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Which character from fiction would you like as a friend?

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CromartyForthTyneDogger · 11/01/2024 16:40

If you could have any character from a book as your best friend who would you choose?

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AltitudeCheck · 04/02/2024 13:29

@TitusMoan she sounds just as socially awkward as me so we'd have plenty of common ground to bond over! 😆

Beetlewings · 04/02/2024 13:09

Claire Fraser (Beauchamp) from the Outlander books. She's so capable

TitusMoan · 04/02/2024 12:03

AltitudeCheck · 03/02/2024 10:48

Elisabeth Zott (accompanied by six-thirty) and Thursday Next (with Pickwick)...

Elizabeth Zott wouldn’t know how to do friendships, especially not with a woman.

AltitudeCheck · 03/02/2024 10:48

Elisabeth Zott (accompanied by six-thirty) and Thursday Next (with Pickwick)...

Tootingbec · 03/02/2024 10:34

@Loopytiles

Judith Kerr’s Mog!!

Loopytiles · 03/02/2024 10:04

Mog by Judith Kerr or from Meg & Mog?

I’d love to spend a day with Winnie the Witch.

Where’s Wally would be annoying, though: I don’t like travel or crowds and he’s clearly a narcissist!

Tootingbec · 03/02/2024 08:19

Mog 😻

MotherOfCatBoy · 03/02/2024 08:14

Jo March
Sam Gamgee (and Merry and Pippin down the pub)
Dolly from Anna Karenina and Marya from War & Peace
Ursula from Life after Life

IcakethereforeIam · 02/02/2024 14:32

Mavin Manyshaped, don't take no crap from anyone.

TabbyM · 02/02/2024 12:34

Thanks I'll be getting some from The Bettany Press!

IsadoraQuagmire · 25/01/2024 15:43

TabbyM · 25/01/2024 15:38

@IsadoraQuagmire @PuddleglumtheMarshWiggle I just discovered there are more Susan books than I knew of in my youth (charity shops bargains) including Susan's Trying Term which I found online - I had only heard of the first 6:

  • Susan Pulls the Strings (1952)[8]
  • Susan's Helping Hand (1955)[9]
  • Susan Rushes In (1956)
  • Susan Interferes (1957)
  • Susan at School (1958)
  • Susan Muddles Through (1960)[10]
  • Susan's Trying Term (1961)[11]
  • No Trouble for Susan (1962)
  • Susan's Kind Heart (1965)
  • Where is Susan? (1968)
  • A Job for Susan (1969)
I am also a Midge fan!

I've got them all, some are reprints from The Bettany Press. I've also got this, as well as some of her other books.

Which character from fiction would you like as a friend?
TabbyM · 25/01/2024 15:38

@IsadoraQuagmire @PuddleglumtheMarshWiggle I just discovered there are more Susan books than I knew of in my youth (charity shops bargains) including Susan's Trying Term which I found online - I had only heard of the first 6:

  • Susan Pulls the Strings (1952)[8]
  • Susan's Helping Hand (1955)[9]
  • Susan Rushes In (1956)
  • Susan Interferes (1957)
  • Susan at School (1958)
  • Susan Muddles Through (1960)[10]
  • Susan's Trying Term (1961)[11]
  • No Trouble for Susan (1962)
  • Susan's Kind Heart (1965)
  • Where is Susan? (1968)
  • A Job for Susan (1969)
I am also a Midge fan!
tobee · 22/01/2024 17:39

Also maybe Miss Marple? Hmm. Think she'd be interesting and comforting too.

tobee · 22/01/2024 17:36

I don't know about as a friend friend iyswim but I like the idea of Sherlock Holmes having to get out a Bradshaws, look up the time of the next train to wherever, and go scooting of on an adventure. The rest of his proclivities might become tiresome.

I don't want Bertie Wooster as a friend really but always keen on the lifestyle that I might get invited to join in with. Meeting up at The Drones for lunch and a bread roll fight. Taking in a new show in the evening. Going off to the weekend at some country pile (especially if Anatole is the chef), sorting out some pals love life when they accidentally get engaged. Accompanying them to the magistrate's court the next morning when they've been done for stealing a policeman's helmet during a midnight treasure hunt etc. A life of idleness but with few monetary worries.

Polecat07 · 22/01/2024 15:10

Samuel Hamilton, of East of Eden.
Hagrid and Hermione from HP. Oh, and Molly Weasley. A whole bunch from HP, actually.

Alchemistress · 19/01/2024 12:12

Magdalen Vanstone from Willie Collins' No Name. That girl was a dedicated schemer.

Isheabastard · 19/01/2024 12:02

@HarpyRampant I started reading the thread unable to think of a character. Then you posted Prue Sarn and I thought yes, she’s one of the kindest, sweetest characters I’ve ever come across. Precious Bane is my favourite book ever and I’m so glad she found her true love.

gingerpassthegin · 19/01/2024 11:44

Nancy Blackett! And Madeline Dare in the books by Cornelia Read. Both would be amusing, brave, loyal and have Adventures.

TweeBee · 19/01/2024 11:30

I’m just about to start this book!

Allthegoodnamesarechosen · 19/01/2024 11:29

Bagoas , Alexander’s lover, servant and devoted friend, : ‘ The Persian Boy’

( although he did exist, but no one knows what he was really like, so I think he counts as fiction)

LunaNorth · 19/01/2024 11:28

And Mercy Garrett from Ann Tyler’s French Braid.

LunaNorth · 19/01/2024 11:26

Flora Poste. She’d give good, no-nonsense advice and be unshockable.

GertrudeOHara · 19/01/2024 11:22

Janey Lloyd-Foxe, even at her most appalling.

And the Grand Sophy.

sharptoothlemonshark · 19/01/2024 11:21

PTSDBarbiegirl · 17/01/2024 20:16

Buzz Lightyear
Cormorant Strike

I came on this thread to say Cormoran Strike!

DahliaMacNamara · 19/01/2024 11:19

Looking at the Rather Dated thread, I think I would pick Dinah from The Fancy. Kind, fun, straight-talking, practical, and with enough of her own life that she wouldn't be on your doorstep every five minutes.

As a bonus I might have Betsey Trotwood as a next door neighbour, to see off undesirables.