Who is/are your favorite fictional character(s)

[Liquid Blue]

Animorphs were good shit when I was in 6th grade

[Scurvy]

i dont want to quote everybody i'm replying to but i do enjoy discussing literature (or stories)

I never got into redwall so much as a kid, i was more into sci fi than fantasy as a teen. One of my all time favorite books is still Battlefield: Earth. Great epic sci fi read, imo.

over the summer i read The dune series, which is badass, the Foundation trilogy, which is very good but a level below dune, i think.

A VERY influential book i read recently was The World According to Garp which I read straight through twice and immediately began journaling short stories as a result of. Anybody who hasn't read any john irving, I highly recommend it, and the world according to garp is a great place to start (you may remember the old film with robin williams as the title role)

I've also began reading Tom Robbins, Bill Bryson, and Chuck Palahnuik (sp?) fairly recently. I've read Another Roadside Attraction, I'm A Stranger Here Myself, and Rant (among others) by each, respectively. I'd reccomend any of those three as a fairly light, easy, but hilarious read.

And for christmas as a joke i got the entire animorphs series from a friend that he picked up at a garage sale, but i have seriously read about 6 of them in my free time since christmas.


and i agree with Kolar- Charlie Kelly has jumped up to my favorite fictional characters very recently

[Liquid Blue]

nice

can i be sour sally

[Squeezer]

who was comparing it to hemmingway?

I'm pretty sure it just started out as "redwall is awesome" and then squeez had to come and be negative nancy on our parade

[gran guerrero]

or nobel winning smoking artist

I would have accepted stoner, but yeah I guess I make art with my smoke (oh also fyi, last time I smoked was out of a vape for my friend's birthday on xmas, besides that Haven't been around weed in months)?

[Summa]

or nobel winning economists

or nobel winning smoking artist

[gran guerrero]

itt twforums becomes nobel-worthy art critics

or nobel winning economists

[Jerome Scuggs]

itt twforums becomes nobel-worthy art critics

[gran guerrero]

what separates literature from those stories as you put it, is simply the message behind the writing.

If it affects your fantasy, your imagination, then it's a story.

If it affects society, your ideas, then it's literature.

[Liquid Blue]

And that's exactly what he is. A story teller. I read the majority of the Redwall series between the ages of 12 and 15 and it is definitely a quality series. However (generally speaking, I don't want to get too much into specifics) I put fiction writers into two categories. Those who write literature and those who write stories. Jacques is one of the better story writers of our time and like squeez said he is there with Rowling, Koontz, Clancy, etc. But to claim that the Redwall series is on par with literature is a travesty in my mind. It's good shit, but it ain't shit compared to Hemmingway.

who was comparing it to hemmingway?

I'm pretty sure it just started out as "redwall is awesome" and then squeez had to come and be negative nancy on our parade

[gran guerrero]

Bigwig from Watership Down, great book, great character.

redwall series was actually stemmed from this book, so for once I have to agree with wark.

[Pandagirl!]

Twilight was a good book, not because the plot was good (which it really wasn't - she relied on deus ex machina way too much and spent most of the 1st book talking about nothing and then started the plot and finished it in 3 chapters), but because she's a good character writer. The only reason I really liked the books so much was because I really like the characters, which she developed quite well.

[Kolar]

Charlie Kelly

[kthx]

Bigwig from Watership Down, great book, great character.

[Summa]

he's really fucking awesome and literally seems like a grandpa that tells these types of stories to his kids during a snowstorm

And that's exactly what he is. A story teller. I read the majority of the Redwall series between the ages of 12 and 15 and it is definitely a quality series. However (generally speaking, I don't want to get too much into specifics) I put fiction writers into two categories. Those who write literature and those who write stories. Jacques is one of the better story writers of our time and like squeez said he is there with Rowling, Koontz, Clancy, etc. But to claim that the Redwall series is on par with literature is a travesty in my mind. It's good shit, but it ain't shit compared to Hemmingway.