Stolen from the Fiction Books forum: If you could be any fictional character from a book,

[Flaxbee]

who or what would you be? :shrug:

You can choose up to 3 - maybe someone living in a different time, someone from the present, someone magical?

I have to think about it for a bit. Interested in everyone's replies. :hi:

[Flaxbee]

1. so, I'm going to kick this to see if it gets any interest on Saturday

I know one character I'd like to be is Harriet Vane from Dorothy Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries.

[Brother Buzz]

2. Travis McGee

"You may charge me, dear people, with being a Card-Carrying American. I find these little tickets to perpetual consumption distasteful. I do not like to see my name on them, deeply embossed into everlasting plastic. They make me feel as if I should wear a leather collar and hang them all thereon. When there is a mistake in the billing on any of them, if you persist, you can fight your way past the icy and patronizing indifference of the electronic computers and reach a semi-human who can straighten things out. It only takes a year or so.

Yet in our times the thick wad of credit cards is a cachet of respectability, something more useful to me than any questionable convenience. When a cop lays upon you the white eye, and you stand there hunting for a driver's license as identification, and he watches you fumble through AmEx, Diners, Carte Blanche, Air Travel, Sheraton, Shell, Gulf, Phillips, Standard, Avis, and Texaco before you find it, he is reassured. You may have thirty-seven cents and dirt shirt, but you are completely on record and in good standing with the Establishment. If all you have is the license and bale of vulgar cash money, it piques his curiosity. Who is the bum who can't get credit cards like honest people?"

•••••

"I get the feeling that this is the last time in history when the offbeats like me will have a chance to live free in the nooks and crannies of the huge and rigid structure of an increasingly codified society. Fifty years from now I would be hunted down in the street. They would drill little holes in my skull and make me sensible and reliable and adjusted."

•••••

"It's a funny thing about television and cigarettes. Hardly anybody I know anymore smokes cigarettes or watches the tube. One stunts the body and one stunts the mind."

[NightWatcher]

3. George Hayduke...and hey, if you can dream it, you can do it

[pscot]

4. Captain Carrot of the Ankh-Morpork watch

He's a 6'6" dwarf, the heriditary king of Ankh-Morpork and his girl friend is a tall, blond werwolf.

[Flaxbee]

5. have absolutely no clue who you're talking about, but sure sounds interesting!

:hi:

[pscot]

8. Terry Pratchett

The disk world novels. There are 28 of them. Highly recommended.

[EndersDame]

9. I am /reading Guards! Guards!

[pscot]

15. All the little angels rise up, rise up

All the little angels rise up high. I think that's my favorite.

[Mojambo]

6. God. n/t

[Flaxbee]

7. not a bad suggestion!

:)

[kentauros]

10. Cari the Djinni

Yeah, I know, you've never heard of her. Probably because I haven't published that book yet ;)

[Flaxbee]

12. I noticed in an earlier thread you said you were writing a book...

I hope you finish it so I can read it!

[kentauros]

13. I hope I finish it, too

;)

What kind of aggravates me about myself, is that I keep coming up with great plots and ideas for stories way down the line, and I still haven't finished the first one!

That's okay, though, because it's forcing me to get off my ass and do the research I need to get on with (like on NDE's) so I have a better handle on fictionalizing that kind of thing.

[Ikonoklast]

11. Woodrow Wilson Smith, aka Lazarus Long.

The Time Traveller, from "The Time Machine".

Sherlock Holmes. I was in awe of his abilities of perception.

[Rabrrrrrr]

14. Pippi Longstocking, Emperor Palpatine, or Gerald Tarrant