tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post5620801321847936810..comments2024-03-25T09:56:16.164+00:00Comments on An Awfully Big Blog Adventure: Fictional crushes... by Cecilia BusbyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-21674110390066281092016-01-10T11:18:10.938+00:002016-01-10T11:18:10.938+00:00Fun post! I'm a Faramir girl myself. You all h...Fun post! I'm a Faramir girl myself. You all have given me lots of ideas for a TBR list. (I haven't read the book w/T. Cromwell yet. Will have to read it and get back to you...)Tabathahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14367572663591077922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-77871821683583948702016-01-07T09:37:07.843+00:002016-01-07T09:37:07.843+00:00And if we're going on to Shakespeare, Mercutio...And if we're going on to Shakespeare, Mercutio has my vote.<br />C.J.Busbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12288574235370421625noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-83129563413699984382016-01-07T09:31:51.571+00:002016-01-07T09:31:51.571+00:00Ooh - K.M. Peyton - of course! Totally forgotten t...Ooh - K.M. Peyton - of course! Totally forgotten that I had a massive crush on Patrick Pennington! And Laurie (from Little Women, I assume). Those were the days... Sad no one else gets T. Cromwell though... ;-)C.J.Busbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12288574235370421625noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-81282230461267472812016-01-06T23:53:31.431+00:002016-01-06T23:53:31.431+00:00Ooh, yes, Horatio! I'd much rather him than Ha...Ooh, yes, Horatio! I'd much rather him than Hamlet, though I do worry about the fact that he is perfectly willing to add himself to the pile of bodies at the end and only the dying Hamlet talks him out of it, maybe the one sensible thing he ever does.<br /><br />Well, I'd like to add Aubrey Fitzwilliam from Michael,Pryor's Laws Of Magic series and his SFnal "brother" from Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan saga, Miles Vorkosigan. Both gentlemen are intelligent and lively(perhaps TOO lively) and like their women smart and brave. Sue Bursztynskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09362273418897882971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-85713253911244916832016-01-06T15:03:29.656+00:002016-01-06T15:03:29.656+00:00Definitely Faramir. Not Thomas Cromwell - I just d...Definitely Faramir. Not Thomas Cromwell - I just don't see that. Horatio, from Hamlet - I think I pictured him as the French assistant we had at the time, who had floppy dark hair, glasses and a long scarf, and seemed very clever in a slightly world-weary way. Mr Whisper, from the book of the same name, by Brenda Macrow, which nobody else has ever heard of but I loved. Oh, this is fun...Sue Purkisshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09084528571944803477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-72853598451648665232016-01-06T12:58:11.609+00:002016-01-06T12:58:11.609+00:00Oh, yes, I was a girl for a fictional crush. Start...Oh, yes, I was a girl for a fictional crush. Starting with Laurie. Barney the circus boy was the only Enid Blyton character I could have had a crush on, though I had no problem crushing on lots of the Chalet girls.<br /><br />M Peyton was best at sparking my adolescent need -- often more than one in the same book. Then I moved on to Lord Peter. I still can never feel the same way about a fictional experience if it doesn't offer crush-fodder. Films too. Sheena Wilkinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13847659993713606837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-82749151740604084952016-01-06T11:31:16.727+00:002016-01-06T11:31:16.727+00:00Must agree with you about Faramir! I always though...Must agree with you about Faramir! I always thought I'd much rather date him than Aragorn. And for good reason, BTW. Faramir is the one with whom Tolkien identified. You can understand crushing on the author's own favourite character. I imagine Faramir as the kind who would remember your birthday and take you out to some cosy Gondorian restaurant where the staff knew his name - and you could quite happily spend dinner with both your noses in your academic books without offending. A grown woman's book boyfriend, though you seem to have discovered him at an age when other girls would be crushing on Aragorn or Legolas. ;-)<br /><br />Han Solo, yes, definitely! No need to admit to a secret vice for buying your Star Wars tickets for your own enjoyment. And Harrison Ford is the one who went on to stardom; the others were by no means forgotten, but he is the one who went on to yet another classic role. I must admit, I am more into Indiana Jones than Han Solo. He is an intellectual as well as an adventurer. (And by the way, archaeologists like him are not quite as unlikely as you might think; I interviewed one for a children's book - no secret lost Arks, but plenty of adventures that made me nickname him Indiana Spriggs)Sue Bursztynskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09362273418897882971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-35016005150895576032016-01-06T11:22:44.385+00:002016-01-06T11:22:44.385+00:00Never got on with Dalemark, but the vain, tantrum ...Never got on with Dalemark, but the vain, tantrum throwing, purple-haired Wizard Howl, and the magnificently dressinggowned Chrestocmanci are another matter. (Though I suspect I'd heartily dislike Howl in real life.) But Thomas Cromwell? Nooooo...Emma Barneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02718171070716804800noreply@blogger.com