If you could live the life of a fictional character?

Paddy Samurai

As it says.......who would it be?.
I have read hundreds of books containing some brilliant characters ,but for me the life that most appeals to me would be that of Uhtred of Bebbanburg , in Bernard Cornwells series set in anglo/saxon britain.

I love RR Martins ,Game of Thrones series,but none of their lives appeal to me.........too short:D.

So if you could ,who would it be Sherlock Holmes?,Paul Atreides from Dune?,Leopold Bloom from Ulysses?,Judge Holden from Blood Meridian?....or something more sedate?.....Huckleberry finn?.

SBWife

Raoul Duke

Sergeant

Sir Harry Paget Flashman.

Emiko

A toss-up between Shantaram and Jack Shaftoe, King of the Vagabonds.

Andromeda_111

Dr Doolittle (a female version)

rockmongrel

Twoflower from the Discworld novels, what a happy, innocent life that would be.

longshanks

Henry Chinaski or maybe Jesus

Tordelback

Emiko wrote: »

...Jack Shaftoe, King of the Vagabonds.

Aka 'Half-cocked Jack'? Err, no thanks! Harry Flashman is more the thing, well maybe not the slave trading stuff, or the frequent torture, or the constant state of terror, so well maybe not Flashy either.

It's Jack Aubrey for me. Or maybe Samwise Gamgee,

Hermy

Sal Paradise On The Road

epgc3fyqirnbsx

Pip from Great Expectations. It would be amazing to see London back then, and the marshes which for me were kind of hard to understand until you realise the huge lack of infrastructure as we know it. And that horrible class system.
Actually, any of Dickens characters

Also, John Blackthorne from Shogun. I can't even begin to imagine what it would be like to discover such a culture, at first savage but after a time, in some ways so progressive, hygiene and sex for the main part

patff

Gandalf the Grey

migozarad

Casanova

Elmidena

Mara from Feist's Empire Trilogy as I find her development and view on the world interesting, or maybe May-May from Tai-Pan...cunning, clever but delicate to an extent.

Mardy Bum

Tom Sawyer

Manach

Mr. Darcy of Pembleton.

Denerick

Brandon Stark. I want to inhabit trees.

D1stant

Lady Chatterleys lover

lordgoat

Great thread.

Tomas from Feist's series.

Kemp or Yehman from the rum diary.

Toru or Naoko

Red Hand

Billy Pilgrim from Slaughterhouse 5. Not knowing what part of your life you are going to wake up in...excellent.

emeraldstar

Manach wrote: »

Mr. Darcy of Pembleton.

Do you mean Mr Darcy of Pemberley or is this one of his cousins?

Paddy Samurai

Daisy Attractive Nectar wrote: »

Also, John Blackthorne from Shogun. I can't even begin to imagine what it would be like to discover such a culture, at first savage but after a time, in some ways so progressive, hygiene and sex for the main part

Yeah I agree Blackthorne's experience is one that would be interesting to live through.

Manach

emeraldstar wrote: »

Do you mean Mr Darcy of Pemberley or is this one of his cousins?

Any one of his landed cousins would do. So long as it is not in one of those alternative histories worlds (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies)

Gneez

Desmond 'Coyote' from the Mars trilogy, stowaway about the Ares, colony ship to Mars, living in the ships greenhouse and being hidden by the farm crew, eventually becoming a critical part of the rebellion and uprising, living in the city zygote under the south polar cap and being an ambassador for the Mars underground.

The guy sure gets around.

KTRIC

Tyler Durden, cant get more fictional than that :pac:

glomar

Dirk Pitt ... from the Clive Cussler books
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Monty Burnz

Jesus, from best selling book 'The Bible'. Nice guy, popular with his friends. He hit a few rough patches, but it all worked out in the end.

KTRIC

Monty Burnz wrote: »

Jesus, from best selling book 'The Bible'. Nice guy, popular with his friends. He hit a few rough patches, but it all worked out in the end.

Its fictional not fantasy.

Conall Cernach

If we're allowed Fantasy and Sci-fi then I'd opt for either Aiken Drum or Marc Remillard from Julian May's The Saga of the Exiles.

If we're being more realistic then how about the narrator of At Swim-Two-Birds?

gent9662

Dorian Gray

Manach

KTRIC wrote: »

Its fictional not fantasy.

Historical figure, not fictional. (IMO based on a classics course.)

Gordon Gecko

Bertie Wooster - a comfortable, carefree life!

nirvanaholic

James Bond:cool:

Tordelback

Oh yeah, Bertie Wooster's a good one! I'm thinking Jerry Cornelius might be fun (although I might steer clear of the incest), as would Enoch Root.

emeraldstar

Gordon Gecko wrote: »

Bertie Wooster - a comfortable, carefree life!

I don't know, it'd be rather tiring I'd say. He's seems to spend all his days trying to get out of scrapes.

johnny_ultimate

lordgoat wrote: »

Toru or Naoko

I'd go with Toru but pick Midori if Kiko Mizuhara is anything to go by.

LightningBolt

I think it would be fun to be Luke Rhinehart "The Dice Man" for a while. That would be very interesting actually.

Tordelback

emeraldstar wrote: »

I don't know, it'd be rather tiring I'd say. He's seems to spend all his days trying to get out of scrapes.

True, but he doesn't ever try very hard, does he? And anyway, Jeeves will always save his bacon in the end.

emeraldstar

I think he tries very hard actually! He's a good friend to his friends is Bertie. If a bit ineffectual at times.

Tordelback

True, true - he certainly starts into each task with a will... Maybe I've started conflating Bertie with House. And before you ask, no!

damselnat

The Weasley twins, preferably the one who doesn't die....they always seemed like they were having good craic....Dorian Gray too, either of them would do

Kinski

Indiana Jones. Though I wouldn't want to be one of his students. That guy did not take his teaching commitments seriously. He used to just venture off in the middle of the semester: "Apologies, class is cancelled this week as I find myself held-up in Europe, fighting Nazis and pursuing the Ark of the Covenant." He could have at least set down the Holy Grail for long enough to grade a few end-of-term papers. What a selfish prick.