The other day we looked at favorite female characters, and my Goodreads list grew by leaps and bounds from your comments. Hopefully, you all got some good suggestions from people posting here as well. Now it’s time for male characters. And not real life people that you think are characters. Here are three of my favorites.
1. Definitely Jon Snow from A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin. Even from his petulance at the beginning, which obviously comes from growing up as a bastard with a “stepmother” who hates him (and who can really blame her when she sees her husband’s infidelity every time she looks at him), I adored him. Then as he grew to a leader of all and defender of his family, he became the consummate hero. 
My personal copy of The Hobbit
2) Frodo, the bumbling, adventurous hero from the shire in The Hobbit by Tolkien is a favorite character of mine. The shire is awesome and I want to live there. Frodo is everything I’m not. I don’t even like to go outdoors in the dark. Adventures? No thank you. But I so admire those that have them.
3) Harry Bosch from the Michael Connelly series. I love detective novels and if you like reading about a tortured soul who gets the job done, Harry Bosch is the detective for you. From the first Harry Bosch novel The Black Echo, I have been drawn to this character. If you like series and like finding interesting characters, this series is perfect. I have never watched the movies or tv show (I don’t even know which it is) because I don’t want to ruin how I imagine him to be and act. There are very few novels where I have seen the movie and thought it was as good as the book.
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Okay. Your turn.
saneteachers 
I’m obsessed with Goodreads. I’m currently reading Water for Elephants so at this point in time, Jacob Jankowski is my favorite.
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Thanks. I feel like the only adult who has never read that novel. 😃
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You should! It’s pretty amazing so far!
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I LOVE this book! I think I’ve read it three or maybe even four times.
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Haha I can already tell it’s going to be one of my favorites!
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My favorite character (other than me) is Ish from the book “Earth Abides” by George R. Stewart.
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Lol. That book is new to me. Why do you like him?
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“Earth Abides” main character Ish is a flawed, yet intelligent man thrust into a post apocalyptic world. Despite his intelligence, strength, and hopes, he is unable to fully achieve his goals. Still, the story is hopeful and Ish does find the things that are really important – family, love…
As for Andrew, that conversation is far too long for a simple comment.
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You’ll have to write an autobiography. You already have a fan base. I’ll add Earth Abides to my list. Sounds interesting. Thanks, Andrew 🙂
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Hehe, I’m picking Andrew for my favorite too, because his comment made me laugh out loud. 🙂
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🙂
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Bingo.
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Sherlock Holmes retains the crown for me. The queue after that is huge, containing likes of Hamlet, Paul Morel (Sons and Lovers), Robert Jordan (For Whom the Bell Tolls), Yuri Zhivago (Doctor Zhivago), Rabbit Angstrom (Rabbit series of Updike), Toru Okada (Wind-up Bird Chronicle), John Rebus (Ian Rankin), Harry Seldom (Isaac Asimov)…
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Oh I can’t believe I didn’t immediately think of Sherlock Holmes!
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Sorry about that last one –it’s Harry Seldon. (Damn autocorrect!)
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Hugh Jackman in anything, but if I had to list favourite male characters:
Shane Schofield aka Scarecrow in Matthew Reilly books,
John Travolta’s Angel Michael (very tongue in cheek)
Jointly Aaron Eckhart and Gerard Butler in Olympus has Fallen and London has Fallen for their great one liners.
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I don’t think I know the Matthew Reilly books.
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He wrote Ice Station, and the stories are fast paced. Unlike Lee Child who only writes about one character (and Tom Cruise killed off that character for me), Matthew Reilly has written several books with different leading characters. I’ve enjoyed them all.
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I’ll check them out, thanks. That’s a good example of why I won t watch movie based on a book I like.
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I’m with you on Harry Bosch 🙂
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Great minds…..like the same detectives.
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I am a big fan of Jack Ryan from Tom Clancy’s book. He is a CIA spy and gets stuff done but seems like a down to earth normal guy. John Clark is also a great character in those books.
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Stu Redman from Stephen King’s The Stand.
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Ahhhh……good one.
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King Arthur, the Crystal Cave series by Mary Stewart. Brian Boru, the Lion of Ireland by Morgan Llewellyn. Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly comic book series. Zorro, by Isabelle Allende. Teddy Daniels, wonderfully portrayed by Leo DiCaprio, in Shutter Island. Also, Gatsby! Ender of Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card. Harry Potter. Ragnar of the Last Kingdom.
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I came so close to putting Ender as one of the 3. Teddy Daniels is such a cool character, too. Of course King Arthur, Zorro,Ragnar, Harry Potter. So many in common….
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I forgot to add Jack Ryan, whom I adored long before Ben Affleck attempted to impersonate him on the silver screen.
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Yet another example of DON’T EVER WATCH THE MOVIE IF THERE IS A BOOK. lol
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I don’t know.
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hahahahaha
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I’m still laughing. Tim is annoyed.
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As with favorite female characters, the cast rotates with time and my moods. However, two characters occupy permanent places of my list: Charles Dicken’s David Copperfield, and David Foster Wallace’ Hal Incandenza (Infinite Jest). Hal is certainly not a role model, but for some reason, he is bizarre, realistic, and completely unforgettable.
And of course, Frodo rocks too!
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Frodo’s the man. I mean Frodo’s the hobbit lol. I love David Copperfield….I’m a huge Dicken’s fan. I don’t know Hal. 🙂
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Henry Sugar from Roald Dahl. One of my most interesting reads as a child!
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Oh I love him! Roald Dahl is such a good writer…..
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I have to say Hercule Poirot, Hamish Macbeth, Marshall Guarnaccia, and Frank Mackey, just off the top of my head. And, if you count animals, Bambi…the book version, not the Disney one!
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Definitley not the Disney one! I agree with Hercule Poirot, Hamish Macbeth but I don’t know Marshall Buarnaccia or Frank Mackey. Who are they?
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The Marshall is the main character in Magdalen Nabb’s mystery series set in Florence, Italy, which I really recommend. She was an excellent writer who, sadly, died in a riding accident a few years ago. Frank Mackey is one of the characters in Tana French’s novels, which are set in Dublin. I love her books (Frank is in “The Likeness” and “The Secret Place” but is the main character in “Faithful Place”), and all her characters are good, but he is my favorite!
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Hold on……switching over to add to my Goodreads list…..
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