Mine has to be, Madame de la Rougierre, in Uncle Silas
2007-08-12 10:54:20 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Milo Minderbinder in Catch 22. The most likeable sociopath that I have come across. He, like big business and the tabloid press, tells you how good his deeds are whilst sucking dry your insides. Joseph Heller couldn't have got away with chocolate covered cotton, but Milo did. I love the way that characters can go further than their God-authors.
As a fictional character and lampoon on some of the kind of ruthless exploiters that still exist today (more so!), he is quaint and funny. And you wonder how he would cope in a different situation than that very desparate one that he found himself written into. I suppose his great appeal is that his kind, the intelligent and creative usurer (parasite) are always going to survive because of their human limitations. Where as more sophisticated individuals would go under almost straight away. It is truly fascinating how people who should simply not get on, do so, and by doing so, show us just how limited and unevolved our societies truly are. I know three real life milos. Two are friends. I wouldn't trust any of them with a bargepole.
If I were allowed a second character I'd plump for Iago in Othello. A right clever bastard. Sneaking around and bitching his head off. He would have loved having his own Yahoo 360. The amount of grief he'd cause everyone, lol! xxx
2007-08-16 14:48:21 · answer #1 · answered by The Oak 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When I was younger it was Sean Courtney in some of Wilbur Smiths novels.Then when older I read Joseph Wambaugh's darkly humorous books and I always felt affinity for the alcoholic policeman who featured in all of them. Looking back they are extremely entertaining yet highly cynical novels but drawn from his own experiences in his former career with NYPD. Once picked up I could never put them down. I must have a criminal mind Cassandra ;-)
2007-08-15 19:35:02 · answer #2 · answered by avastthere 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Moll Flanders
2007-08-17 11:15:16 · answer #3 · answered by mike&rach 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Huckleberry Finn from Mark Twain.
2007-08-12 20:06:58 · answer #4 · answered by JC 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Martin Eden by Jack London.
2007-08-14 15:41:48 · answer #5 · answered by edd 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Peter Pan
2007-08-12 18:30:00 · answer #6 · answered by Hotel 21 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Rochester...in Jane Eyre
2007-08-12 18:30:13 · answer #7 · answered by Basket-santa 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Sam Kalkin in LORD OF LIGHT by Roger Zelazny.
2007-08-12 17:58:58 · answer #8 · answered by balloon buster 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Harry Potter J.K.Rowling.
2007-08-14 19:09:45 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Odd Thomas, from the book of the same name.
2007-08-13 04:08:49 · answer #10 · answered by Bud#21 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