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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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TwllBach · 09/09/2015 20:17

HATED pip in great expectations.

Also, Harry potter himself!!

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Shiningdew · 09/09/2015 20:16

Thought of another one - the narrator in Incendiary.

Sex, sex, sex, my boy, I'm poor, sex, I'm still poor, sex.

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MaisieDotes · 09/09/2015 20:14

The protagonist in Shantaram.

I had to stop reading the book because he annoyed me so much, and I usually would never abandon a book.

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Shiningdew · 09/09/2015 20:14

I can see that! Hermione in particular would irritate me if I had been at school with her, I think.

I have to admit I could sometimes see Snape's POV re Harry!

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Biscuitsneeded · 09/09/2015 20:13

The ghastly, sanctimonious, prissy little heroine of Bleak House. Can't remember her name. She gets the pox, survives, but is horribly scarred. Good.

Doublebubblebubble · 09/09/2015 20:13

Not that hp is adult fiction... X

Doublebubblebubble · 09/09/2015 20:11

I'm going to get flamed, I'm going to get flamed, I'm going to get flamed!!!

Ron Weasley and Hermione Grainger