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Imagine yourself as any character from any book, who would it be? I reckon I would go for Bobby Shaftoe from Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon. Funny, foolish, damn lucky.
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Whoever gets a lot of chicks in books. Definitely not Holden Caulfield.
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hahahahaha, Bobby sure did, I take it you'd be someone like , erm , erm, damn it.
The reality is in this head. Mine. I'm the projector at the planetarium, all the closed little universe visible in the circle of that stage is coming out of my mouth, eyes, and sometimes other orifices also.
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The Count of Monte Cristo.
Waddley wrote:your Highness Sir Dr. Loredoctor, PhD, Esq, the Magnificent, First of his name, Second Cousin of Dragons, White-Gold-Plate Wielder!
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ahaaaaaaaah! yes or maybe that nasty guy from Justine by the Marquis de Sade (monk fella)
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i was thinkin Merlin, even though he was not in one book.
My right hand is lightning and my left is thunder.
My eyes are flame.
My heart is ashes.
Look upon me and tremble.
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Joshua Calvert - Night's Dawn Trilogy, horny bastard that gets lots of women, has lots of fun, space pirate, womanizer, archeologist, politician, fighter, mercenary all in one. A kick ass guy. Cheers.
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I always identified with Larry Underwood from Stephen King's The Stand.
"I use my gun whenever kindness fails"



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edinburghemma wrote:ahaaaaaaaah! yes or maybe that nasty guy from Justine by the Marquis de Sade (monk fella)
Hmmm. haven't read that one.
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Lyra from the His Dark Materials trilogy.
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Elijah Bailey from The Naked Sun, Caves of Steel, and Robots of Dawn.
Dandelion don't tell no lies
Dandelion will make you wise
Tell me if she laughs or cries
Blow away dandelion

I'm afraid there's no denying
I'm just a dandelion
a fate I don't deserve.

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:? Would it surprize anybody that mine would be, er, Danlo from the Requiem for Homo Sapiens trilogy? (or the 3 books that follow Neverness) :P
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Harold Shea of L. Sprague DeCamp & Fletcher Pratt's The Compleat Enchanter
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Pol, son of Rohan in the Dragon Star Trilogy!!!


Or perhaps Haplo in the Death Gate Cycle....
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Ooooh, I reckon Jemmy Bloocher. He could cook a mean omelette, shoot accurately at 200 metres, and have wanton relations ad infinitum.
I just might die with a smile on my face after all.
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Jernau Gurgeh from Iain M. Banks' Player of Games. I'm a dedicated player of all kinds of games, and the Culture sounds like a great place to live. And you know what they say about Culture men...
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Ahh, great one.
I just might die with a smile on my face after all.
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Jubal Harshaw - Heinlien - Stranger in a Strange Land(& others I'm led to believe)
Grokking comes when waiting is
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The Leper Fairy wrote:Lyra from the His Dark Materials trilogy.
I was gunna say that! :P 8)
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Rhion the Brown from Barbara Hambly's Rainbow Abyss
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