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Characters from books you HATE (that you're not supposed to!)

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Shiningdew · 09/09/2015 20:03

I have just finished The House I Grew Up In (Lisa Jewell) and I liked it but I couldn't stand Meg, the oldest daughter.

I got the feeling she'd really, really annoy me if I knew her Grin Smug, judgemental, bossy and mumsy.

I also didn't like Jill, of the Ruby Ferguson pony books, as a kid. She was always so intolerant of anyone nervy round horses!

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beguilingeyes · 15/12/2015 16:13

And yes, Dexter in One Day. What a jerk.

beguilingeyes · 15/12/2015 16:12

Scarlett O'Hara is a prize bitch.

romanrainsalot · 02/12/2015 10:43

All of them in Wuthering Heights. Hated that book with a passion.

BlueBlueSea · 26/09/2015 20:25

Wanted to slap Fanny Price.

Could not stand the two from Us.

Hated Rachel from The Girl on the Train.

Susie the bear from Hotel New Hamspshire really anoyed me.

ALassUnparalleled · 26/09/2015 18:50

Doesn't every sensible person dislike Anna Karenina and Gemma Bovary? Imagine how awful they would be if you'd met them in real life.

Same with Maggie Tulliver . Dorothea Brooke is quite annoying too.

Spidertracker · 26/09/2015 13:18

Melanie Wilkes.
She just annoys me so much, I just want her to smack Scarlett and say "Which part of Ashley is my husband is difficult for you to understand now give me my nephew and fuck off to Charleston"

Muckogy · 26/09/2015 13:09

the main protagonist of Eat, Pray, Love. she disappeared up her own arse years before she ever wrote that stupid book. that slimy old man that she eventually copped off with at the end of the book was repulsive too.
i hate that book.

LurkingQuietly · 26/09/2015 13:06

I'm fully prepared to be flamed but when I finished The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas, I had a fleeting half thought (before I stopped myself) of "good, I'm glad you died you annoying little twat" about the kid. The kid ffs. What is wrong with me?

jeee · 26/09/2015 12:48

Another vote for the Robin. I suspect she became a nun of the most sadistic kind, angel face or not.

Ilikedmyoldusernamebetter · 26/09/2015 12:19

Maggie from 'Mill on The Floss'

dementedma · 26/09/2015 12:16

Agree Cosette, and add Desdemona! Can't see Mrs Crawley in DA without seeing Penelope Wilton as Desdemona in the version of Othello we saw at school about a million years ago. She played it brilliantly though

cariadlet · 26/09/2015 12:09

Emma Bovary - self-centred and irritating, moaning over nothing. I felt sorry for her poor husband.

HappydaysArehere · 25/09/2015 19:23

Anna Karenia, what a selfish, hard hearted woman! She was as bad as her two timing brother. Much preferred her husband.

Bridget46 · 24/09/2015 17:40

Can't bear Victor Frankenstein; causes havoc and all he can think about is the effect on himself.

jorahmormont · 24/09/2015 15:28

Oh and Holden Caulfield from Catcher In The Rye. I like the book, I'm glad I read it, but jesus christ he's annoying.

jorahmormont · 24/09/2015 15:27

Everyone in Wuthering Heights. Just everyone.
I know it's not adult fiction, but Bella from Twilight can fuck the fuck off. Career suicide for Kirsten Stewart in the films.

Dapplegrey1 · 24/09/2015 15:21

Marianne Dashwood
Northey in Don't Tell Alfred. Did Nancy Mitford think she was likeable? Certainly Fanny and Alfred liked her but I think she comes over as smug and a sneak.

Wearyheadedlady · 24/09/2015 15:03

I don't know. I think Angel Clare is just supposed to be very human and very of the time. He judges Tess from the moral standpoint of someone during that era. Yes he is a hypocrite and a coward, but its like he's fantastic up to that point. Which makes it all the more tragic. I don't think I disliked him so much as his choices and behavior.

ALassUnparalleled · 24/09/2015 09:44

I don't think one is meant to like Angel Clare. I didn't get the impression Hardy liked him.

On the other hand Darcey we are meant to like and I don't. I don't like Elizabeth Bennett either (tbh all of Austen's heros and heroines annoy me)

TinklyLittleLaugh · 24/09/2015 00:31

Loads of romantic leads; Mr Darcy, Mr Rochester. Angel Clare is the worst though; he is off with Tess's younger sister before Tess is even cold.

mrsmortis · 22/09/2015 16:02

Cosette in Les Miserables. I much prefer Eponine as a character.

Corygal · 21/09/2015 15:20

Mr Rochester, lying dick.

1Q84 · 21/09/2015 09:37

I would also say Fanny Price except I cannot imagine anyone feeling they should like her.

hackmum · 21/09/2015 09:20

Oh yes, Love in the Time of Cholera was such a dull book. I feel guilty saying that because it's so highly regarded but I just couldn't get into it.

Glad I'm not the only one that feels that way about Horrid Henry. DP and I are fairly liberal parents but neither of us could understand the love people seem to feel about the HH books - he's just vile and charmless. Also, it's always annoyed me that the idea is so blatantly stolen from Just William, but without the likeability and inventiveness. Why has nobody else (apparently) spotted this?

MalloryTowels · 20/09/2015 04:06

And the two in Love in the Time of Cholera. I was desperate for them to die

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