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Countering the fictional crushes thread, which fictional personalities infuriate/anger/annoy you? Which villain is the most cruel?
I find this hard off the top of my head, but one character who always drives me up the wall is Scarlett O'Hara. She's so irritating.
And also, there is a character in one of Mercedes Lackey's Valdemar books called Alberich. I haven't a clue why, but unlike all the other characters in the book, he speaks like Yoda, with his words in the wrong places. It's very odd and most disruptive.
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Rand from the Wheel of Time series. I would spend hours planning what I wanted to do to that kid.
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Alberich, in Mercades Lackeys Valdamar books, is from another country. She uses his ackwardness with the language to remind readers that he is from a different culture/country than Valdamar.
I never had a problem with it, though I get your point.
I didn't like Jamie Lannister, but I may be changing my mind. Cersi is still a bitch, though...
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Umbridge. That chick in Which book was it? The one on path that was such a #@$#$@# then she goes and traces wood patterns all day even when she doesn't have to. Cid in FF8 because he's a wuss. Mrs Coulter earlier in his Dark Materials.. But she was sort of a babe. Worse were those ministers. I hated them... Oh, they were horrible. John in Prayer for Owen Meany because he's bland and dull. I wish it was in Owen's perspective.
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I am surprised nobody said Jar Jar Binks yet. In fact, I feel immature just mentioning his name here.
...And to think George Lucas said Jar Jar was the funniest character in all of the Star Wars movies. I think his 3-year old told him to say that in his interview.
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(except Perrin and Fayle, for some reason I like them)
Those braid pulling, whining, indecisive, pieces of crap characters. They all need to die. Every one of them. At the end of the books should be a big pile of corpses, and Perrin and Fayle going "Oh well, guess we can repopulate the earth".
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All the characters in "The Sun Also Rises." Daisy, Tom and Gatsby in "The Great Gatsby." Dimmesdale in "Scarlet Letter" Gwenefer in "Mists of Avalon"
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Stephen Daedalus in "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" - I really struggled to finish it, I hated him that much - and studying it for a term and a half nearly finished me off!
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Regal in the Farseer trilogy. What a big fat jerk.
Here, here for Umbridge.
I unfortunately must admit that even though Jordan's WOT books have really frustrated the hell out of me I still enjoyed them overall but... The man can not write women. They all anoy the crap out of me. the only one I liked was killed in book three or four. I can't remeber her name right now but she's the one that found Rand.
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Yes, thank you. It's been a while since reading the books. (of course, how could it be any other way with the speed Jordan writes?)
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I can't really bring myself to hate anyone in A Song of Ice and Fire. I don't like Cercei at all, but I don't hate her. I don't really like Catlyn either--I've never been able to quite forgive her for her treatment of Jon.
Catlyn's sister, whose name for some reason escapes me at the moment (I want to say Lysa, is that right?), is a character that I find particluarly disgusting, but even her I don't despise.
Petyr is another character that I particularly dislike. He's probably the character I come closest to hating in those books.
I'll agree with Syn that Mrs. Coulter in His Dark Materials is a pretty dispicable character.
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Perhaps hate was too strong a word. I actually had a good deal of trouble connecting with any character in A Game of Thrones enough to be more than lukewarm in either direction. I was given the first 3 for my birthday by someone who's a huge fan of the series, and all of my friends who've read them love them. If I had come upon it on my own, I doubt I would ever start the second one. As it is, I'm finally getting around to reading the Amber books instead. 60 pages in and I'm already in love.
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The main character in Memoirs of a Geisha for what she did to Nobu. And the that other Geisha who was such a #$#%$ to everyone. And the Aunt in Grave of the Fireflies. She was VILE.
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Really peter? You're the first person I've come across that wasn't absolutely blown away by A Song of Ice and Fire.
I recently loaned A Game of Thrones to a friend of mine who has never read any fantasy at all. I'm curious to see what he thinks of it, once he actually starts it.
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Why do you think it is that you have trouble connecting to any of Martin's characters? What is it about the books that you dislike?
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I hate Villefort, from the Count of Monte Cristo. All the other people who were mean to Edmond were...I don't know...not so incredibly base and vile. Villefort was just horrible. Oh, I hate him so much.
And Marius, from Les Mis. And Umbridge, a lot of hate for Umbridge. Also for Snape, whom I hate (weirdly enough) much more now that I've found out how mean James and Sirius were to him.
However, I adore Yuri Zhivago...that book is so wonderful...
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