Has to be Lord Voldemort. Dude is badass

Captain Nemo from Jules verne masterpiece Twenty thousand leagues under the sea


Hannibal lectre from silence of the lamb from another classic authour Thomas Harris

Jane erye
Weep not child by ngogiwa ntiogu
Buhari the expired product

smileysmiles:
Noelle Page -- The other side of midnight.. Sidney Sheldon

very good book. Sidney Sheldon is a boss. May he RIP

Alex cross ( roses are red and all Alex cross series)

Pen something ( high druids of the shanara ) .. still looking for the sequel

Meredith ( vampire diaries )

sherlock Holmes ( the problem of Thor bridge)

Jake brigance ( A time to kill. Jake was a good lawyer. he helped Carl Lee family. and I love the way Grisham ended the novel)

Mine is BILBO BAGGINS .......in the Hobbit

CplusJason:
Well, these are my favourites.


Okonkwo (Things Fall Apart)



Lekoja Brown (Our Husband Has Gone Mad Again)



Odewale (The gods Are Not To Blame)



Uloko (Wedlock Of The gods)



Elesin (Death And The King Horseman)



Styles Robert (Sizwe Bansi Is Dead)

Mr Styles was the sh*t

I like Lucas Davenport from the Prey series by John Sandford

Duchessree:
Alex cross ( roses are red and all Alex cross series)

Pen something ( high druids of the shanara ) .. still looking for the sequel

Meredith ( vampire diaries )

Alex cross.... Hated cross country, the plot was set in Nigeria. The author made Lagos look ridiculous. His research was flawed.

KidsNEXTdoor:
Jane erye
Weep not child by ngogiwa ntiogu
Buhari the expired product

Jane Eyre is a good book. Read it alot

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Awesome. It makes me want to read some of them now. I think I will. Thanks.

Richiy:
Books Yay!

Harry Potter: He is memorable to me because we kinda share a similar story. No, I did not attend Hogwarts. But I know what it feels like if you survived a ghastly incident alone.

Lady Johanna of Saving Grace by Julie Garwood: She exhibited a certain strength I won't have if I were in her shoes. That book was simply hilarious.

Richard Wright's Black Boy: The trip to a time in history and a culture that was alien to mine was well appreciated. I don't think I would have survived that period if I were there.

Very succinct. Shows how much you 'feel' the character. You would do really good reviews.

Brandon Scofield and Vasili Taleniekov :Matarese circle by Robert Ludlum.
William Lowell Kane and Abel Rosnovski: Kane &Abel, Jeffrey Archer
Jason Bourne : Bourne Identity, Robert Ludlum

smileysmiles:


Alex cross.... Hated cross country, the plot was set in Nigeria. The author made Lagos look ridiculous. His research was flawed.

I have not read cross country

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Lol! No, i do not detest male characters. I think it's only natural that I would have more things in common with female characters and their struggles. And there is clearly a pattern with the heroines that I chose. But then there are also human struggles - and I understand and associate with those three male protagonists on my list - Hamlet, Howard Roark and Okonkwo.

soletar:
Mark Girland, Martin Corridon - James Hadley Chase.

Lincoln Rhyme - Jeffrey Deaver.

Bros, Malik nko? You no like?

RaggedyAnn:
People take different things away from reading novels - a good story, life philosophies, or even role models. If you're like me, you immerse yourself so deeply in a book that the ending seems like the end of the world, and leaves you a little depressed for a while. The characters seem like people you know really well, and care about. And some of them leave a lasting impression, they stay with you for a long time.

Who are the most memorable characters you've met in books and why were they impressive?

Some of mine are:

1. Ruth Mason Douglass, (These Latter Days, by Laura Kalpakian):
Even though it was only the nineteenth century, she was a woman who challenged the boundaries of the box she was put in. Maybe not as radically as her daughter Eden, who died tragically in a train wreck as she pursued her dream. I love this book (thinking about it now)! I read it so many years ago. It spans several generations, and Ruth is the the Matriarch. I sense there's going to be a pattern.


2. Kate Blackwell, (Master of the Game, by Sydney Sheldon)
Also Matriarch of her family and head of Kruger-Brent Ltd. I love her for her strength and badassness.

3. Maryann Flood, (79 Park Avenue, by Harold Robbins)
This book consists of this memorable character and my favorite genre - legal drama. Maryann Flood aka Marja Fludjinski is a tough girl who over comes sexual abuse by her step-dad (with her mother's approval), and subsequent life on the streets to build her empire. An escort business. Of course, she gets in trouble with the law, and while she's on trial, the prosecutor falls in love with her. Another strong female type.


4. Madame Bovary, (Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert)
I do not see Madame Bovary as a feminist model, but the character is very sympathetic. Like Ruth Mason Douglass, Madam Bovary is not satisfied with the options inside the proverbial box. She reads a lot of books and lives vicariously through them. She's a restless romantic soul who marries a doctor with the hope that he would open up her world. But he is a boring man, and she quickly gets bored with him. She starts a scandalous affair, hates herself for it and blames the doctor for everything. In the end she kills herself. Tragic. And shocking for the time in which the book was written.

5. Howard Roarke, (The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand)
A man of fierce integrity, who did not compromise his personal values for anything, even when he was piss poor. He won the world over in the end, and they learned to value him (his architecture). This is a philosophical novel, and it propagates the virtue of selfishness, and individualism against collectivism.

6. Lucky Santangelo, (created by Jackie Collins)
In a word: Lady Boss. And that's why I love her. But she also features in Chances, Lucky, and a host of others. She's a Mafia princess who's beautiful, smart and very glam.

7. Ifemelu, (Americanah, by Chimamanda Adichie)
I find Ifemelu very relatable and progressive. I like that she does not conform to typical standards and follows her heart in the end.

