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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!

Who are yours? I'm sure I have more ...

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0x530x610x750x630x79 · 09/09/2015 21:53

Aghhh

"given that she [Bridget Jones] barely managed to function as an adult"**
*
I read one chapter of the second book, she was ignoring the advice of her friends in happy relationships and taking the stupid stupid advice of long time single twits*

0x530x610x750x630x79 · 09/09/2015 21:52

"given that she [Bridget Jones] barely managed to function as an adult"

FairNotFit · 09/09/2015 21:51

Oh, and Jo Bettany/Maynard in the later Chalet School books. Smug busybody.

FairNotFit · 09/09/2015 21:50

Lily Dale from Trollope's Barsetshire series. Irritating woman.

ReluctantCamper · 09/09/2015 21:49

Oh yeah, the shopaholic. self sabotaging twat. Didn't make it to the end of the first book.

Gwen , in the second book, doesn't Bridget Jones take a package through customs for someone else that later proves to contain drugs (it's been a while since I read it)? Not the actions of the sharpest tool in the box.

Sadik · 09/09/2015 21:49

I like Fanny Price Blush . The one who drives me round the bend (well, apart from Emma) is Catherine Morland. I just want to give her a good shake and tell her to get her shit together.

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Shiningdew · 09/09/2015 21:48

Yeah, Becky Bloomwood from the shopaholic series Grin

I do love a bit of Sophie Kinsella, mind. It's like an anti depressant. I haven't read one for a while - went through a stage where I barely read anything else! They really do make me laugh out loud Blush

Jodi Piccoult has a lot of frigging annoying characters.

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Gwenhwyfar · 09/09/2015 21:45

"given that she [Bridget Jones] barely managed to function as an adult"

She had a career in TV, plenty of friends and a close relationship with her parents. Her life wasn't all she wanted, but it wasn't that bad.

Tanito279 · 09/09/2015 21:44

Oh and Titanium, I totally agree with you!

Gwenhwyfar · 09/09/2015 21:44

"The protagonist in Shantaram."

Well, yeah he got involved with the mafia and went to fight in a war. Kind of an anti-hero really.

Tanito279 · 09/09/2015 21:42

Whatshername, the shopaholic. Learn to budget, you stupid woman!

SouthWestmom · 09/09/2015 21:42

Lego - Mary Poppins is a book! It was a book first!

0x530x610x750x630x79 · 09/09/2015 21:40

Sorry hadn't read the whole thread then saw this just above mine:

Jane Austen didn't expect anyone to like Emma, but at least she had a bit of spirit, even if most of what she did was wrong. Fanny Price, now there's a wet dishrag of a character.

PavlovtheCat · 09/09/2015 21:40

Fitz in the Robin Hobb books.

0x530x610x750x630x79 · 09/09/2015 21:39

Everyone in jane Austin's poor little niece one, (sorry dislike them all so much refuse to remember any names)

HarrietVane99 · 09/09/2015 21:32

Jane Austen didn't expect anyone to like Emma, but at least she had a bit of spirit, even if most of what she did was wrong. Fanny Price, now there's a wet dishrag of a character.

And most of Dickens' heroines are dripping wet.

bialystockandbloom · 09/09/2015 21:21

biscuits it was Esther I think, in Bleak House. And I agree! Sometimes nicknamed Dame Durden, which totally suited her.

I never liked Jane in Pride & Prejudice. Maybe she was supposed to be the symbol of subservient woman at the time, but god she was dull. Though maybe we weren't supposed to like her.

AnneEtAramis · 09/09/2015 21:15

God, all of them in Little Women. I have a special bit of hatred for Jo but I couldn't bear any of them.

Rose, in The Dust That Falls From Dreams.

beaucoupdemojo · 09/09/2015 21:13

I think Cathy and Heathcliff are supposed to be unlikeable.

Mine is Maggie in Mill on the Floss - like in Tess, I wished she'd stip being so bloody wet and do something good for herself!

ClashCityRocker · 09/09/2015 21:11

Frannie from The Stand.

She seems to think everything revolves around her and has a distinct lack of spunk.

Also, Ursula from life after life. She's ducking boring.

Tinfoiled · 09/09/2015 21:10

Except maybe for Hareton at the very end...

Elllicam · 09/09/2015 21:09

Agree with Jo March, quite liked Amy though. Marmee was a bit of a pain as well.

Tinfoiled · 09/09/2015 21:09

I think Emily Bronte made cathy and heathcliff deliberately unsympathetic. There's actually not a nice character in the whole novel!

Cheeezz · 09/09/2015 21:08

Bella in the twilight books. Bell end.

ReluctantCamper · 09/09/2015 21:06

Also not a book, but I thought Carrie Bradshaw was a tiresome fuck up. In a similar vein, when Bridget Jones came out there was a bit of a trend of people claiming to be just like her. given that she barely managed to function as an adult, I'm not too sure why you'd want to advertise that fact.

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