Character/Book game

[Lori, Super Mod]

I thought I would try another game.

In this version, a character name will be posted. If you know the name of the novel that character is from, post the answer, and then you list a new character name for us to post on....

Simple enough, right?

(just try to stay away from painfully obvious ones ex: Harry Potter or Odd Thomas -- character names that appear in the title of the novel....)

Heres an easy one to kick us off:

Holden Caulfield.

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Holden Caulfield - Catcher in the Rye.

Piscine Molitor Patel

[Lori, Super Mod]

Piscine Molitor Patel ---Life of Pi

Robert Neville

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Robert Neville - I Am Legend

(I'm terrible with names!)

Humbert Humbert

[Lori, Super Mod]

Humbert Humbert - Lolita?

Randle Patrick McMurphy

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Yep, Humbert is that creep in Lolita:)

Randle Patrick McMurphy - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (I love that character)


Quoyle

[Brooke]

Quoyle - The Shipping News

Susie Salmon

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Susie Salmon - Lovely Bones

Roxane Coss

[Beth]

Roxane Coss - Bel Canto

Lionel Essrog

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Lionel Essrog - Motherless Brooklyn


John Singer

[Beth]

John Singer - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Robert/Roberta Muldoon

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I remember a Robert Muldoon in Jurassic Park but not Roberta.Is Jurassic Park the answer?

[Beth]

Actually, it's "The World According to Garp". Roberta Muldoon was formerly Robert Muldoon, who played for the Philadelphia Eagles, then had sex-reassignment surgery after reading Garp's mother's book. I didn't know there was a Robert Muldoon in Jurassic Park!

Peg, you go next.

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I completely forgot about Garp! I think that Robert Muldoon is also the guy in Jurassic Park who thinks that the dinosaurs should be destroyed because of the threat they are to human life.


Annie Wilkes

[Beth]

Annie Wilkes - Misery

Milo Minderbinder

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Milo Minderbinder - Catch 22

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Sorry, I forgot to write the next clue.

Parsifal

[Lori, Super Mod]

Peg, can we get a hint?

[Anthony Edwards]

Is it by chance: The Parsifal Mosaic

I hope it is because my clue is Lindsay Boxer

[Lori, Super Mod]

Was that the 5th Horseman by James Patterson?

If so: Bob Arctor

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Sorry, I was distracted by "work."

Parsifal is the magician in The Magician's Assistant by Ann Patchett

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What about Taylor Greer?

[Beth]

Taylor Greer - The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver

next: Wing Biddlebaum

[Lori, Super Mod]

Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio (??)

I cheated, I know, shame on me... Was this the short story you got the name from?

If Im right, how about:
Bob Arctor/Fred

(I was skipped when I put him down last time, sniff sniff)

[Alison]

A Scanner Darkly...Philip K. Dick

next: Lucy Honeychurch

[Lori, Super Mod]

Alison, can we have a hint on this one?

[★Lalita ❤︎]

A Room with a View...E.M. Forster

next: Dorothy Gale

[Lori, Super Mod]

Wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum

up next: Guy Montag

[Firas]

That guy's name was stuck in my head from the beginning.

Fahrenheit 451- Ray Bradbury

Up Next: Bigger Thomas

P.S: Try to do the last character somebody put up. Don't post something until you put an answer to someone else's thing please. Keeps this thing going the right way.

[Fenixbird]

Native Son by Richard Wright

up next: Jack Sawyer

Ok Here's a Hint: Co-authored by Peter & Stephen H E L L O?

Another Hint: Futuristic

[Jenna]

Black House- Stephen King and Peter ...

Next: Pisine Patel

[Andy]

Life of Pi - Yann Martel



Next: Ginny Babcock

[Fenixbird]

Nope! Not the correct book, Jenna! But you had Stephen King correct! Guess again!

Back up the game...These were GENEROUS hints...and you did not even supply the co-author's last name! You can search it on this site? Did you look up Stephen King??

HINT: If you read the reviews of Black House you will know which book I intended!

[Hey, I am defending the accusation of my being easy-peasy! LOL]

[Jenna]

yeesh fenixbird! black house is a book i started but never finished and youre right i didnt search anything so thats why i couldnt remember straub off the top of my head but i looked at the reviews like you said and is it the talisman?..

and ginny babock is from kinsflick by lisa alther
... another one i never finished

next: Daisy St. Patience

[Fenixbird]

Yes, Jenna, The Talisman! (I have not yet read Black House; but it has just been bumped to 3rd on my list of to reads)

I have no clue on yours..

So go with NEXT: Daisy St. Patience

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Invisible Monsters- Chuck Palahniuk


Jean-Baptiste Grenouille

[Jodie]

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind.

If that's correct, next: Jacob Jankowski

[Fenixbird]

Jodie, is this from All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque ?

[Beth]

I believe Jacob Jankowski is from "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen.

[Beth]

Next up:
Mitch McDeere

[Alison]

Hey Beth! Can I do this one? (You know this Memphian can't pass it up.)

Mitch McDeere--The Firm, John Grisham

Next up: The Continental Op

[Fenixbird]

A hint perhaps Alison?

[Fenixbird]

The Continental Op (Crime Masterworks)
by Dashiell Hammett

Next Character from a book: Ford Prefect

*Please let's be sure we select a character's name, okay??

[Aimee]

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Universe by Douglas Adams

Next: Willie Stark

[Rachel]

All the King's Men : Robert Penn Warren



Next: Gogol Ganguli

[Jaime]

Gogol Ganguli - The Namesake

Next: Beatrice Jordan

[Alison]

Sorry! I didn't check this for a while. The Continental Op is the main character in Dashielle Hammett's "Red Harvest" which is the last book I read. His real name is never given. He is an operative for The Continental Detective Agency out of San Fransisco. Sorry for the confusion. Carry on!

[Fenixbird]

God-Shaped Hole by Tiffanie DeBartolo

Jaime..Is this Correct???

[Jaime]

Totally correct! Good Job!

[Fenixbird]

Thank you, Jamie (that character is in several books I believe?)

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