Characters from books you HATE (that you're not supposed to!)

[Shiningdew]

I have just finished The House I Grew Up In (Lisa Jewell) and I liked it but I couldn't stand Meg, the oldest daughter.

I got the feeling she'd really, really annoy me if I knew her Smug, judgemental, bossy and mumsy.

I also didn't like Jill, of the Ruby Ferguson pony books, as a kid. She was always so intolerant of anyone nervy round horses!

Who are yours? I'm sure I have more ...

[Shiningdew]

Yeah, Becky Bloomwood from the shopaholic series

I do love a bit of Sophie Kinsella, mind. It's like an anti depressant. I haven't read one for a while - went through a stage where I barely read anything else! They really do make me laugh out loud

Jodi Piccoult has a lot of frigging annoying characters.

[Sadik]

I like Fanny Price . The one who drives me round the bend (well, apart from Emma) is Catherine Morland. I just want to give her a good shake and tell her to get her shit together.

[ReluctantCamper]

Oh yeah, the shopaholic. self sabotaging twat. Didn't make it to the end of the first book.

Gwen , in the second book, doesn't Bridget Jones take a package through customs for someone else that later proves to contain drugs (it's been a while since I read it)? Not the actions of the sharpest tool in the box.

[FairNotFit]

Lily Dale from Trollope's Barsetshire series. Irritating woman.

[FairNotFit]

Oh, and Jo Bettany/Maynard in the later Chalet School books. Smug busybody.

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"given that she [Bridget Jones] barely managed to function as an adult"

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Aghhh

"given that she [Bridget Jones] barely managed to function as an adult"**

I read one chapter of the second book, she was ignoring the advice of her friends in happy relationships and taking the stupid stupid advice of long time single twits

[NotCitrus]

Bridget Jones. Whingey bore.

David Copperfield. Drip. Though his wife was worse but she was only in the book so she could die 'romantically', so doesn't count.

[Lowdoorinthewall]

Mum, Dad and Peter in Horrid Henry. God- no wonder Henry is horrid. I'm right there with him.

[wanderings]

Yes Yes FairNotFit, I can't stand Joey Bettany either because she's so damn perfect! I found the book about her, Phoebe and the cello tedious beyond belief.

Also I can't stand Hermione Granger, another "perfect" character. She spends so much time lecturing everybody about following school rules and ethics (house-elves - strewth!), yet when she breaks rules herself, or slaps Malfoy, she does it with no shame at all, and she's often made out to be a hero.

As for Dumbledore, we do learn at the very end he wasn't such a fantastic character.

[MamaMary]

Every single character in Ian McEwan's Sweet Tooth.

[SerafinaScoresby]

Darrell Rivers. Fucking goody goody.

[Robertaquimby]

The Robin from the Chalet School, revoltingly angelic child.

The main character from Night Waking. If you want to do your academic research, move back to Oxford and put your kids in nursery. Don't move to an uninhabited Scottish island with a baby and a toddler and whine about it.

[SerafinaScoresby]

Agree about heathcliff and Cathy, Harry Potter, and Jane eyre. Also adding Jon snow.

[Castrovalva]

I want to punch Jayne Eyre, but then all the Bronte works make me stabby.

I blame being dragged round that bloody parsonage ten million times when I was a kid.

[BeetlebumShesAGun]

Briony in Atonement. Precious little fool.

[SerafinaScoresby]

Bang on re Fanny Prive.

Also that Angel Clare in Tess of the Durbervilles. What a fucking cock.

[MsMargaretCarter]

Mary Poppins in the book is quite a difficult character to like. I love the books though.

Will get flamed for this, but fecking Anne Shirley is a right PITA.

[TheFallenMadonna]

When I was doing O level English, I had to write an essay titled "Jane Eyre is a cloying prig. Discuss". I agreed. My teacher made me rewrite it

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Everyone in Pride & Prejudice. Dicks, the lot of then.

[TheFallenMadonna]

And yes to the Little Women. And everyone in Wuthering Heights.

[lorelei9]

YY to the Robin in Chalet School.

As an adult, I don't finish books if I hate the character that much. I would have hated Breidget Jones if I'd read it, I'm sure. Have given up on a few books for that but can only remember Apple Tree Yard. No idea how that did so well.

Also thought Carrie Bradshaw pathetic but tbh I'm not sure what I saw in that show now. Witty dialogue, yes, but central premise of relationships? Couldn't watch it again. I think the New York factor drew me in too.

[PurpleDaisies]

I agree with lots of these.

I hated One Day because both of the characters were so irritating.

Also agree with Becky Bloomwood from the Shopaholic Series. I quite enjoyed the first few books despite wanting to dislike them (mindless fun) but as they go on she just seems more and more shallow and pathetic.

I can't stand either of the main two characters in Twilight. Bella is an indecisive wimp and Edward is a control freak.

[SerafinaScoresby]

This one might be a bit unpopular.. Scout and Jem Finch. And Calpurnia. Atticus was a bit of a preachy bastard too.

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