BECOME THE CHARACTER....NAME THE FICTIONAL CHARACTER!!

[Rick-Founder JM CM BOOK CLUB]

I thought it would be fun if we tried to becomeour favorite characters from books, describing "ourselves" with a few lines...and seeing who can come up with character/and or book!

I shall start...

"Hi all., I'm just a fry cook from Pico Mundo, happens I can see the dead who don't want to pass over for whatever reason."

[Anne]

Odd Thomas?

[Rick-Founder JM CM BOOK CLUB]

Anne wrote: "Odd Thomas?"

you got it!!

[Rick-Founder JM CM BOOK CLUB]

"I am a rather large detective, love orchids"

[Marc]

Nero Wolfe.

[Howard]

"I am rather large, related to a detective, and am indifferent to orchids or most anything else."

[Rick-Founder JM CM BOOK CLUB]

Howard wrote: ""I am rather large, related to a detective, and am indifferent to orchids or most anything else.""

hmmm Mycroft Holmes?

[Howard]

Yes Rick, just starting out with an easy one, you understand.

Now, I am a member of an ancient & powerful family, yet my death was deemed a necessary to its survival, and so I was killed to preserve its integrity.

Yet, it turns out, to no avail.

[Rick-Founder JM CM BOOK CLUB]

Howard wrote: "Yes Rick, just starting out with an easy one, you understand.

Now, I am a member of an ancient & powerful family, yet my death was deemed a necessary to its survival, and so I was killed to preser..."

no clue!!
Caesar?

[Howard]

Rick, I'm starting to like this thread, but can see it's going to be much tougher than the 'name the movie by line' one that's taken off like wildfire.

Not Caesar, I'm afraid, but noble nonetheless.

I'll tell you tomorrow if no one gets it by then.

[Barbara]

Howard wrote: "Yes Rick, just starting out with an easy one, you understand.

Now, I am a member of an ancient & powerful family, yet my death was deemed a necessary to its survival, and so I was killed to preser..."

I really have no clue but going out on a limb...Robert the Bruce

[Howard]

Barbara, wow, it's been a long time since I've seen this thread.

I guess Rick gave up & I forgot to respond, also & I also guess that I was right in that the thread was not so popular as were others he's started.

Remember, knowing Rick is such a classic movie fan, I was doing my best to stump him by refering to a less well known character in a classic flick, who was a real person, but he (Rick, that is) didn't bite.

I was going for Ptolemy XIII of Egypt, Cleopatra's brother/husband.

As she was a legimate member of the royal family, better looking & more plyable to Roman wishes, she was chosen to succeed in her own name, which she did & thus became Cleoparta XIV & only later took sides against Rome with her new squeeze, Marc Anthony.

But only after her younger brother/husband was found dead, floating in the Nile.

It was thought best, in order to keep the line going, but of course, all you need do is watch the movie to see how that turned out.

Caesar, by the by, plays a major part in my latest Epic Fable.

[Rick-Founder JM CM BOOK CLUB]

Howard wrote: "Barbara, wow, it's been a long time since I've seen this thread.

I guess Rick gave up & I forgot to respond, also & I also guess that I was right in that the thread was not so popular as were othe..."

I love this thread Howard..think it is a great idea..will have to try tosee if it can catch on..had not clue as to your character...thought and thought..could not come up with it! Great clue tho!

[Barbara]

Howard wrote: "Barbara, wow, it's been a long time since I've seen this thread.

I guess Rick gave up & I forgot to respond, also & I also guess that I was right in that the thread was not so popular as were othe..."

I was looking through all the threads, and thought I'd reply.

[Howard]

Rick & Barbara, here's another classic flick:

I'm an ancient retainer to an ancient family but in another life I was a physicist & in another, much later one, a Medical Doctor.

[Rick-Founder JM CM BOOK CLUB]

Howard wrote: "Rick & Barbara, here's another classic flick:

I'm an ancient retainer to an ancient family but in another life I was a physicist & in another, much later one, a Medical Doctor."

got me on that one!!! sounds so so familiar!

[Howard]

Come on Rick, you know this guy.

The first two clues are movies & the third, a TV show.

[Rick-Founder JM CM BOOK CLUB]

Howard wrote: "Come on Rick, you know this guy.

The first two clues are movies & the third, a TV show."

Now it can't be James Mason! Hmmmm Paul Muni? But he was never on tv. Robert Young was Marcus Welby but can't match him to the films. Richard Chamberlain perhaps?

[Howard]

Rick, I'm taking pity on you, but only because you came up with this thread & so I'm also making you work:

Ben Hur, The Day the Earth Stood Still & Ben Casey.

Plus I had a hot 2nd wife 30 yrs my junior & we were very happy for as long as I lasted.

[Rick-Founder JM CM BOOK CLUB]

Howard wrote: "Rick, I'm taking pity on you, but only because you came up with this thread & so I'm also making you work:

Ben Hur, The Day the Earth Stood Still & Ben Casey.

Plus I had a hot 2nd wife 30 yrs my ..."

Ahhhhhhhhhh. Sam Jaffe!!!!! And yes he was married to Bettye Ackerman!!!

[Barbara]

Name the character....then it's your turn.

I'm a hobbit from the Shire who leaves an important piece of jewelry to my younger cousin.

[Laura]

Bilbo Baggins


I am considered the first lesbian detective in the American mystery genre. I work for the LAPD and have covered some very hard cases.

[Barbara]

Laura wrote: "Bilbo Baggins


I am considered the first lesbian detective in the American mystery genre. I work for the LAPD and have covered some very hard cases."

Is it Kate Delafield?

[Laura]

Barbara wrote: "Laura wrote: "Bilbo Baggins


I am considered the first lesbian detective in the American mystery genre. I work for the LAPD and have covered some very hard cases."

Is it Kate Delafield?"

Yes!

[Barbara]

I am a historian who's obsessed with the 'Crosswicks Curse' that took a horrific toll on some wealthy, influential Princeton families in 1905 and 1906.