Naming characters and book memes

[aimeesworld]

Mistful wrote an excellent post on character naming that got me thinking about how I name my characters.I don't name after friends, except on rare occasions that tend to be incidental (Characters called Alice crop up often, which, admittedly was inspired by Hannah's little sister). It gets awkward and I still have spasms about the story where I

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[sweet_raindrops]

I really enjoyed reading about how you name your characters. I think Bernard sounds like a good name :).

45 books, that's impressive! I like this list, I might borrow it!

[aimeesworld]

I quite like the name Bernard as well. Although it doesn't shorten well.

There are so many more on the list I regret not having read yet.

[shessuchabrat]

Why has no one read On The Road or Catch-22?
These memes make me realise how long it is since I read any Roald Dahl. I must re-read The BFG.

[aimeesworld]

I will be reading On The Road soon. It's in my American Lit course. But I tried Catch-22 and hated it.

Roald Dahl is wonderful.

[shessuchabrat]

Yeah, fair enough, I'm just surprised by how many people who have done this meme haven't read either of them, I've always thought of them both as the sort of book that everyone has read.

[aimeesworld]

I don't know, I guess it depends. At high school, reading the classics was never especially encouraged or anything - in my classes at least.

[nix_the_fish]

*steals meme*

Ooh, Noughts and Crosses is great.

[aimeesworld]

I've been meaning to read it for several years.

[annemjw]

1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
9. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë - I tried, but it's so awful.
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens - and he bores me to tears, which is unfair. Maybe one day?
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
24. Harry Potter And The

[annemjw]

Dur, I can format. Continued!:

51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
53. The Stand, Stephen King
54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
56. The BFG, Roald Dahl
57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell - booooooooooring.
59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett
66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
67. The Magus, John Fowles
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
71. Perfume, Patrick Süskind
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
74. Matilda, Roald Dahl75. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding