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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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stroppyknickers · 09/06/2009 21:54

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

FairLadyRantALot · 09/06/2009 21:57

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

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

gallusbesom · 09/06/2009 22:04

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

KnickKnack · 09/06/2009 22:06

It has to be Jack Reacher every time [swoon]

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.

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. )

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

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........

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...

Ronaldinhio · 09/06/2009 22:25

rupert campbell black

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 )

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.

blackrock · 09/06/2009 22:30

Glutten for punishment...Heathcliffe.

The boyfreind in 'The Go between'

The weird boyfriend in 'Killing me Softly'.

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...

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).

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 !!

kikidee · 09/06/2009 22:37

Jackson Brodie - Kate Atkinson's detective.
Mikael Blomkvist from the Stieg Larsson books.

Hassled · 09/06/2009 22:37

Yes to Jay Gatsby.
Yes to Mr Knightley.
Yes to Sherlock Holmes.

There must be more - will think.

Hassled · 09/06/2009 22:38

Ooh - Steve Carella. From the Ed McBain 89th Precinct books. Possibly not "literature", but still.

janeite · 09/06/2009 22:40

Would rather look at MM with stomach cramp than bleedin' puddin' face Firth!!!

othersideofthefence · 09/06/2009 22:43

Jay Gatsby
Dick Diver (at the beginning of Tender is The Night)
Patrick Pennington (KM Peyton)
Peter Marlow (Antonia Forest)
Rhett Butler

Hassled · 09/06/2009 22:45

87th Precinct.

And yes to Dick Diver - how could I have forgotten him?

fridascruffs · 09/06/2009 22:50

Julian Audley, Lord Worth (GH)
Also Damerel, a bit (Venetia)
Jack Aubrey (Master & Commander & the rest of the series). Though he's quite a good mate too. I often think of him when the wind's in the right quarter for sailing out of port.

Pacita · 09/06/2009 22:52

Sam Spade

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