“When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.” ― Ernest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon
They either left my heart broken
or their stories let my soul be taken
or they’re just handsome to be forgotten!
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THE HANDSOME
1. Gale of The Hunger Games Series by Suzanne Collins
The Who: Katniss Everdeen’s best friend and hunting partner and the story’s third wheel! XD
2. Four of Divergent Series by Veronica Roth
The Who: Tobias Eaton, more prominently known as Four, is a Dauntless and the love interest of Tris Prior.
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THE INSPIRING
3. Morrie Schwartz Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
The Who: Morrie Schwartz, 78-year-old sociology professor dying from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), is Mitch Albom’s former teacher. The book has been Albom’s memoir for his inspiring professor.
4. Music/Narrator of The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto by Mitch Albom
The Who: Music is the storyteller of the epic story of Frankie Presto—the greatest guitar player who ever lived—and the six lives he changed with his six magical blue strings.
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THE QUIRKY yet HEARTFELT
5. Don Tillman of The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
The Who: Don Tillman, professor of genetics, has never been on a second date. He is a man who can count all his friends on the fingers of one hand, whose lifelong difficulty with social rituals has convinced him that he is simply not wired for romance.
6. Eleanor and Park of Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
The Who: Eleanor… Red hair, wrong clothes. Standing behind him until he turns his head. Lying beside him until he wakes up. Making everyone else seem drabber and flatter and never good enough…Eleanor.
Park… He knows she’ll love a song before he plays it for her. He laughs at her jokes before she ever gets to the punch line. There’s a place on his chest, just below his throat, that makes her want to keep promises…Park.
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THE AMAZINGLY INSANE
7. Amy of Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
The Who: Wife of Nick for five years and inspiration to Amazing Amy children’s book., Amy possess a creepily clever mind that can control everyone.
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THE TEARJERKERS
8. Garret of Message in a Bottle Nicholas Sparks
The Who: He writes heartbreaking love letters to express his undying love for his deceased wife. Through his message in a bottle, he was discovered by Theresa.
9. Mia of If I Stay by Gayle Forman
The Who: Mia is a gifted cellist from Oregon, from a family of punkists. She is Adam Wilde’s girlfriend from highschool, where he was pretty popular and she was the geek.After the car crash which killed her family, she had to choose whether she wants to leave or to stay.
10. Violet and Finch of All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
The Who: Theodore Finch is fascinated by death, and he constantly thinks of ways he might kill himself. But each time, something good, no matter how small, stops him.
Violet Markey lives for the future, counting the days until graduation, when she can escape her Indiana town and her aching grief in the wake of her sister’s recent death.
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Character descriptions: credit: Goodreads
In response to The Broke and the Bookish‘s Top Ten Tuesday today:
March 8: Ten Characters Everyone Loves But I Just Don’t Get or Ten Characters I LOVE But Others Seem To Dislike
P.S.
Who are the characters you cannot forget?
Why?
Let’s talk!
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Winnie the pooh , he is just amazing and my all time fav. Since childhood
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Aww! He is really cute! 😀
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Aw. I really like the idea of this post! There are so many memorable characters ❤ Great list!
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Oh thank you, Chrissi. I am having a hard time thinking of Character I don’t get and character i love to hate so I come up with this one. 🙂
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I’m big fans of Liam Hemsworth and especially Four played by the gorgeose Theo James. Both sets of books they are from are awesome as well. Tuesday’s with Morrie, so sad. Hopefully, we can find a cure for ALS soon. It’s a horrible way to go. Great post!
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OH yeah. Those two are just gorgeous! 😀
That is true, Mandi! But Morrie has left a lot of wise words. 🙂 Told by Mitch Albom. 🙂
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I really liked the categories you put the characters in! Some of them I definitely get! Some of my most precious characters are Mark Watney from The Martian, Sevro from Red Rising and Mori from Lock & Mori.
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Oooh! I haven’t read those books yet but I believe they are all great reads. 🙂
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Oh and characters I can’t forget Kstniss on the Hunger games with Gale, Four and Triss, Christian and Ana, The Family from the Poisonwood Bible, James Bond, Jack Sparrow, etc. Thanks
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Oooh! You also enjoy Hunger Games and Divergent. 🙂 Thank you for sharing, Mandi!
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I really like that you added descriptors to the characters. 😀
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Thank you for reading and commenting! 😀
I appreciate that you appreciate my effort. 😀
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Great list! I also liked Four but I thought he deserved better than Tris. I haven’t read the last book yet. I heard it’s terrible. 😉
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Oh the first book is great. The premise is awesome. But the second and then the third are both disappointing. -_-
And yeah, I am not a fan of Tris, too!
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Yeah I was disappointed by the second book too, so much so that I gave up on the series. She was cool in the first book and then in the second one she just got weird. YA sequels,don’t live up to the first book. This isn’t the only series to suffer that.
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Yes. That is so true. That is why I quit reading YA dystopia series. The first book are always great, then the story and the character deteriorates in the sequels.
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I quit reading them too 🙂
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Oh! Yeah. Your Shayari stories are way better than those. 😉
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Thank you 🙂 your comment made me smile 🙂
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I am more than glad to make you smile. ❤
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🙂 you always do!
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Awww.
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😀
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❤
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Great list! There are several of these I can’t forget, chiefly being Four 🙂 Yum!
My TTT.
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HA! Four do have an awesome fan base, I guess? 😀
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What a lovely list! Definitely a yes to Four – great in the book and the film.
Lynn 😀
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YEAH! Four is just.. 😀
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Agree about Gale. On my TTT I’m on record as saying Katniss should’ve chosen him. I’m not familiar with If I Stay, but it sounds interesting … but then I’m a geeky oboist who can identify with cellists.
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Oh finally found a Team GALE! 😀 Haha. Sadly, Peeta won! 😀
Oh.. an oboist.. interesting. 🙂
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I should say Christopher Robin, since I was named for him. But I find myself more often quoting Winnie the Pooh. The first character who came to mind right away on reading your question is Gideon Oliver, an anthropologist teaching in the state of Washington. He’s somewhat urbane but also eccentric. He doesn’t like the sight of corpses (the bones he likes are old and clean) but is pressed to help the police with murder investigations. He seems real to me. He’s the protagonist in several mystery novels by Aaron Elkins. My sister and I enjoy his stories immensely. I like your choices and, more so, the reasons why you like the characters.
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Ooooh! Winnie the Pooh! It is fascinating to know who you are named after! 😀 😀 😀
I am now interested to know more about Gideon Oliver!
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I know Message in a Bottle and Tuesday’s with Morrie but not the other ones. Another great list, my friend!
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Oh thank you, Thomas!! I am looking for a Donna Morrissey book but I can’t find one. -_-
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You are welcome, Rosema 🙂 Here’s a link to Morrissey’s work 🙂 🙂
http://penguinrandomhouse.ca/authors/231980/donna-morrissey
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Bookmarked!
And I read she studied in Newfoundland, Canada. That is your home city right? 🙂
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That’s great! It’s my province. She probably studied in St. John’s but was from a small town called Beaches, on Newfoundland’s west coast. I live several hours away from there. She creates the most vivid characters – you will love her writing! 🙂
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Ohhh. Interesting. 🙂
Yay! You make me more excited to read her works. 🙂
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🙂
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😉
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Well-written; I want to read all these now! Gail at Making Life An Art
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Wow! Thank you Gail! 🙂 I hope you will love them too!:)
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