bibliothecula
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like Bunnicula, only with books
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« on: August 29, 2011, 10:37:19 AM » |
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I know I can't be the only one who's had imaginary conversations with book characters. I'll start:
Lirael of Garth Nix's Abhorsen series. She can bring the Disreputable Dog and Mogget, too.
Arkady Renko of Martin Cruz Smith's books. He can quote Akhmatova and keeps his gun behind his Pasternak translation of Macbeth; what's not to like?
Mary Russell of Laurie R. King's books. Theology, art, detection.
Kit Fielding from Dick Francis. Maybe dinner isn't the right word....
Spenser and Hawk and Rita Fiore, from the earlier of Robert B. Parker's series, when they had good dialogue. Drippy Susan can stay home.
Morgaine, from Marion Zimmer Bradley's Mists of Avalon.
I'm sure I'll think of more. You all?
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llanfair
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« Reply #1 on: August 29, 2011, 11:11:07 AM » |
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Ooh, fun! Here are mine, off the top of my head:
Charlotte and Nell from And God Created the Au Pair;
Will Somers from The Autobiography of Henry VIII;
Jack Barack and his wife Tamasin from the Shardlake mysteries;
Mr Bennet from Pride and Prejudice;
Maybell from Gone With the Windsors;
Merlin from Mary Stewart's trilogy;
and Viviane from Mists of Avalon. (Sorry, Bibliothecula - Morgaine sometimes seemed to me to need a good whack with a cluebat.)
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« Reply #2 on: August 29, 2011, 11:14:26 AM » |
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Jesus from The Bible. I'd like to know what really happened (of course, we'd need an Aramaic interpreter).
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« Reply #3 on: August 29, 2011, 11:32:07 AM » |
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Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane
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« Reply #4 on: August 29, 2011, 11:44:55 AM » |
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Jack Shaftoe from Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle.
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« Reply #5 on: August 29, 2011, 11:59:27 AM » |
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+1 to Wimsey and Vane. They can bring the Dowager Duchess too.
Francis Crawford and Philippa Somerville from the Lymond Chronicles.
For Parker, I think I'd rather meet Jesse Stone than anyone from the Spensers.
Diarmuid from the Fionavar chronicles (maybe to go out drinking with, rather than dinner...).
Molly and Robin from Pamela Dean's Tam Lin (I think they'd be more fun that the actual main characters of Janet and Thomas).
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« Reply #6 on: August 29, 2011, 12:01:31 PM » |
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Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane
But they're coming to my house! |
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"Love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair."
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« Reply #7 on: August 29, 2011, 12:06:41 PM » |
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Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane
+1 All one would need to do is sit back and enjoy the repartee. |
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"People assume that time is a strict progression from cause to effect. But actually, from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey stuff." - the Doctor
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« Reply #8 on: August 29, 2011, 12:43:34 PM » |
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Pilate from Song of Solomon
Robert Frobisher from Cloud Atlas
Don Gately from Infinite Jest
Jo March from Little Women
Lillian Leyb from Away
Paul Chowder from The Anthologist
and Olive Kitteridge
I thought about Huck Finn, but he wouldn't have fun sitting down for dinner.
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bibliothecula
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« Reply #9 on: August 29, 2011, 12:46:09 PM » |
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and Viviane from Mists of Avalon. (Sorry, Bibliothecula - Morgaine sometimes seemed to me to need a good whack with a cluebat.)
LOL. I agree, Morgaine, you're out. Wimsey and Vine would be excellent as well. More: Molly Grue (and maybe Schmendrick) from Peter Beagle. Atticus Finch. Max the cat from the Provensens' Maple Hill Farm. And Behemoth from Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita, in cat form, of course. Peter Lake from Mark Helprin's Winter's Tale. Turtle from Ellen Raskin's The Westing Game. Nicholai Hel,from Trevanian's Shibumi. Sunday, from Gary Jennings's Spangle. Rose, from the eponymous book by Cruz Smith. |
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« Reply #10 on: August 29, 2011, 12:52:29 PM » |
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Another few:
Gudrid Thorbjarnardottir and her husband Karlsefni from The Sea Road;
Cornelia from Anne's House of Dreams;
Blackberry from Watership Down - again, we'd need a translator to handle the Lapine;
Flora from Cold Comfort Farm.
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« Reply #11 on: August 29, 2011, 01:28:40 PM » |
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Granny Weatherwax and/or Sam Vimes from Terry Pratchett's Discworld series.
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« Reply #12 on: August 29, 2011, 03:27:23 PM » |
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Amarante Cordova or Ruby Archuleta from The Milagro Beanfield War
Abel Magwitch from Great Expectations
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« Reply #13 on: August 29, 2011, 03:32:26 PM » |
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Cornelia from Anne's House of Dreams;
I'd like to meet Susan Baker. |
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i had fun once and it was awful
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« Reply #14 on: August 29, 2011, 03:35:37 PM » |
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Bertie Wooster
Lord Peter and Harriet (we're going to have to fight for them!)
Grandma Mazur from Janet Evanovich's number books
Calvin (from Calvin and Hobbes)
Jaime Lannister from the Game of Thrones books
Ellen Olenska from Age of Innocence
Bobby Shaftoe from Cryptonomicon (yes, Larry, I am taking him! Is it a different one? Like a grandfather or something?)
Oh, lots more, but that's enough for now!
Let's make it all one big cocktail party and invite EVERYBODY. That way we could hang out with each other too!
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