Question #9: Can I get your digits?

[Danine]

What character or author would you take on a date or out to dinner. It doesn't have to be intimate it could be just a dinner/interview. What questions would you ask? What would talk about? Where would you go for your date/lunch/dinner?

I'm running low in the question department so if anyone has any questions they want to ask as a Friday question please let me know.

[Mary Todd]

I would love to go out with Hawk from the Spenser series by Robert B. Parker. He's gorgeous, bad, has a good heart and is very intelligent and well-read. What a trip! I'd let him decide all the details and just enjoy myself and have some incredible discussions.

[Tana]

This will sound lame but I would choose Harry Bosch from Michael Connelly's books. I picture a tortured Harrison Ford (younger, of course), so that could be the reason I am drawn to him. But I like the plain simple wit.

[Mary Todd]

I have a Friday question: If you found yourself in a sticky situation, what detective (police, private or amateur) would you hire to help you out?

[Trisha]

Still on the going on to dinner question, I think I would choose:Miss Rebecca Sharp from "Vanity Fair". If anyone has social prowess it would be her. Just imagine the stories she could share (and the uncouth pointers that she could give!)

[Danine]

Thanks Mary. It will be posted as a Friday question! yay!

[Laurie]

Idea for Friday question: If you could change the ending to any book, which book and why? How would you have had it end?

[Andre]

I would really dig on going out to dinner with David Weber's Honor Harrington. She would have amazing "war stories" to tell, no doubt: intelligent, beautiful, dangerous and down to earth all rolled in one. A night to remember, I'm sure :-)

I'd love to ask her questions concerning the various naval engagments she's been in. I'd enjoy hearing more about the treecat species, particularly about her childhood run-in with them. I would also ask her what the hell happend in At All Costs that led Mr. Weber to create such a predictable storyline for her?

My second choice would be to scorch some meat and get hammered with Robert E. Howard's Conan the Cimmerian. After which I'm sure I'd have some war stories to tell...LOL! I'm not sure I'd ask a lot of questions so much as keep the conversation, and ale, flowing enough that he'd keep on telling his own stories, as I'm sure there's a whole lot he didn't tell Howard.

Slainte'

[Tera (TheBookishAbyss)]

I'll allow myself a shallow moment....It would have to be Ranger from the Stephanie Plum series. There wouldn't be much talking (except maybe "babe"), but I'm fine with just looking.

[Chasidy]

I would love to go to dinner with Sherrilyn Kenyon's Valerius Magnus. Imagine an immortal ex-Roman soldier who's sole purpose is to protect man kind. Who wouldn't want the company of a man who's very intelligent, well-spoken, and well-read. The fact he has an accent and is drop dead gorgeous is just a plus. =)

[Mary Todd]

TeraD...I'm with you there, but I chose Hawk because I think Ranger is too young for me.

[Ed]

I would choose Bill Bryson. I would then totally pick his brain. Then I'm sure I would laugh my way through the meal especially with a good bottle of wine.

[Tracy]

Jane Austen. I'm sure she could dish up the best dating advice, and would help me steer clear of the Willoughbys and Wickhams of the world...

And to take out on a date: Will Ladislaw, from George Eliot's Middlemarch. He is smart, moral, talented, handsome-- with dubious familial origins. And much more intelligent and witty, IMHO, than Mr. Darcy. Probably due to the aforementioned dubious familial origins.