 2010 1:47 pm
  by fbales

• YES, Severus Snape! From Neil Gaiman's Sandman, I love Death and Delirium.

  Jul 23, 2010 11:58 pm
  by emilyyoung

• Albus Dumbledore and Lisbeth Salander.

  Jul 26, 2010 3:55 pm
  by lisaew62

• Horatio Hornblower

  Jul 27, 2010 12:22 am
  by Okia

• Dirk Pitt, Special Agent Pendegraast and Jack Ryan are on top of my list among recurring charecters but for a one time character I have to go with Stu Redman from The Stand.

  Jul 27, 2010 10:59 pm
  by fcividanes

• Sherlock Holmes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  Aug 1, 2010 5:46 am
  by nalinib

• Aziraphale and Crowley from Good Omens, Elizabeth Bennett, Albus Dumbledore, Lazarus Long, Ford Prefect and Honor Harrington.

  Aug 13, 2010 11:59 am
  by Pam_Beancounter

• So Many I don't know where to begin. Sherlock Holmes, Harry Dresden, Albus Dumbeldore, Aloysius X. L. Pendergast, Daniel X, Alex Cross, John Taylor (Nightside Series), Coraline, Cat Crawfield, Anything Steven King, and many, many more.

  Aug 13, 2010 10:40 pm
  by fam6ali

• Sydney Carton - A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
  Elinor Dashwood - Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
  Melanie Hamilton Wilkes - Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
  Atticus Finch - To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

  Aug 19, 2010 7:37 pm
  by sonata58

• Scout Finch - To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  Ponyboy - The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

  Aug 22, 2010 9:51 pm
  by shesinplainview

• Huckleberry Finn, Joe March, Scout Finch, Kay Scarpetta

  Sep 4, 2010 10:05 pm
  by eyewrite