8. Dagny Taggart, (Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand)
Another uncompromisingly principled creation of the author. She propagates capitalist theories in the naturally uneven playing field.

9. Okonkwo, (Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe)
Principled character. Disgusted by his lazy father, he becomes the exact opposite. Hard worker, Quick tempered, traditionalist. Resists the change the white man brings. But kills himself in the end.

10. Hamlet, (Hamlet, by William Shakespeare)
Yes, I know this is a play but still. Hamlet is melancholic and asks the ultimate question: to be or not to be. Whether it's more dignified to live in suffering or to end that suffering by killing one's self. The whole soliloquy is awesome. And I relate to Hamlet.

Master of the game by sidney sheldon, part of the top 20 best novels have ever read.

adegeye38:

Master of the game by sidney sheldon, part of the top 20 best novels have ever read.

Absolutely true for me too.

Pato23:
Robert Langdon.
Professor Severus Snape.
Albus Dumbledore.
Sophia Neveau.
Elizerbeth Sinskey.

My fellow Dan Brown addictor!!!

bestestgirl:
Nkem in Triumph of the water lily by Ify Osamor
Roarke in JD Robb's In death series
Anne in Sleeping Beauty by Judith Michaels
Poor Ekwueme in the Concubine by Elechi Amadi

I luvd every1 in d truimph of d water lilly- Nkem, odili. nice buk. bin lukn 4 t 4 like foreva

My favorite - AMINATA DIALLO in "Someone Knows My Name" by Lawrence Hill.
Louisa Mae Cardinal in "Wish You Well" by David Baldacci
Rudy Baylor in "The Rainmaker" by John Grisham
Calder Quinlan and Arran in "I/D" by Leon Berger - this is my best novel.
and of course, Toke Makinwa in "On Becoming" by Toke Makinwa. Thanks!

Kambilli - chimamanda adichie's purple hibiscus

By the way, I'd really appreciate it if you gave me a list of very interesting novels which I could get in PDF format. Thanks!

1. Phileas Fogg ( Around the world in 80 days) 2. Sarah Crew ( A little princess)

Commander Sir Samuel Vimes of the Disc world series by Terry Pratchett

maggilove:
Okonkwo in Achebe's Things Fall Apart( a strong and disciplined man but weak like Unoka his father sometimes eg when he beat his wife in the week of peace and when he eventually committed suicide).
Lamang in Helon Habila's Measuring Time( he loves his children but doesn't show it, he doesn't accept defeat easily)
Kainene in Chimamanda Adiche's Half of a Yellow Sun( she is bad, strong, bad mouthedan hardworking and determined but unfrotunately ...).
Otis Hampton in. Isidore Okpewho's Call Me By My Rightful Name( despite all the situation and challenges he was still determined to know his root and he suceeded.)
Nneoma in Akachi Ezeigbo's Trafficked( she didn't believe she was a failure and never gave up until she achieved her aim)
Nnu Ego in Buchi Emecheta;s Joys of Motherhood( an epitome of a good mother who never reaped the fruits of her labour)
Adisa in Festus Iyayi's Violence( she struggled for survival with her husband but always got the blame for their predicament).
Koko in JP Clark's The Wives Revolt
Lakunle in Wole Soyinka's The Lion and The Jewel(he lost what he desired because he didn't support tradition and made Sidi marry the king only if he had accepted to pay the bride-price)
Piggy and Ralph in William Golding's Lord of the Flies(this is how friends should be)
Macduff in William Shakespeare's Macbeth
Portia and Nerrissa in Wiliam Shakespeare's The Merchant of Veniceboss and maid who saved portia's husband and friend)
Muthoni in Ngugi Wa Thiong'O's The River Between( she loved tradition, went against her parents wish and died doing what she wants, to her, she was fulfilled)
Efuru in Flora Nwapa's Efuru( a strong woman who accepted what life had for her)
Yaremi in Bayo Adebowale's Lonely Days(a strong and courageous woman, I love her boldness , abi na by force to re marry?)
Dede in Eddie Iroh's Without a Silver Spoon
Uche and Annie in bibijay123 Almost Perfect( they were the best, Annie especially)
Ebere and Ifeoma in bibijay123 Allen Avenue(their friendship is indescribable)
The girl in Twaci 's Diary of a nymphomaniac( this young lady didn't live the life of her own and was so unfortunate in the life her mother chose for her).
Tomi and Kelvin in bibijay123 's Twine( I love our lazy girl and Kelvin is the super saver always standing by his friends and family)
James in chipappii 's Diary of a Broke Playboy(James , that boy hhen)
And many more
I love reading.

did you study English?

Robert Langdon: Angels and Demons by Dan brown

Albus wilfric brian Dumbledore: Harry potter and the order of the Phoenix

Hermione Granger: Harry Potter and the deathly hallows by Jk rowling

Jamie Mcgregor: Master of the game by Sidney shelodon

Professor Maximilian Epper: Seven deadly Wonders by mathew reilly



These Novels are part of the best novels ever published in history. #fact

Jim Iyke and Nnamadi Kanu

Hannibal Lecter (silence of the lambs)

Jason Bourne in the Bourne Series by Robert Ludlum.

kambili in "purple hibiscus" by our very own chiamanda ngozi adichie..d book's a must read..read it like what..5 times over now

Twaci:
@maggilove

Wow! A beautiful list you've got and I'm honored to be part of it.

So you like Oma? . Most people didn't actually, they preferred Cassie.

yes I like her because she has a non-chalant mother who ruined her life.

Artemis Fowl (Eoin Colder)
Percy Jackson and all crew of the Argo II (Rick Riordan)
Carter and Sadie Kane (Rick Riordan)
Robert Langdon (Dan Brown)