Bookworm: Literary crushes

Literary crushes

What the heck, let's just open the floor to anyone who wants to confess their crushes on fictional characters. I'll add some more to my list: Jo from Little Women; Francis Cornish from What's Bred in the Bone by Robertson Davies; and (jeez, this is embarrassing) Corwin from Roger Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber.

How about you? 'Fess up!

8 Comments:

Boooooookworrrrrm, I did visit, repeatedly, but I kept getting the "Duh" post and figued you were taking a break with school being out. But now I see I have missed a lot. I'll work backwards though your posts.

Literary crushes? I'll have to think on this a while, but actually I'm developing crushes on the main characters (Johnie Constadine and Gray Stoddard) in a book I'm reading right now, The Power and the Glory.

I'll post again after I mull it over. Great question.

posted by doulicia on 12:39 PM
Well I'm pretty bad about reading romances so there are lots of heroes in those books that I've had crushes on.

As for more respectable literature, I loved Gilbert in Anne of Green Gables.

posted by Sleeping Mommy on 1:52 PM
Wow! I don't think I can top Gilbert. Good one.

posted by doulicia on 4:37 PM
I'm still thinking about this question...

posted by mrsd on 6:54 PM
Tom Bombadil in the Lord of the Rings. (I wanted to be Goldberry...)

How about non-fiction but still narrative? In that case, Oliver Sacks.

posted by lijhe on 12:34 PM
Sarah Prine and Captain Jack Elliot in These Is My Words.

posted by mrsd on 10:41 PM
I had such a crush on Adam Eddington! And (everybody laugh now) I have always thought Sherlock Holmes was really, really hot. Maybe it's that unattainable aura around him. . . . . Oh, and Erik, broken-hearted in the bowels of the opera house. . . I knew I could make him happy if he'd just give me a chance at it!

posted by Mamacita (The REAL one) on 11:20 PM
I see nobody has mentioned good old Mr Darcy, Mr Rochester or (cheesy, I know) Rhett Butler!

posted by Anonymous on 9:30 AM