Wednesday, January 03, 2007

5 most annoying main characters in fiction

We'll call this the "smack 'em up 'longside the head" category.

1) Madame Bovery. At one point her mother-in-law said something like "she needs to have kids and stop thinking about herself." And, ya know, her mil was right!
Madame Bovery - Gustave Flaubert

2) Claudia Parr. She and her husband get in a fight. He tells her, "Fuck you." She tells him "Fuck you." She packs, gets a taxi, goes to live at a friends and gets a lawyer. Then she spends the rest of the book whining about why her husband left her.
Baby Proof - Emily Giffin

3) Tiny Tim. Need I say more?
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

4) Ayla from Clan of the Cave Bears. She doesn't get really annoying until the third book. She and her non-monogamous, but strangely faithful, partner invent everything that's ever been created. From needles and thread to the domestication of animals. I think they invent the internet in the sixth book. Enough already.
The Mammoth Hunters - Jean Auel

5) Tatiana. She's so dumb you want to smack her. Really, really hard.
Now and Forever - Elizabeth Doyle

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