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

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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?

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 - 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)

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

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)

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

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

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.

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

Laurie Lee

Pleeeeeeease?

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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

at Satan!!!

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

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.

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

I definitely claimed Roland first.