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Ink Tue Oct 02 2007
Favorite Bad Guy
Who is your favorite fictional villain?
— Alice Maggio / Comments (6)
brian / October 5, 2007 11:58 AM
What a cool question.
Ganesh Gaitonde is my current answer having just read "Sacred Games" but I think the real answer has to come from a comic book.
Veronica / October 5, 2007 12:23 PM
You know, I've been thinking about this and I can't come up with one single villian in the stories I remember. Does that mean there were no villians or that I the villians that existed were sympathic and I don't think of them as villians? I continue to ponder...
Val / October 5, 2007 2:53 PM
I like the villains in novels that either start off as a normal character and turn into a villain, or the other way around. I think Madame Coulter in The Golden Compass is a little like that.
Alice / October 5, 2007 3:58 PM
Ah, comic book villains...good one. Yes, I confess that even though I asked the question, I've been having a hard time picking a single villain, too. Maybe Uriah Heep from one of my all-time favorites, David Copperfield. Or Miss Havisham from Great Expectations. Dickens is always good for the great villains.
Sarah / October 8, 2007 11:22 PM
Hannibal Lecter from the Thomas Harris series. Silence of the Lambs et.al. Scary as hell even before the movie.
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This Month's Selection:
November 2009
Travel Writing
by Peter Ferry
In this debut novel, high school English teacher Peter Ferry witnesses a fatal car accident and becomes obsessed with learning about the life of the victim, Lisa Kim.
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Travel Writing
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Lords of the Levee
by Herman Kogan and Lloyd Wendt
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The Echo Maker
by Richard Powers
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La Perdida
by Jessica Abel
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Every Crooked Pot
by Renee Rosen
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Cat's Cradle
by Kurt Vonnegut
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Passing
by Nella Larsen
April 13
Then We Came to the End
by Joshua Ferris
March 16
The Book of Ralph
by John McNally
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A River Runs Through It
by Norman Maclean
January 12
A Raisin in the Sun
by Lorraine Hansberry
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Val / October 4, 2007 2:20 PM
The Mask of the Red Death
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