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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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April 2010
Gang Leader for a Day
by Sudhir Venkatesh
As a graduate student in sociology at the University of Chicago, author Sudhir Venkatesh gained entrance into one of Chicago's largest street gangs. Gang Leader for a Day tells the story of the inner workings of the gang and the extraordinary friendship he developed with one of the gang's leaders.
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Gang Leader for a Day
by Sudhir Venkatesh
May 10
The Order of Odd-Fish
by James Kennedy
June 14
Jimmy Corrigan
by Chris Ware
July 12
The Wild Things
by Dave Eggers
August 9
Loving Frank
by Nancy Horan
September 13
Young Lonigan
by James T. Farrell
October 11
Chicago: A Novel
by Alaa Al Aswany
November 8
The Cradle
by Patrick Somerville
March 8
Red Azalea
by Anchee Min
February 8
The Stone Diaries
by Carol Shields
January 11
The Corrections
by Jonathan Franzen
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Val / October 4, 2007 2:20 PM
The Mask of the Red Death
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