Worst Protagonists (Lead Character) in Novels
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For those of you who read a ton, who is the worst protagonist and from which book is she/he? I'd have to say Bella Swan...God, what a simpering, useless character.
you stole the words right out of my mouth. i'd say BELLA EFFING SWAN in the book except the movie version totally stole the book's thunder in terms of awfulness. kristen stewart, QUIT YOUR DAY JOB. other than that, all is well0 -
I'll say Emma, from . . . . . Emma. I'm reading it right now, and I just want to smack the little twit.
this honestly surprises me. while it's true, she's no Lizzy Bennett, i found her delightful. she's an airhead, but she owns it.0 -
Okay, okay. Bella bashing aside, who else sucks? Holden Caulfield bugs me, but I'm pulling that from memory (been a long time since last read)
First my favorites: Gilly (The great gilly hopkins), Dewey (green glass sea) Joey Pigza (Joey pigza swallowed the key)
Clearly I've taught 5th (and 8th for that matter) grade language arts.
OH MY GOSH. I have it. I HATE the protagonist of Go Ask Alice. HATE. (C'mon Beatrix Sparks... You've anonymously published like 7 books of these supposed diaries. Stupid cautionary tales... I also take this as a total jab at fiction - to me it says that for anything to be meaningful it must be true).0 -
Angel in "Unleashing Angel" - gay lit that the cover made sound good. it was TERRIBLE and i wanted to punch Angel in his throat.0
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LOL, I have to laugh at all the Bella bashing. All my friends (mind you in their 30s) loved the Twilight series. I forced my way through the first 2 books and quit in the middle of the 3rd. I couldn't handle it any longer.0
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Okay, okay. Bella bashing aside, who else sucks? Holden Caulfield bugs me, but I'm pulling that from memory (been a long time since last read)
First my favorites: Gilly (The great gilly hopkins), Dewey (green glass sea) Joey Pigza (Joey pigza swallowed the key)
Clearly I've taught 5th (and 8th for that matter) grade language arts.
OH MY GOSH. I have it. I HATE the protagonist of Go Ask Alice. HATE. (C'mon Beatrix Sparks... You've anonymously published like 7 books of these supposed diaries. Stupid cautionary tales... I also take this as a total jab at fiction - to me it says that for anything to be meaningful it must be true).
I can summarize Holden Caufield in The Catcher In The Rye:
I cant stand phonies so I sat in this park and smoked a bunch of cigarettes because everyone are phonies.
The End.0 -
Catherine and Heathcliff, Wuthering Heights. Just.... Everything about them.0
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Catherine and Heathcliff, Wuthering Heights. Just.... Everything about them.
Good call!!0 -
BELLA = AWFUL
But I never really liked Holden Caulfield either. He pissed me off as a kid.0 -
Okay, okay. Bella bashing aside, who else sucks? Holden Caulfield bugs me, but I'm pulling that from memory (been a long time since last read)
First my favorites: Gilly (The great gilly hopkins), Dewey (green glass sea) Joey Pigza (Joey pigza swallowed the key)
Clearly I've taught 5th (and 8th for that matter) grade language arts.
OH MY GOSH. I have it. I HATE the protagonist of Go Ask Alice. HATE. (C'mon Beatrix Sparks... You've anonymously published like 7 books of these supposed diaries. Stupid cautionary tales... I also take this as a total jab at fiction - to me it says that for anything to be meaningful it must be true).
I can summarize Holden Caufield in The Catcher In The Rye:
I cant stand phonies so I sat in this park and smoked a bunch of cigarettes because everyone are phonies.
The End.
And inspire psychopaths to kill John Lennon0 -
Catherine and Heathcliff, Wuthering Heights. Just.... Everything about them.
Hear, hear!
RE Bella Swan, she was even reading books with awful female leads (Romeo&Juliet and Wuthering Heights).0 -
Humbert Humbert from Lolita, closely followed by Ignatius J. Reilly from A confederacy of Dunces. No redeeming qualities in either character, although IJR is funny, at least.0
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Catherine and Heathcliff, Wuthering Heights. Just.... Everything about them.
the bronte sisters only existed to make ppl forever link suicidal depression and "twu wub" oh, sure, the greeks started it - good try, Medea - but the Brontes PERFECTED it.
i once read a "dating game" fic where the 3 batchelors were Heathcliff, Edward Rochester, and Mr Darcy. it was hysterical.
"to all the batchelors: what are your worst qualities?"
heathcliff: "drunken insanity and murderous tendancies"
Rochester: "bigomy, unlawful imprisonment and insanity"
Darcy: "... i can be a bit judgemental"0 -
Holden Caufield, what a whiny, pretentious little turd.
Great novel though.0 -
Bella Swan
Holden Caulfield
Charles Darnay (kind of a lead)
Esther Summerson
Romeo and Juliet
Probably many more. I'm thinking.
Edited to add:
Hester Prynne
Esther Greenwood0 -
Well, it's a novel and movie, but my vote goes to .....Anakin Skywalker. Whiney and dumb. He's supposed to be the most cunning and powerful Jedi in history, and tricked easier than a 5 year old by the emperor.
Emperor "Hey, your lady friend is sick and will die if you don't turn to the dark side"
Anakin "Ok". I guess they don't have MRI or CAT scans in the future.
And way to go from being some what normal to killing children in about 5 seconds. Way to build up to being evil.0 -
Seriously? All this hatred on 'Twilight'? There's a host of poorly-contrived protagonists. Bella has nothing on Kelsey from "A Lump in the Middle".
Never, in all of the books I have read, has there been a more pathetic female protagonist.
Essentially, she whines the entire time about being a middle child (two loving parents, sisters who act sisterly, enough cash to own a beach house...). Meanwhile, lying about her age to a slightly older kid (15 years, while she's 13) for no other reason than 'he's cute, and being 2 years older makes such a difference in his opinion of me...'. And it's all because she 'needs' male attention. It was a painful read. I couldn't make it through the whole book.0 -
Humbert Humbert from Lolita, closely followed by Ignatius J. Reilly from A confederacy of Dunces. No redeeming qualities in either character, although IJR is funny, at least.0
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Bella is top pick, but... Scarlett O'Hara.
Yes, she faced things she never thought she'd have to face, and did things she never thought she'd do, and as God as her witness, she never went hungry again, but... another brainless twit with screwed up ideas about love and relationships. And over ASHLEY? Barf!!!
Mammy and Belle Watling, on the other hand... now THEY were some tough women!0
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