Cool Character Names...

[theSoulfulMofo]

So this thread is dedicated to the cool, funky hip names of unforgettable literary characters...

The ones that immediately come to my mind are:

Yossarian
Gnossos Pappadopoulis
Oedipa Maas
Humbert Humbert
Major Major Major Major
Mucho Maas
Pierce Inverarity
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern
Henry Chinaski









Yossarian Lives!

 

[foray]

Humbert Humbert
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern (funny how these caught on)

Mrs Dalloway
Vronsky (from Anna Karenina)
Dolores Haze
Yorick

 

[IWasBored]

phineas! suh....did he have a last name? in john knowles a seperate peace? i don't remember hims having a last name...

 

[arw]

I Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard. Good stuff.

 

[meegannie]

Thomas Pynchon

 

[theSoulfulMofo]

Thomas Pynchon

 

[u2popmofo]

Boo Radley

 

[AdamsPoptart]

Big Pussy from the t.v. show The Sopranos.Who in the world would want the name.

 

[yertle-the-turtle]

david copperfield

when i was younger i used to confuse him with the magician with the bad hair.

keith talent
nicola six

 

[beegee]

raoul duke
doctor gonzo

 

[PaleBlueDot]

Pip!! That name rocks.

 

[theSoulfulMofo]

Big Pussy from the t.v. show The Sopranos.Who in the world would want the name.

Mr. Pussy?

 

[WildeIrish796]

I always like tha names in Salmon Rushdie books. My favorite name is Vina Apsara from The Ground Beneath Her Feet
*loveths that book**is quite partial to the song as well*

 

[ICRED]

Kilgore Trout

 

[hippy]

I always love the names

Anne (with an "e"!) Shirley and Gilbert Blythe (from Anne of Green Gables)

And the name Aslan (from Chronicles of Narnia)

But you can't beat Russian novels for strange names...

 

[theSoulfulMofo]

Raskolnikov

 

[IWasBored]

akaky akakiyevich