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Comment by Michel on February 1, 2013 at 1:16pm

OK, that does it.
It's time we start a SciFi group.

Coming shortly...

Comment by Marianne on February 1, 2013 at 8:01am

I read mostly fiction; detective and thrillers.  At the moment I'm deeply engrossed in Elizabeth Geoge "Believing the lie".

Comment by Neal on January 14, 2013 at 6:11pm

I think everyone probably has their own list, as can be seen by the comments. Taggart would possibly make it to my least liked, but only a personal preference.

I always had my face in a book as well, but mostly sci-fi like some others. One that would sit on the top of my list was Mahasamatman who said he was a god. He preferred to drop the Maha- and the -atman, however, and called himself Sam.

 

Comment by Davy on January 14, 2013 at 4:34pm

I did the same, except in my case it was scifi along with science and aeronautical based books. 

Comment by Michel on January 14, 2013 at 4:18pm

...and I forgot:

One of the most lovable robots, Mack Megaton, in A. Lee Martinez's The Automatic Detective. A poor but extremely powerful "bot who tries to prove that he isn't just an automated smashing machine and earn his citizenship in the process. But some bots just can't catch a break."

Comment by Roswatheist on January 14, 2013 at 4:04pm

I like scifi, too. The nonfiction I read is mostly either history or somehow related to atheism. But fiction is my first love. Without sounding melodramatic, hopefully, I used novels for escape when I was a teenager, and the habit never went away. My tastes are eclectic in the extreme, but mostly fiction.

Comment by Onyango Makagutu on January 14, 2013 at 3:49pm

I like Ivan in Brothers Karamazov even though at the end he seems to lose his mind

I don't know whether it is HH I like or Lolita. Must be Lolita

Comment by Davy on January 14, 2013 at 3:37pm

I'm a bit like both Adriana and Michel in that I read a lot of non-fiction, scifi ( some of which I write as well) I have read a lot fairy tales, Myths and legends from around the world, and fiction from English writers from the past centuries. Obscure titles written by obscure writers. The only writer I have read from the USA is Samuel Clements AKA Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. He also wrote a short story based in Sydney about a boxer from his rise from obscurity to fame then his return to obscurity. 

Besides Australian authors some well known others not so well known.

As for favourite characters none!

Comment by Adriana on January 14, 2013 at 3:25pm

I did read Anna Karenina, about 30 years ago, I did not remember the name of the character. Now I looked it up, and it jolted my memory. I also confess to not being crazy about the book, back then. 

I loved the characters in Gabriel García Márquez's 100 Years of Solitude, especially Aureliano Buendía.

I remember fondly the gorilla in Bernard Malamud's God's Grace, George. He was the most likable character, a gentle giant with a taste for music. I almost always remember the animal characters in books. When I was a kid, my favorite character from fiction was a dog, Buck, from The Call of the Wild.

I like Nadine Gordimer as a fiction writer, and I loved the character of Hillela from A Sport of Nature, because well, she IS a sport of nature and i've always fancied myself as a bit of a sport of nature myself :-)

Comment by Roswatheist on January 14, 2013 at 3:07pm

Fucking auto-correct! Rhett.

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