If you could meet any literary character, who would you choose?

Sherlock Holmes

Laura Ingalls Wilder

The Runaway Bunny.

The Little Women

Patrick Bateman (American Psycho).

Celie from 'The Color Purple'.

Celie from 'The Color Purple'.

Ford Prefect--now there's a frood who really knows where his towel is.

Don Gately from Infinite Jest.

Biggles of course

*shrugs*

Lucius Malfoy
Viktor Frankenstrin
Lestat

Good choice. How do you think he would be imagining that he is killing you?
I always thought that he'd want to strangle me.

Allanon, from the Shannara series. He is so cool, so wise, knows everything about anything.

He puts something in my drink and then tortues me to death. Very slowly, I presume.

That was pretty obvious!

**SHRUGS**

Captain Nemo, Hawkeye, Jack the Ripper, others

Gandolf

Can't decide

No one springs to mind. I don't think that meeting fictional characters has ever been one of my ambitions.

Alex from A Clockwork Orange

I'd like to meet Ford too!

Krishna.

Duddy Kravitz

Holmes, Einstein, Dr. Manhattan, V, Promethea, Elijah Snow, Gandalf, Prospero

Travis McGee

Does he know a lot about 12-step programs as well?

Harry Potter.

Probably! If there was one in Shannara's history, ever, he would know!

Baralis.
Can't rembmer what book he was in or who wrote it but he was a fantastic character. Unfortunately he was the bad guy so of course he's killed at the end. If I ever write a book my bad guy is going to be the one who comes out on top.

Cat in the Hat

Harry Potter! Then we could wreak havoc on people with spells, and I wouldn't tell on him for using magic in a muggle environment.

Oh,so many,so many...
I would date Amory Blaine even if he's so full of himself.
I would fancy Julien Sorel,even if he's an hypocrite until the very end.
I would respect Athos very much even if he hates women.
I would have a great fun with Jo March and talk about art with Amy March.
Me and Hamlet will just stare at the wall in depression.
Etienne Lantier,young socialist and miner,I would dine with him and flirt.
Morgana,how she is portrayed in Marion Zimmer Bradley books would make a great best friend...

Okay I stop now,or I'll run out of virtual ink.

How did I *know* this survey was yours?

It's slyly insightful, aesthetic and deeply personal

It's related to writing,full of fantasy,idealism and romantic hope.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Also

Am I that transparent?

No,I'm just the queen of empathy and good to figure out how people is.

Queen of empathy perhaps, but definitely of compliments

The Cat in the Hat

Alex from a Clockwork Orange. It's one of my favorite movies.

Hey, we have the same answer.

The book is fabulous too. If you haven't read it, I really would advise you to. It's amazing!

Not only have I read the book, but I've seen the movie many times. That's where I took my user name from.

But would you actually want to meet him? He'd be near the bottom of my list (especially pre-treatment), down there with Captain Hook and Darth Vader.

I don't know why exactly, but Alex has a certain charm when he wasn't getting all ultra-violent.

John the Savage, from Brave New World...

articulate, passionate....and totally sexy (in my mind anyway)

I certainly would. ESPECIALLY pre treatment. To me, he represents the real natural human ~Alpha~ male.
Society nowadays needs us to be clockwork/mechanical animals for things to run smoothly. Like romkey said recently in the survey about finding out you are a robot, to some extent we all are robots. Embracing our real natural human natures is not encouraged. From the time we are small we are taught that our urges to bite others and our belief that everything is "Mine!" and our refusal to do things the grown ups want us to do, "NO!", is literally punished out of us.

I do not agree that it is ok for us to behave the way Alex and his droogs behaved. I am just fascinated and astounded by humans, be they book characters or real life folk, who buck the "new norm" and embrace their true animal nature.

oh and yeah..violence secretly turns me on...

Atreyu from the Neverending Story

I was a little disturbed to find myself getting aroused during that sex scene. I don't have a lot of respect for people who won't watch the movie because of that scene, though. I think it was a very brave thing to put on film and it strengthens the viewer to see it, and think about it. But I still wouldn't want to meet Alex.
I read the book recently and I didn't think it was that good.

I have actually had people online accuse me of being insensitive to the victims of violent crimes because I enjoy that movie. I also had a woman in a chatroom comment once that I must have never in my entire life have ever experienced violence or suffered at the hands of someone violent if I enjoy watching that kind of film.

I agree with your statement about strengthening the viewer. When I met Sue she was easily disturbed by violent scenes and even the sound of someone on screen suffering would send her off hiding in another room. We talked at length about this and she started "trying" to understand what I got out of watching disturbing images. She tried hard and actually "got it". So many people have a knee jerk reaction and just don't want to go there. I found her willingness to expand herself refreshing.

Interesting and, I think, good for her. I do sometimes wonder whether I'm desensitizing myself, though. I believe it is possible. But when I see a bad thing happen in real life, I am still moved by it, so I guess I believe I'm able to distinguish between real suffering and unreal suffering. I hope.

Mmn, Paul Bunyan