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Just to lower the tone - which literary hero/ine would you most like to cop off with?

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artifarti · 08/06/2009 19:26

I developed a huge crush on Tom Jones (eponymous hero of Henry Fielding novel) whilst at university. I thought he was a bit racy and go-getting, whilst at heart a thoroughly decent chap (ah, my Professor would be proud of that literary summary...)

Shortly after, I heard they were to make a film of it and, Reader, my heart raced.

After months of fevered speculation I found out that the lead role had gone to Max Beesly . Nooooo, wrong, wrong, wrong!

So, which literary figure has most set your heart/loins a-flutter?

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puffylovett · 09/06/2009 22:35

Gilbert Blythe from the later Anne books was a big crush of mine for a long time. Oh, and for a while, him out of American Psycho - the danger element !!

procrastinatingparent · 09/06/2009 22:34

janeite - no offence , but you are so wrong! Matthew M looked like he had a terrible stomach-ache all the way through that film. (And it was Jane Austen as filmed by a Bronte sister - romantic but wrong).

LaundryFairy · 09/06/2009 22:33

I'm happy to share him with you LyraSilvertonge as you have such a splendid name . Which reminds me that I kind of fancy Lee Scorseby...

blackrock · 09/06/2009 22:30

Glutten for punishment...Heathcliffe.

The boyfreind in 'The Go between'

The weird boyfriend in 'Killing me Softly'.

janeite · 09/06/2009 22:30

I have said it before and I say it again now: Matthew M so much sexier than Colin Firth.

wastingmyeducation · 09/06/2009 22:28

John Proctor

Lestat

I fancied Lawrence in My Family and Other Animals, when I was 10.

Fancied Mr. Rochester, but only as portrayed by Toby Stephens.

Colin Firth's Mr. Darcy was a defining moment of my adolescence. (But I've still not read the book )

Ronaldinhio · 09/06/2009 22:25

rupert campbell black

FairLadyRantALot · 09/06/2009 22:20

hm...now I had to endure Wuthering Heights....and surely that heathcliff character is just wrong....on many levels.....why would people "fancy" that...

however, little disclaimer, I kinda possibly didn't get the movie, it was so wrong in my eyes...is the book different...

ladymariner · 09/06/2009 22:15

Heathcliffe. You can't beat a bit of rough plus I always wanted a man who would tell me that his love for me was as eternal as the rocks beneath........

Poppity · 09/06/2009 22:09

thanks artifarti

Does this mean I can also have Gavin Maxwell? I want to live at Camusfearna with him

procrastinatingparent · 09/06/2009 22:07

Thank you, ShrinkingViolet - I will enjoy!

(Actually, it could have been any of GH's dark masterful heroes, but Sylvester sticks in the mind somehow. )

Pan · 09/06/2009 22:07

Dorothea Brooke from Middlemarch. So worthy, and pent up.

She lets the dry old Casaubon have a go at her for years.

Bet she would go like a train.

KnickKnack · 09/06/2009 22:06

It has to be Jack Reacher every time [swoon]

gallusbesom · 09/06/2009 22:04

janeite - it was Wizard and Glass that cemented my lust for him

TheMysticMasseuse · 09/06/2009 22:04

Mr Rochester of course. also post-maiming (he still had one hand left )

also Detective Singh from Sacred Games (if anyone has read it), a sweaty, hairy, slightly past his prime Sikh anti-hero

FairLadyRantALot · 09/06/2009 21:57

that professor guy that Jo got it together with, in little women....

stroppyknickers · 09/06/2009 21:54

Elliot from The Greengage Summer. I still love him a little bit for the ladder thing with Jess.

janeite · 09/06/2009 21:51

I definitely claimed Roland first.

LyraSilvertongue · 09/06/2009 21:48

Laundryfairy, I forgot about Robbie Turner. Yes, I'll have him too.

ShrinkingViolet · 09/06/2009 21:47

procrastinatingparent the lovely Richard Armitage (who sadly isn't a fictional character ) is narrating a new audio book version of Sylvester, chapter one available here. (have been ignored on the GH appreciation thread so am crossposting )

Not sure I'd have Jamie Fraser (might have flashbacks to real Scots from my past who were nowhere near as shaggable as JF ).

Sebastian from the Wells series though, and almost all of the Georgette Heyer heroes, but not Adam from a Civil Contract, he's a bit boring and normal.

gallusbesom · 09/06/2009 21:44

Jack Parlabane & Zal Innez (from Christopher Brookmyre novels)
Book & Film Edward Cullen
Jacob Black (New Moon version)
Roland from Dark Tower

janeite · 09/06/2009 21:40

at Satan!!!

feralgirl · 09/06/2009 21:34

Holden Caulfield. Have managed to resist the temptation to name my DS after him though...

jkklpu · 09/06/2009 21:22

Holden Caulfield (when I was in early teens)
Captain Corelli (until Nicolas Cage got the role)

MogTheForgetfulCat · 09/06/2009 21:20

Satan in Paradise Lost - used to teach it to a group of very sweet posh girls, and we were all mad for him

Also Mr Rochester (swoon!), Father Ralph de Bricassart (Thorn Birds!) and the husband in The Time Traveller's Wife - I loved him!