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most disliked or irritating heroine?

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spendthrift · 18/11/2011 23:54

On a similar basis to the most dire book you've finished, who are the heroines you have most disliked? Mine are: Emma in pole position, then Catherine Morland, Marianne and Eleanor (although I like Jane Austen - bizarre), the heroine of The Bell Jar, and Esther in Bleak House.

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newbiedoobiedoo · 20/11/2011 16:44

midnightexpress from Twilight series! :)

FryingNemo · 20/11/2011 16:44

Bridget Jones.

The Shopaholic woman. Made me want to stick pins intoy eyes.

midnightexpress · 20/11/2011 16:43

Who is Bella? Confused

midnightexpress · 20/11/2011 16:41

I'm with you on Emma, OP. Especially as interpreted by Gwynnie, but anyway. Bossyboots.

I kind of like Esther, but I suppose she is a bit wet, and what's with the dear darling Ada when she's only known her for 5 minutes?

I'm not mad about Emma Bovary.

newbiedoobiedoo · 20/11/2011 16:41

Bella - for setting feminism back about 1000 years!

Fanny - Mansfield Park

Cathy - Wuthering Heights (though are we supposed to hate her?)

Becky Bloomfield from the Shopoholic Series...funny in the first one, painful by the last!

fivegomadindorset · 20/11/2011 16:37

Bella whatever her name was.

DuchessofMalfi · 20/11/2011 16:35

Scarlett O'Hara. What a thoroughly spoilt brat. She needed a really good slap for her selfish behaviour.

Kayano · 19/11/2011 18:53

Bella Swan

Read twilight to
Try and understand the hype and she made me feel physically sick. Angry

tocha · 19/11/2011 11:02

yes, it all went downhill after she brought that character back from the dead. I just about coped with the being stalked by serial killers from previous books plots but that was the end for me with Scarpetta!

Jacksmania · 19/11/2011 04:07

Oh I got so sick of the Scarpetta novels!!! I let a number of years go by before I read the most recent one, Port Mortuary. What. A. Piece. Of. Crap!!!!!!!!!!!

louderthanbombs · 19/11/2011 01:15

Yes, Cathy! Grr

FloydieDoydie · 19/11/2011 01:02

I meant each book plot was by numbers.

I kept going with them up until Blowfly when I totally snapped and actually did throw the book across the room. They all went to my grandad to take to the pensioners club - I felt guilty inflicting them on the elderly!

Oh! And she kept bringing people back from the bloody dead to suit her story. Bloody lazy writing.

Cheboludo · 19/11/2011 01:02

Fucking Cathy

darksideofthemooncup · 19/11/2011 01:01

Bridget Fecking jones

FloydieDoydie · 19/11/2011 00:59

Scarpetta in the Patricia Cornwell books -just so smug I wanted to punch her. The first book was pretty engaging, after about 6 books the character was irritating the hell out of me and the plot was totally by numbers.

Also the annoying niece who just happened to have recently acquired a new skill/job etc that is coincidentally vital to the case Scarpetta is currently working on

MotherMucca · 19/11/2011 00:55

To bring it down to literature lite:

Nicci French's female protagonists are awful.

SirBoobAlot · 19/11/2011 00:52

Whats-her-face from Pride and Prejudice (that's how irritating she is, can't remember her bloody name. Or it could be that its 1am) - makes me want to slap her.

Cosette in Les Miserables - what a useless sap.

seasalt · 19/11/2011 00:33

I think Mary is the real heroine in Mansfield Park.

MegBusset · 19/11/2011 00:07

Jane Eyre.

tocha · 19/11/2011 00:01

Fanny in Mansfield Park, Bella in Twilight.