Who is your favorite fictional character?

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Worsel is really cool. That pic doesn’t do him justice. Multiple eye stalks, pythonish tail. Strong. Comes from Velantia.
 
I need to stop watching TV and playing on CAF before I can settle down and read a book. Maybe I ought to do that for awhile. hmmmmm It would take awhile for my brain just to adjust to the lower level stimuli.
 
I of course, recommend the Lensman series. Start with either Triplanetary, or First Lensman. Then Galactic Patrol, Gray Lensman, Second Stage Lensman, Children of the Lens.

You’ll meet me in Children of the Lens.
 
Ohhh? Parsnips from Toledo?? Awesome!!!

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I think I remember now…

let’s see…

Canthrips from Olenole
 
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The great and good Aslan.
 
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The Thin Man (and his wife). Not sure if these cinema characters were based on a novel or not. But they are fictional.
 
Well, we know her work was heavily fictionalization of what happened and only loosely based on reality. So it’s justified to say that the person in the book is fiction.
 
Hero: Galahad Threepwood, usually known as Uncle Gally, a prominent character in the Blandings Castle series of comic novels and short stories by P.G. Wodehouse. One of these novels, Pigs Have Wings, is on my personal list as one of the outstanding works of fiction in the English language.

Villain: Dickens is the great master of villainy, and his record-breaking achievement in this field is Barnaby Rudge, with no fewer than six villains, each of them portrayed as a unique individual, wholly different from all the others: Gashford (loosely based on the historical Lord George Gordon), Hugh, old Rudge (Barnaby’s father), Ned Dennis (the cowardly hangman), Sir John Chester, and – last but not least – the apprentice Simon Tappertit, the only one of the six left alive at the end of the book.
 
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Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird.
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My spouse used to tell the story of not reading the book, but using Cliff notes to write the report. Would have done ok except dear spouse got the sex of the main character wrong.
 
Oh that is hilarious!

I hope he has since read the book, but the movie is very well done too. Not reading the “new” book. Ever. Atticus Finch would never be a racist.
 
Hi Xanthippe,

Actually, her daughter Rose edited her stories for her, so that they would be more geared for children.

It was thought that as they were written, they would have been too realistic in terms of the hard realities of pioneer life at the times that Laura lived them, so in a way, you could say that they were “toned down a bit” so that children could read them.

I don’t want to go off-topic here, but I had the chance to visit the reproduction of her home site/cabin on the site where she was actually born, up here in Pepin, Wisconsin. It’s a really beautiful area.

There is a museum in the area too, with different items from the different home sites where Laura and her family lived over the years. It’s a fun place to visit.
 
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Hi Xanthippe,

Actually, her daughter Rose edited her stories for her, so that they would be more geared for children.

It was thought that as they were written, they would have been too realistic in terms of the hard realities of pioneer life at the times that Laura lived them, so in a way, you could say that they were “toned down a bit” so that children could read them.

I don’t want to go off-topic here, but I had the chance to visit the reproduction of her home site/cabin on the site where she was actually born, up here in Pepin, Wisconsin. It’s a really beautiful area.

There is a museum in the area too, with different items from the different home sites where Laura and her family lived over the years. It’s a fun place to visit.
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I didn’t want to put all the details, but yes, they were heavily edited, according to Rose both by her mother and herself and then also by editors There are also many things that were edited in to make things easier for children.

Editors also had their hands in things, re-writing history for the sake of clarity. For instance, a virus and a stroke is likely what Mary go blind. Doctors today pretty much agree it wasn’t scarlet fever.

My point is not that Laura wasn’t a real person, but the character portrayed in the novels is so heavily edited from what was the gruesome reality that it’s nearly a different person. We know that Ma tended to be very strict, demanding and racist and Pa was often a rather irresonsible dreamer who didn’t “look before he lept.” In the books these traits rarley seep into the content. Laura’s experiances and outlooks, therefore, are also changed quite a bit. It would be different, say, then a book about Abraham Lincoln.
 
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