Literary Crushes

[dwanollah]

Dickon from The Secret Garden. *melt* I'm working on another paper on TSG, and have just fallen in love with him all over again....

[BinkyBetsy]

Danny Dunn. ETA: When I was a kid, I mean! First of all, I love redheads, and secondly, he just seemed like he'd be so fun to have around!

[Smilla]

Okay, nobody hate me, but before he turns into a rapist, I was quite impressed by Richard Lovelace in Clarissa. Rhetorically, the man was quite smooth. That always gets me.

[monkeypants]

I'm probably going to get laughed at, but I had something of a crush on Sherlock Holmes when I was little.

There was something so masterful and powerful about his ability to figure everything out like *that*.

Now, I'm just crushing on Mr. Darcy.

[pepper67]

Not by me, monkeypants, I can totally see the attraction. Intelligent men are definitely better.

And I can see where you're coming from with Mr. Darcy too. ::sighs::

[Smilla]

Not sure if it counts as a "literary" crush, but I have a major thing for Louis Creed in King's Pet Semetary. Before he makes that, er, bad choice or two toward the end of the book. He always seemed so simple, earnest, and devoted to his family and helping other human beings. That's probably why what happens to him in the text is as horrifying as it is.

[Deleted]

I'm not sure if he's in this category but I like Neil Gaiman's Sandman/Morpheus a lot. He's quite dreamy [/pun unintentional].

Also, Heathcliff from Wuthering Heights.

Tortured souls. Aaaah...

[sexlexia]

James Alexander Malcolm MacKenzie Fraser. For a man born 'back in the day' and complete fiction to boot how come I can hear his voice so clearly? Yeow-za!

[foxyepicurean]

I'm in love with Mr. Darcy in all his incarnations (he always has Colin Firth's face and Hugh Jackman's body when I'm reading about him, though). For those of you who, like me, can't get enough Darcy, check out the deliciously tawdry "sequel" to Pride & Predjudice. It's a surprisingly engrossing guilty pleasure called Mr. Darcy Takes a Wife. Very aptly named...he "takes" his wife skillfully and often.

As a teen, I had a raging crush on Gilbert Blythe from the Anne of Green Gables books. He was so smart and funny and sweet. Swoon-worthy in a he-could-actually-be-the-boy-down-the-street kind of way. It didn't hurt that the bloke who played him in the (Canadian? PBS?) miniseries was too darling for words.

[Smilla]

Phinaeus and/or Gene from A Separate Peace. I adored everything about them: the wit, the friendship, the, er, bond...I loved them even more after reading speculation from some critics and readers that John Knowles was writing them as gay/bi/curious characters or at the very least playing up the school-boy homoeroticism in their relationship.