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Benedict Arnold

Who was your favourite male character from any book you've read?

What can you tell us about him? Why did you like him? 

Posted - March 6, 2017
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    Ponyboy from the book The Outsiders. Thats the only book that I'v read in my entire life and I only read it because our 7th grade teacher made us . Cheers! 
      March 6, 2017 5:12 PM MST
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  • That got a laugh. I'm gonna have to work on you, Nanoose. :)
      March 6, 2017 6:10 PM MST
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  • He sure knows how to kick butt. 
      March 6, 2017 6:11 PM MST
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    John the Savage from Brave New World.  I could so empathize with him.

      March 6, 2017 5:20 PM MST
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  • I don't remember him. It must 50 years since I read the book. I do remember enjoying it. 
      March 6, 2017 6:12 PM MST
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  • 7792
    Barry Allen




    Wally West



    They both are speedsters in the DC rebirth Universe.
      March 6, 2017 5:27 PM MST
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  • I haven't run across those. Thanks, Zack. 
      March 6, 2017 6:13 PM MST
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  • Probably Mitch Rapp from the Vince Flynn series. Bad boy C.I.A. operative. Bucked the rules and always got results. Terrorists everywhere are afraid of him.
      March 6, 2017 5:44 PM MST
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  • I know that name but don't recall when I read about him. I'll make a note to chase him up at the library. Thanks for the recommendation. 
      March 6, 2017 5:55 PM MST
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  • There's a whole series of them but the great Author Vince Flynn passed away some years back. Great stories!
      March 6, 2017 5:58 PM MST
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  • I generally oppose making such commitments so I have selected a few.

    Reepa Gud Wan - "The Zen of Farting" Funny and insightful guy.

    Beowulf - Loyal and brave.

    MacDuff - Fought tyranny. 
      March 6, 2017 6:22 PM MST
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  • Thanks, Whisgle. 
      March 6, 2017 9:22 PM MST
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  • I know only the last two, but those two are favourites of mine also.
      March 6, 2017 9:51 PM MST
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  • Dozy, maybe I am in kinda dark mood today, the male favourites coming to mind are 

    1. Rubashov, in Arthur Koestler's 1940 classic DARKNESS AT NOON - here is a lift from Goodreads:
    "Almost unbearably vivid in its depiction of one man's solitary agony, it asks questions about ends and means that have relevance not only for the past but for the perilous present. "

    2. Raskolnikov, Dostoyevsky's CRIME AND PUNISHMENT. I read it/lived it age 14, took me weeks to recover my balance...don't give that book to a 14-year-old!
    Finally at age 69 I ventured into another book by Dostoyevsky, THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD, and the mellowing of (my) age definitely helped!
      March 6, 2017 9:58 PM MST
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  • It's a bit dark, Virginia. I can't remember the last time I read Koestler. I think it was a book called The Roots of Coincidence and I was 10 years older than you when I read Crime and Punishment. (We may have been reading it at the same time.) And, yeah, it was very heavy going.
      March 7, 2017 3:28 AM MST
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    Hello D:

    Jason Bourne..  Cause he's the baddest ass on the planet..

    excon
      March 7, 2017 5:35 AM MST
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  • He's certainly very popular. Even so, he's lucky he wasn't around in Willie Garvin's day.
      March 7, 2017 1:40 PM MST
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  • Roland Deschain from Stephen King's Dark Tower series
    Harry Dresdin from the Dresdin Files series
    Professor Snape from the Harry Potter series
    Michael Talbot from the Zombie Fallout series
      March 7, 2017 5:43 AM MST
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  • Sounds like a powerful collection, Karen. :)
      March 7, 2017 1:41 PM MST
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  • I had to stop there because there are so many on my list. :)
    Those are just the top 4.
      March 8, 2017 4:48 AM MST
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