I just finished reading Khaled Hosseini's "A Thousand Splendid Suns" a few days ago (this isn't meant to be a review, but it was wonderful, and since Afghanistan seems to be staying front-and-center in America's foreign policy, it is almost required reading to get it about what actually has gone on in their country for the past 30 years).
One of the characters, Mariam, has really stayed with me, in a way that not too many characters do. I haven't been able to get her off my mind for several days, and I think I'll be rereading passages over time, just to revisit her. I won't go into too many details, for those of you who plan on reading it, but she definitely wormed her way into my brain and is bouncing around in there and plans to stay awhile.
I've been thinking about other characters that have had this effect on me, and there really aren't a lot that I come up with. Atticus Finch for sure (and maybe Scout, and for that matter just about everyone in "To Kill a Mockingbird"), Arkady Renko and Irina Asanova of the "Gorky Park" novels, maybe Gus McCrae of "Lonesome Dove" and Paul Atreides of "Dune". If there are others, I'm forgetting them at the moment.
So I'm curious - what characters in novels have had similar impacts on you?
Sam
One of the characters, Mariam, has really stayed with me, in a way that not too many characters do. I haven't been able to get her off my mind for several days, and I think I'll be rereading passages over time, just to revisit her. I won't go into too many details, for those of you who plan on reading it, but she definitely wormed her way into my brain and is bouncing around in there and plans to stay awhile.
I've been thinking about other characters that have had this effect on me, and there really aren't a lot that I come up with. Atticus Finch for sure (and maybe Scout, and for that matter just about everyone in "To Kill a Mockingbird"), Arkady Renko and Irina Asanova of the "Gorky Park" novels, maybe Gus McCrae of "Lonesome Dove" and Paul Atreides of "Dune". If there are others, I'm forgetting them at the moment.
So I'm curious - what characters in novels have had similar impacts on you?
Sam