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Tigerlily
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Dear Reader...
...Who’s the first character in a book you fell in love with?
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I honestly don't know....although the question reminds me of an old friend at college who had a thing for Keats and his poetry. She raved on how much she wanted to marry him, and we reminded her he was ..ahem..dead. 
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| Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 3:55 pm Post subject: |
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Dare I say George from the famous five  I know she was a girl but I thought she was great, much better than prim Anne. |
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MissMuppet
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I'm not sure about this, maybe the BFG!  |
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oooh have to say Aragorn in Lotrs and Angel Clare in Tess.
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| Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 5:58 pm Post subject: |
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Someone asked me this question a year ago and I really struggled to come up with an answer. Perhaps I don't suspend my disbelief enough to really fall in love with characters.
In the end though I decided that the one character I've always been a little in love with is Feste in Twelfth Night. Something about the wordplay and soppy songs - and him being always the outsider.
Isn't Angel Clare a bit gutless - not to mention hypocritical? Harp-playing notwithstanding... |
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| Quote: | | Isn't Angel Clare a bit gutless - not to mention hypocritical? |
Do you know Snowflake, I don't remember  I remember loving the book and I probably fell in love with the name Angel Clare more than the character  
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I think mine might have been Aslan from 'The Lion, the Witch and the Wardobe'
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| Quote: | | I think mine might have been Aslan from 'The Lion, the Witch and the Wardobe' |
Oh yes! I adored him. That was my fave book when I was a girl.
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Dear Reader...
...Whose next book are you impatiently waiting for?
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I can only think of Harry Potter 7 out on my birthday 7/7/07 
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Can I have 2?
The Lollipop Shoes by Joanne Harris
Daughters of Fire by Barbara Erskine |
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I was thinking Sophie Kinsella 'Shopaholic and Baby' but thats out now. I also get really impatient waiting for Eoin Colfers Artemis Fowl books to come out in paperback cos I wont buy them in hardback.
Maybe I should have just said Harry Potter too cos they're the only books I ever buy in hardback. |
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harry Potter for me too and I wish Phillipa gregory would bring another Tudor Novel out!!!!
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Dear Reader...
...Whose recommendation do you trust?
I trust loads...the people who recommended books in the 1001 Books list; prize winning fiction; fellow book group members; my sister; R&J's book club; me!
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| I trust any book fan and reviews, but they don't always work out. My daughter reads a lot and we swap books but we don't always like the books the other has recommended. When I was having an 'op' a couple of years ago a nurse recommended The Star of the Sea which I loved but would never have pick up because of the cover. So I now think any recommendation is worth checking out. |
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Paullina Simons. I love her books, and I'm really hoping that she will write a sequel to The Girl In Times Square.
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I trust the R&J choices although not all of theirs have been my cup of tea I think they have uncovered some real gems. I also trust my friends and my RISI buddies, if a book is talked about a lot on the RISI boards then its usually worth reading.
I also have trusted the Big Read (and have read some that I would have never picked up had it not been for that survey) and now the 1001.... |
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Yeah, I think if lots of people are talking about a particular book it makes me want to read it.
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