Social Science Creationism

[Lach72]

I wore out a copy of the original books when I was going through depression years ago. They kept me company! Thought the most recent one did a decent job of keeping the standard up too!
Matt Scudder from Lawrence Block is my favourite crime lit character.
Harry Bosch from Michael Connellys books is pretty good.
And I always read any of James Lee Burke's "Robicheaux" series.

Love Block and Burke. Connolly is great for a pulp read.

Robicheaux is that dark knight of crime fiction...great character

 

[CLUBMEDhurst]

I wore out a copy of the original books when I was going through depression years ago. They kept me company! Thought the most recent one did a decent job of keeping the standard up too!
Matt Scudder from Lawrence Block is my favourite crime lit character.
Harry Bosch from Michael Connellys books is pretty good.
And I always read any of James Lee Burke's "Robicheaux" series.

Me too. Damned Block, that's how I developed my bourbon'n'coffee jones

 

[E Shed]

Me too. Damned Block, that's how I developed my bourbon'n'coffee jones

Its a good one. Had quite a few myself in the day before I even read Block.
I got sober just before I discovered Scudder so I was barracking for him to stick it out at AA!

 

[E Shed]

Love Block and Burke. Connolly is great for a pulp read.

Robicheaux is that dark knight of crime fiction...great character

I think the first half dozen of Connolly's Bosch series were as good as anything in terms of plots and character. The fractured isolated Vietnam Vet Cop on a mission. He went downhill badly and is just phoning them in these days so its easy to forget how good the first few were. I think the series peaked at The Last Coyote and went downhill from there.
Perhaps not quite in Blocks league for pure literature on the human condition or James Lee Burke's almost psychedelic streams of prose but about as good as pure crime writing gets.
George Pelecanos punches out some good stuff too. Of course everyone knows him for The Wire now but his early stuff is brilliant.

 

[saintal]

CM Burns.

 

[RedmanWasHere]

Ms. Frizzle.

She was a bigger hippie than Phoebe from Friends.

 

[TheSituation23]

Ms. Frizzle.

She was a bigger hippie than Phoebe from Friends.

 

[CLUBMEDhurst]

Love Block and Burke. Connolly is great for a pulp read.

Robicheaux is that dark knight of crime fiction...great character

My fave crime fiction characters:

Parker: Richard Stark's (Don Westlake) professional crook and anti-hero. The beginning and the end when it comes to hjardboiled characters.
Lou Ford: Jim Thompson's chilling psychopath.
Nick Stefanos: George Pelecanos' alter ego. Cooler than **** Greek-American, loose P.I.
Easy Rawlings: Walter Moseley's finest creation

Oh, and of course Marlowe. Always lonely, never gave up

 

[Hatchy1992]

In no particular order -
Joey - Friends
Kramer - Seinfeld
Jules Winfield - Pulp Fiction
Carl Johnson - GTA SA

 

[Gough]

Leisure Suit Larry.

 

[Howard Littlejohn]

Leisure Suit Larry.

Manila_Playa87
Has to be a fictional character surely.

 

[Neese]

Blues Brothers
Frank N Furter - only Tim Curry though
Pods from Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Triffids - both from John Wyndham's novel and the 1980s miniseries scared the shit out of me
Flying monkeys from the Wizard of Oz
Olive and Grandpa from Little Miss Sunshine
David Bowie as Jareth in Labyrinth
ET
Clown from IT
Mad Max
The Bride from Kill Bill

 

[Simon_Nesbit]

Leisure Suit Larry.

and for that matter...

 

[getthefooty]

Brad Pitt's portrayal of Jesse James from The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford was pretty damn good.

 

[Hendersloane]

Jaws

 

[Private Hudson]

This thread should begin and end at Randy Marsh !

 

[placebo]

Brad Pitt's portrayal of Jesse James from The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford was pretty damn good.

Casey Affleck's portrayal of Robert Ford is just as good I reckon!

 

[half_back_flank]

Kenny Powers.

 

[MaddAdam]

Magwitch
Omar Little
Winston Smith
Romeo and Juliet

 

[Hap Hapablap]

John Howard's character was actually a pretty genius creation, from second rate suburban lawyer, to third rate treasurer, to revered (in some quarters) former PM. You can't make shit like that up.

not to mention he lived with mumsy until he was 33. cute

 

[Howard Littlejohn]

 

[CLUBMEDhurst]

Great character Gene, as unreconstructed as any macho Manc.

This guy was my fave character in "The Wire"

You come at The King You better not miss

And the tragi-comic brilliance of Hank "Hey Now" Kingsley on The Larry Sanders Show

And my fave Teeve sitcom character

 

[edgie]

Always a fan of the stoic action man that goes about their work saving the world with little to no fuss

 

[PunyHumans!!!]

My favourite from 'Rome'....the killing machine Titus Pullo.

 

[Dagless]

^^^Couldn't pick a more boring character from the show, as much as I liked him.