in a web of glass, pinned to the edges of vision

In which you have an opportunity to guess what characters I especially like.

colubra

4/7/05 10:06 pm

Ten books.
Guess which is my favorite character in each; I'll alter the list (strike-out titles) as people get them right.

BTW: If there's anything here that you haven't read? I'd recommend doing so. It's all books I've chosen as being damned well worth reading.

1. Little, Big, John Crowley
2. A Storm of Swords, George R. R. Martin
3. The Book of the Long Sun, Gene Wolfe
4. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
5. The Club Dumas, Arturo Perez-Reverte
6. Howl's Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones
7. Twenty Years After, Alexandre Dumas
8. Imajica, Clive Barker
9. Bones of the Moon, Jonathan Carroll
10. An Alien Heat, Michael Moorcock

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• lilmissnever

  4/8/05 05:19 am (UTC)

  

  
  The answer to #4 is obviously Steerpike.

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  • colubra

    4/8/05 05:26 am (UTC)

    

    Actually, nope. ;)

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• celeloriel

  4/8/05 05:22 am (UTC)

  

  1. Smokey.
  6. Calcifer.
  
  No puns intended. I'll have to think about the rest of them: these were wild guesses.

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  • colubra

    4/8/05 05:27 am (UTC)

    

    ...impressive wild guesses.

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• daft

  4/8/05 05:22 am (UTC)

  

  Since someone already guessed mine for #4, I'll guess Pie-oh-Pah for #8.
  
  At least, it's my favorite.

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  • colubra

    4/8/05 05:27 am (UTC)

    

    bing!

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• aceofkittens

  4/8/05 05:30 am (UTC)

  

  Now I want to reread #7! Hmmm... is it Raul??

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  • colubra

    4/8/05 05:31 am (UTC)

    

    Raoul rocks, but no, not he.

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• st_rev

  4/8/05 05:41 am (UTC)

  

  10. Lord Jagged?

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  • colubra

    4/8/05 06:54 am (UTC)

    

    Da. :)

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• tiferet

  4/8/05 06:50 am (UTC)

  

  Severian?
  
  and oh, I can't decide if it's Tyrion or Jaime, but perhaps that's cause I'm mixed up with my own issues there.

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  • colubra

    4/8/05 07:00 am (UTC)

    

    Nope.
    Nobody, honestly, is likely to guess that this character is my favorite from those; it's a very VERY minor character, and hardly a focal one. But I found my subconscious talking like him for literally weeks after reading through the quartet.

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• dybbuk67

  4/8/05 12:01 pm (UTC)

  

  2. Its probably somebody far more obscure, but Tyrion?
  5. Based on her justification speech, I'm going to guess you ended up really liking Liana.
  7. Too many good choices, and its probably some obscure chamber maid.
  But if I had to guess, I'm going to say Rochefort. Because I can.
  9. *goes scampering to the bookcase to remember Mr Tracy's name*

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  • colubra

    4/8/05 03:17 pm (UTC)

    

    you got 2 and 5. ;)

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• ahkond

  4/8/05 01:02 pm (UTC)

  

  Dr. Prunesquallor?

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  • colubra

    4/8/05 03:18 pm (UTC)

    

    yep!

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• black_reaver

  4/8/05 05:11 pm (UTC)

  

  

  micheal moorcock wrote a book worth reading? ;-p

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  • colubra

    4/9/05 02:40 am (UTC)

    

    hmph. A few.

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• aaronthemad

  4/9/05 04:43 am (UTC)

  

  3. The Book of the Long Sun, Gene Wolfe
  
  Big Daddy Cletus, from the hog farm.

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  • colubra

    4/9/05 05:43 am (UTC)

    

    Nope. I should be nice and just give this one- NOBODY's going to guess it. Despite the character being on about 2/3rds of the pages.

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• hmmmm....

  2eclipse

  4/18/05 09:39 pm (UTC)

  

  i don't know who you are.
  but you are a friend of schatzie's
  and you have interesting/good taste in books. will you tell me what you think of gene wolfe? i have only read the sword/citadel, claw/concilitor and have been having trouble getting into some of his other stuff.

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