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Robynmarie
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Username: Robynmarie
Post Number: 820
Registered: 04-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, October 20, 2008 - 02:54 pm: | 
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I ran across this question on journals.com and the responses were pretty funny and fascinating.
My Favorite Fictional Character: Easy Rawlins Walter Mosley's working class hero
My Least favorite character: Celie from The Color Purple |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 12980
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, October 20, 2008 - 04:20 pm: |
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Thinking... |
Crystal
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Username: Crystal
Post Number: 458
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, October 20, 2008 - 05:15 pm: |
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Favorite: King Tremaine - in Guy Johnson's Standing at the Scratch Line. I read this years ago and he's still my favorite.
Least Favorite [right now]: Roselie in Maryse Conde's The Story of the Cannibal Woman. I just wanted to shake her and yell "wake up woman!". |
Robynmarie
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Username: Robynmarie
Post Number: 822
Registered: 04-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, October 20, 2008 - 08:54 pm: |
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I loved King Tremaine, what a powerful patriarch.
Makes me want to read SATSL again.
Cannibal Woman? Sounds interesting. What is the storyline?
Just remembered another least fave charater: homegirl from A Secret Life of Bees. |
Crystal
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Username: Crystal
Post Number: 459
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, October 21, 2008 - 12:23 pm: |
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Hey Robynmarie! Here's part of my blurb from the "what are you reading" post:
The Story of the Cannibal Woman by Maryse Conde – set in currentish South Africa the story of a black woman born in Guadeloupe and her white English/French long-time lover and their travels to various countries and tribulations as an interracial couple.
I posted more but I don't want to spoil it for you in case you want to read it but I will say it pissed me off! |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 12984
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, October 21, 2008 - 01:49 pm: |
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One of my least favorite fictional characters was Winter Santiaga, the female protagonist in Sista Soulja's "The Coldest Winter Ever". She was so materialistic and callous!
I'm still delving into my memory bank trying to come up with a favorite character who stood out in my mind. The irrepressible Janie in "Their Eyes Were Watching God" would be a good candidate because of her emblematic status in the emerging influence of feminist literature. But, on another level, I wasn't overhwlemed by her. Humm. Thinking... |
Robynmarie
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Username: Robynmarie
Post Number: 824
Registered: 04-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, October 21, 2008 - 02:04 pm: |
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Crystal-read your review of "Cannibal". Very interesting. It must be a trend in fiction, this white man/black woman thang. I started but did not finish "Room A"(I think that's the title) which featured a Nigerian woman married to a Scot and their twin daughters.
Cynique-Janie is one of my all time favorites. I should not have watched the TV version of TEWWG. Halle Berry kinda ruined it for me. I saw Janie as more Angela Bassett than Halle Berry. I love Angela has the fire dragon in "Waiting to Exhale." LOL |
Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 7488
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, October 25, 2008 - 11:05 am: |
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My favorite fictional character--Cynique.
My least favorite fictional character---Cynique.
Go figure. |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 12992
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, October 25, 2008 - 11:51 am: |
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Nothing baffling about your dilemma, crissy. This is typical behavior for dysfunctional schzoids like you. |
Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 7495
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, October 25, 2008 - 11:54 am: |
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I quote--for the umpteenth time, Walt Whitman.
Did I contradict myself?
Very well, I contradict myself.
I contain multitudes.
Contemplate all that on the Tree of Woe. |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 12994
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 1 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, October 25, 2008 - 12:03 pm: |
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Is this what the voices in your head say to you?? |
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