no crushes....but the character of Orlando was my favorite, and the ending he was given.    I actually jumped up and was shouting at my book when he died.....talk about embarrassing!  :)

Ad1tu wrote:

psh it's perfectly normal to tell people in books they aren't allowed to die. I do it all the time..!

As far as crushes on book-characters... how is that any different than a movie-character crush? If people can be in love with Jack Sparrow, than I can have a crush on book people!
While I wouldn't call it a crush, I do have a strange fondness for Gyir Stormlantern from Shadowmarch. He also has given me one of my favorite quotes of all time.. "You are only a prisoner when you surrender."

*in total agreement about Gyir Stormlantern*

Orlando has to be my favorite. But Fredericks is a good second especially due to the extra insight the reader is given of her during the last book.

I hope I'm not giving any spoilers here but Orlando's end (the one before the actual ending :) ) was always something I expected and I found it a lot more appropriate for him that just wasting away due to the disease. His appearance afterward was of course heart warming but I had already accepted his fate before that. He's a real goody good fighter and almost too decent for me to stand it but there are some rough edges too.

No crushes in Otherland, but I understand the concept.  I'd have to pick Ferras Vansen as a book-crush though.   (And Richard Rahl :P  diff writer!)


Anyway, Orlando, hands down, my favorite character.  I haven't read the series in years and he's the one I remember best.  I also identify with the gamer/Tolkien lover in him (and that means probably Tad too ;) ).

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Agreed on Orlando - I was infatuated with gaming at the time and it was quite the wake-up call/"ooh I wish that would happen to me" call. The gender plays between he and Sam, especially early on, are my favorite pieces of exciting tension!

Orlando here too.

I didn't accept his death. I was kind of hoping his consciousness had somehow been 'backed up' in Otherland - kind of like Felix, but witout the Ceremony. I'm sure The Other could have sorted him out :/.

I have to say, embarrasingly enough.. Dread was my favorite.  I actually wrote a fan fic that involves a spin off of him.  He's my bad guy.

One of my favorite things with Tad is he never writes a 'perfect' character.  They all have their flaws which makes them all the more real with me, so I agree with the fact it's hard to pick a favorite.

Out of the good guys, Martine is my favorite.  :)  I know, I'm weird.  hee!

He does have this amazing way of bringing the characters to live in such a 3 D way you wonder where he's got them tucked away cause they HAVE to be real!!

I love how he gives out all these loose strings and you think.. okay Taddles, where are you going with this??  Then suddenly he snatches all the loose ends and makes an amazingly intricate and spectacular knot!

I love reading his series several times cause every time I do I go back and catch something and go "Ooooooh!  That's from.. OOOOOOohh."