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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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browntrout · 09/06/2009 21:19

yes to John Proctor
also Brian from Tales of the City. Had him in my sights from book 1!

Mspontipine · 09/06/2009 21:10

RCB definately but would have to be pre-Taggie - he would never cheat on her.

Rialentless · 09/06/2009 21:08

yes to Laurence Durrell, I also used to have a thing about the younger Farnon brother from the James Herriot books

BarnMummy · 09/06/2009 20:41

Justin the Duke of Avon from Georgette Heyer's These Old Shades, Devil's Cub and An Infamous Army.

procrastinatingparent · 09/06/2009 20:39

I'm versatile across genres, me.

Detective: Lord Peter Wimsey (I can recite Gaudy Night and Busman's Honeymoon.)
Bonkbuster: Rupert Campbell Black, naturellement
Trashy thrillers with too many guns: Jack Reacher
Childhood classics: not Gilbert Blythe - he has no discernible personality, but Dean Priest in the Emily books. And Bill Barry from the Sue Barton novels.
Period romance: Sylvester (Georgette Heyer)
Literary: Mr Knightley, rather than Mr Darcy

LaundryFairy · 09/06/2009 20:38

Robbie Turner from Ian McEwan's Attonment (played by James McAvoy in the film). Wonderfully filthy letter he inadverdantly sent to Cecilia got me all hot a bothered...

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artifarti · 09/06/2009 20:31

Poppity - you can, coz it's my thread and Cider with Rosie is one of my absolute favourites.

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Poppity · 09/06/2009 20:30

Another non fiction one, Laurence Durrell in Gerald Durrell's books about his family. Guess I only like the real ones

Wouldn't say no to Mr Darcy though...I have to say, Colin Firth was pretty much how I had pictured him.

Poppity · 09/06/2009 20:27

He's not fictional, but he is a character in his own books, so can I have the lovely

Laurie Lee

Pleeeeeeease?

StewieGriffinsMom · 09/06/2009 20:22

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DinoNel · 09/06/2009 20:21

I second Dalek. I'm not one for lusting after unknown men, fictional or real, just not in my temperament, but Jamie Fraser in the Diana Gabaldon books is something else.
I'm glad they've never made it into a film so that nothing has tampered with my idea of him. Can't honestly say that it is literature though.

Thanks all for providing an excellent list of holiday reads.

PlumpRumpSoggyBaps · 09/06/2009 20:21

I'm with dalek- Jamie Fraser from the Cross Stitch series. All manly and hard thighed and noble.....sigh!!

hellymelly · 09/06/2009 20:13

just remembered my huge teenage crush on the english officer in Ryan's Daughter-I do like a man with a limp.

hellymelly · 09/06/2009 20:08

Mr Rochester-ooh.I LOVE Toby Stephens in that role,I love Mr Rochester even more than Mr Darcy,Mr.Rochester has more of a sense of humour (comes over all faint and has to go and lie down)

VintageGardenia · 09/06/2009 20:08

madwomanintheattic you may be the only woman on this thread Mr Rochester has actually "bedded" ...

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artifarti · 09/06/2009 20:04

madwomanintheattic - Sean Bean, yes, dribble (but then I saw him playing the 70's-dress-sense, swan-obsessed, paedo-murderer in the Red Riding trilogy and it all felt a bit lot wrong)

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hairygodmother · 09/06/2009 19:44

Another vote for Joe Morelli here! And Ranger too. Sigh.

But on a more literary note perhaps, Henry Tilney from Northanger Abbey, bless him.

madwomanintheattic · 09/06/2009 19:26

rhett butler

and a sneaking belated attraction for any literary type eventually played by sean bean lol. hindsight is a wonderful thing.

yossarian? really? bit odd for me... fave book of all time, but... nah.

anyone who went for mr rochester wants their head read lol.

TheFallenMadonna · 09/06/2009 19:24

Lord Peter Wimsey

Rialentless · 09/06/2009 19:22

Colonel Brandon
older RCB (Taggie onwards)
Gilbert Blythe
Jeeves
Strider or Faramir from LOTR

sunfleurs · 09/06/2009 19:14

Edward Cullen here too, both of them, movie and book pref at same time .

Aragorn - LOTR

Jack Reacher

Mr Darcy - same old, same old....

smultronstallet · 09/06/2009 19:04

Alex Randall from MM Kaye's Shadow of the Moon

Mr Darcy

lol at Jondalar - too "available" for me though, he's been round the block too many times.

LyraSilvertongue · 09/06/2009 18:19

and I'm not about it.

Oh and Dann from Mara and Dann (Doris Lessing). He's a bit of a nut but sexy with it.

Evenstar · 09/06/2009 18:19

Yes it was Ash in the Far Pavilions, and I liked him in the TV production too, played by Ben Cross.

LyraSilvertongue · 09/06/2009 18:16

Edward Cullen from Twilight (book Edward, not film Edward)