Favourite Anti-heroes/heroines.

[KurriKurri]

I aways find them more memorable than traditional heroic figures. So who's is your favourite?

A couple of mine are Billy Prior in The Regeneration Trilogy (Pat Barker), and Jim Dixon from Lucky Jim.

Any more suggestions?

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Ooh, good one.

Steerpike from Gormenghast.

Becky Sharp from Vanity Fair.

Raffles

yy to Becky Sharp

Henry and Mary Crawfod - I find myself liking them more and more with each re-read. Sorry Jane Austen!!

Oh yeah the Crawfords! MUCH more fun than drippy Edmund and Fanny.

Oh yes BG - I'd forgotten the Crawford's, - Fanny and Edmund are awful po-faced drips a bit worthy.

Seeing as JKR named him as an anti-hero, I'll say Snape though I believe he is more so the hero of the HP series, rather than Harry, whom I find rather despicable.

No, I loathe Henry Crawford. He's in my worst ever villain category because he's so plausible.

Got to be Scarlett O'Hara.

Ooh I have just started reading Gone With The Wind for the first time. Have never seen it either, so don't give anything away about why I should love/hate her!

Tom Ripley

Raskolnikov Crime & Punishment

Oh yes Roseability, Raskolnikov is the ultimate isn't he? There's that enjoyable sense of guilt that goes with the fact that you are rooting for someone who has done something so terrible.

Am currently reading GWTW for the first time (knew nothing at all about it other than 'frankly my dear'). Scarlett O Hara is boring the pants off me atm.