What Character would you be in a novel - just for fun!

Just interested to hear wht type of Characters you would like to be in a novel - just for fun!

I'd quite like to be a struggling author whose book goes viral and is made into a film!

What would your book be about? And where would you live?

Somewhere warm. What about you, Who would you be?

I would be the Curvy damsel in Distress of course! Who was owner ofand ran The Photoshoot Set Design Company - Kicks off with a phone call and a photographer friend sends me some photos to keep save - he is being hunted as someone wants those photos!! He tells me not to open the package, they contain evidence of dastardly deeds. Best I don't see them, but what are they of? Where can I hide those photo's Will I have to go on the run to escape?, What am I up against - ....... I must get out of London

When somebody gets stupid enough to write *my* biography, I'll agree to be the main character :)

Mr Micawber.

You certainly must get out of London, the Olympics are coming. It's going to be a nightmare. I'm going to Brighton!

Don't talk about Olympics - Away for first week but having to work shifts to cover the rest of games - Nightmare city here I come

Who will be the hero coming to save the damsel in distress, Boris? You could have a bike chase in the story with cycle clips and a little dog in the basket perhaps............

Olympics? Is that this year too?

Frank Bascombe, from The Sportswriter.

Snape. As long as I can vamoose to Nassau before the battle.

Henry Chinaski. Ha ha... **** the lot of you.

Or Gordon Comstock.

Good one (Comstock). At last, a character I know!

(I always knew I didn't belong on this forum...)

Comstock - a voluntary Micawber?

I've always been of the opinion that it's easier (and healthier) to decrease your material wants rather than keep climbing the greasy corporate ladder. Comstock appeals for this reason. But perhaps takes it too far!

I like Micawber's "Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen pounds nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery." How true.

Sells out in the end though, doesn't he?

I hope I'm not really a lot like Micawber - it was pretty much the first name that popped into my head. But someone who wanted to caricature me could probably do worse.

I guess the difference between him and Comstock is self-awareness (which includes conscious choice).

Or I don't belong on it. In any case, let's call the whole thing off: I immediately knew who Chinaski was and had to google Comstock. Even though I'd read Aspidistra . . .

J. Yasimoto and Gie Liath. I second the choice of Gordon Comstock. Keep The Aspidistra Flying is Orwell's only novel with (what I call) a happy ending. The satire is brilliant and scathing, also funny. Some of the advertising slogans are a scream. Unfortunately, I seem to be living the role of Winston Smith, ownlife, thoughtcrime, social alienation and all that. The role I'd like to have is that of Gordon, especially with Rosemary's deep love and loyalty to count on. I think that the fact that Rosemary becomes pregnant was a rare piece of wishful thinking on Orwell's part, since he and Eilleen couldn't have children.

You know I don't read that American stuff...

Aspidistra used to be one of my favourites, though I've pretty much read it to death now.

I didn't feel I could say Harry Haller again. I suppose that's when you know you've been on these forums too long: not only have you seen the same questions come round 3 or 4 times, but you remember what answers other people gave.

That's a good point, I noticed myself that Winston is pretty much Comstock again. I think you're right about the kids, too.

We can't all be Comstock, though. Couldn't you be Spartacus or someone?

J.Yasimoto, I don't suppose you would consider being a character running the IMF, EIB or Chancellor of the Exchequer? You appear to have grasped an economic concept long forgotten which could save the western world from collapse. What a book that would be!

Spartacus is too distant for me to really relate to. Besides, crucifixion is a slow, horrible death, and that's old Sparticus' fate. I think I'll have to settle for Winston Smith. Of course one of the main differences between Winston and Gordon is Rosemary. Winston had Julia but it was totally different, she was, as Winston notes, 'Only a rebel from the waste down'. Incidently, Orwell (Eric A. Blair) and Eilleen adopted a boy and called him Richard, after Eric's dad.

It's either that or MacMurphy from One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey's novel is an absolute classic tale of the guy who doesn't fit into a category or box, a tragic figure in the end, and one who doesn't fully comprehend what he is up against/fighting against.

Having said that, I'd also settle for Quincey in Dracula.

Looks like you know about as much about economics as George Osbourne (or Micawber!).

Was Quincey in Dracula? Gets about, doesn't he?