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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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Chippednailvarnish · 09/09/2015 21:05

Yep, Tess. I just wanted to slap her and her feckless parents...

Ubik1 · 09/09/2015 21:05

Pollyanna

Amy March

legohurtswhenyoustandonit · 09/09/2015 21:03

Not a book, but Mary Poppins. Can't stand her.

TheEagle · 09/09/2015 21:01

Yy to the 2 in One Day. Especially Dexter!

Also hated the wife in Us. Didn't much like the husband or son either.

TitaniumOvaries · 09/09/2015 20:58

Oh and Paris in Homer's Iliad. WHAT a weasely, wife-stealing, spineless little cowardly wanker. He was lucky he had a big brother like Hector. Now him, I am still a bit in love with.

TitaniumOvaries · 09/09/2015 20:54

Anna Karenina. I was glad when she finally

TPel · 09/09/2015 20:52

Jo March in Little Women. Insufferable. I'm glad Laurie didn't marry her.

Emma as mentioned earlier

Helen Burns in Jane Eyre Yes I'm a bad person for that one.

PotOfYoghurt · 09/09/2015 20:51

Yes to Cathy, and throw in Heathcliff as well. I really dislike both of them.

BeeRayKay · 09/09/2015 20:50

Cathy in Wuthering Heights
Amy in Little Women.

ThenLaterWhenItGotDark · 09/09/2015 20:50

Agree about the 2 in One Day, and the Kite Runner fella. Like Eagle I thought the KR was crap anyway, just because the subject area is serious sure doesn't make it good writing. B

BathshebaDarkstone · 09/09/2015 20:50

Double I agree with you. Ron's a wuss and Hermione's an annoying swat a bit like I was.

noiwontstoptalking · 09/09/2015 20:45

Noooooooooooo. Zebra it's wonderful.

tumbletumble · 09/09/2015 20:45

Yy to the protagonist in Shantaram. So arrogant!

TheSpottedZebra · 09/09/2015 20:44

Jane Eyre. Fucking prig.
And Mr Rochester also.

I actually have quite a lot of hate for that entire novel.

APlaceOnTheCouch · 09/09/2015 20:42

Hardy's Tess - not the first time I read it. I was actually sympathetic to her then but by the third or fourth reading, I was so angry that she accepted Angel's hypocrisy and just meekly accepted her fate yy I know it was a damning indictment of the time but seriously get a grip woman

noiwontstoptalking · 09/09/2015 20:40

Amummuy Grin great minds!

ReluctantCamper · 09/09/2015 20:39

The hero of Lucky Jim. I think you're supposed to think he's a likeable but with faults. I just thought he was a tremendous wanker. He was so horrible to Margaret.

noiwontstoptalking · 09/09/2015 20:39

Emma Woodhouse needed a good slap in my opinion.

Mr Knightly what were you thinking of?

Amummyatlast · 09/09/2015 20:39

Emma in Jane Austen's Emma. In fact I hate the entire book, despite liking TV adaptations.

BertieBotts · 09/09/2015 20:38

I don't know, I never liked Snape even at the end when you're supposed to.

TheImprobableGirl · 09/09/2015 20:35

You were worried about getting flamed for the Harry Potter couple Doublebubblebubble and then you go and put a bloody kiss (x) at the end of your next post?!?!? Wink

LilacSpunkMonkey · 09/09/2015 20:33

Both of them in One Day. I don't know if that was the point but I found both of them very unlikeable.

And the two in The Time Traveller's Wife. To the point where I've started it twice and never got further than about two-thirds through it. Didn't care about either of them at all.

And Mr Rochester. Great romantic lead? No, no, no.

Don't get me started on the fella in The Thorn Birds. Pervert!

SydneyCarton · 09/09/2015 20:27

Lucie Manette in A Tale of Two Cities. No doubt meant to be the angelic suffering heroine but comes across like a drippy drama llama who spends half the time fainting and the other half delicately refusing marriage proposals.

Was pretty disappointed Madame Defarge didn't manage to do her in with a knitting needle Angry

TheEagle · 09/09/2015 20:19

The narrator of The Kite Runner.

Horrible, selfish, weak - willed.

Hated the book in general but I hated that character with a passion.

BoneyBackJefferson · 09/09/2015 20:17

Double

I would go one further and say Harry Potter and Dumbledore.