The $100 Question: Tell Dawn from This Woman's Work About Your First Literary Crush

tnshadylady wrote: "I researched Dorothy Dunnett a bit and found out that in her mind, if anyone were to play Francis Crawford, Master of Lymond, in a movie, it would have to be a young Peter O'Toole. "

Dunnett wasn't quite so emphatic. When asked this question she generally said that a young Peter O'Toole was a suggestion that had been made. But his was the only name that she ever mentioned as far as I know. Personally I think O'Toole would have been pretty perfect in the role - I can't think of anyone else as good.

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Probably Noah and Allie from The Notebook. I still get chills rereading it.

Shel silverstein, I love his books they are so so good, still my favorites today, I love the imagination.

mine was probably Garfield

My first literary love, in a family sort of way, was Laura Ingalls

My first literary crush was Holden Caufield from Catcher in the Rye.

Mine is Dr. Suess...I loved his books

Ew! Boys were disgusting...until I read Pride and Prejudice. Mr. Darcy stole my heart at a very young age!

i don't know if he was my first, but there was a crush on louis of anne rice's vampire chronicles

Mine was Heathcliff. I'd actually "swoon" over him.

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Mine would have to be Stephan King. I thought anyone who could come up with those stories and plots and still keep me hanging on had to be the most super wonderful person ever. Though I have moved on I still love all of his work.

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I don't think I ever had a literary crush, I just wanted the opportunities or lives of characters. I remember as a young child reading a story about a magic pan that would refill with brownies and as a kid I desired such a pan!

Dr. Suess was my first literary love and now my children love his books

The only books I had access to were my mothers and she was a big mystery fan. So my first literary love was Perry Mason. I was quite jealous of Della Street tho. ;-)

No one I can think of so I will say Yertle the Turtle! LOL I don't know. I read lots of biographies when I was a kid but never had a crush on anyone.

No one I can think of so I will say Yertle the Turtle! LOL I don't know. I read lots of biographies when I was a kid but never had a crush on anyone.

In my mind, all the Prince Charmings in books were the same guy. I'd daydream of a man that looked like Donnie Osmond (Hey, I was 5, this was the 70's) would come to my bedroom window, riding his white steed and whisk me away to "Happily Ever After."

Honestly I've never really read that type of books, I prefer fantasy stuff and they usually don't involve stuff like that...However, I recently read The Vampire Diaries and I can say Damon is one of my biggest crushes of all time, he is amazing and I think about him way too much cause he's not even real!

I fell madly in love with Robin Hood, King Arthur (and by extension all the knights, any knights), and Dracula. Also Alec Ramsey from the Black Stallion books... but I may have been in love with his horse, and the boy was necessary baggage. ;-)

I don't recall one- I was never overly into the "teen heartthrobs" either. Just didn't occur to me. LOL

Love the wit and humor of Dr Seuss though, if I have to pick something.

I fell in love love love with Karana in Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell.

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Father Ralph from The Thorn Birds. That's what I get for being raised Catholic I guess. =)

I honestly can't remember ever having a crush on a character from a book. I've read so many that I can't remember people from books that I read last week. lol Right now I'm liking Dimitri from The Vampire Academy books.

Dr. Suess for sure!

liked all the hardy boys

I know there have to have been a few crushes for me, since I've always been a bit of a bookworm, but the only one that is really sticking out to me in Logan Bruno from the Baby-sitters Club series. He had that southern accent, he was cute yet modest, AND when his girlfriend, Mary-Anne, member of the Baby-Sitters club wanted to change her appearance int something more wild and interesting he told her that she was perfect the way she was, and that was why he liked her so much. SWOON. Sigh, Logan where are you? Give me a call, will ya? ;)

The Graduate...Benjamin Braddock. I was a preteen when The Graduate came out. To us preteen girls reading The Graduate seemed to be really mature. garrettsambo@aol.com

The first books I remember loving were the Flowers in the Attic series.

Why Dick and Jane of course! They taught me to read.

I went through a DH Lawrence phase as a teen, wherein I imagined all of the male characters as just being incarnations of the mysterious author himself. They were all also complete jerks! What a bad introduction to what to expect from men!

Absolutely loved the Hardy Boys...

I liked Laurie from Little Women. I was always disappointed that Jo didn't end up with him.

I didn't have one. My parents did care if I read or not so I didn't really get into reading until I got older.

I loved the sweet valley high series

FIRST AUTHER I FELL FOR AND FOLLOWED WAS VICTORIA HOLT IN JR HIGH

Rochester from "Jane Eyre" -- probably not the most conventional choice, but I always have been drawn to flawed, dark, but ultimately sympathetic and complex characters!

The hardy boys, almonzo wilder

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I'd have to say my first literary crush was Henry Huggins, first from his own series by Beverly Cleary and then from the Ramona Quimby series. He was definitely all boy, and a good dog owner, too! ;)

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until 7th grade... Then it was Jonas, the main character in The Giver by Lois Lowry

I think my first literary crush was Huck Finn. I envied that he was able to go any place he wanted and never get in trouble.

I remember reading a lot of Mark Twain around the age of 10 during the 2 weeks I was grounded for not telling my Mom I was going to a friends house for the afternoon.

If I can recall back correctly I guess it would be Frank Hardy- The Hardy Boys

The cat burglar hero from "Catspaw" by Anne Stuart. In my mind he looked just like Pierce Brosnan (my TV crush). I've been intrigued by many literary leading men but Blackheart stays close to my heart.

The only literary love I've ever had was J.D. Salinger.

from the Chronicles of Narnia

Man this one is tough for me! Growing up I read so many books - mostly fantasy - so its hard for me to decide! My top 2 would have to be Mercedes Lackey (The Last Herald Mage Trilogy being the first series I read by her and Vows & Honor being my favorite) and David Eddings (The Belgariad series). Mercedes Lackey wrote stories of such incredible comradery and friendship that while I was a kid, growing up as a military brat that couldn't make any long-lasting friendships, I didn't feel like I was unknowing of what they were like.

David Eddings wrote the first series of books I immersed myself in though. Living a life of adventure and magic through his novels was truly possible.

It took me awhile to remember, but my first literary crush was Jim, Trixie Belden's boyfriend. Unless you count the Prince from Cinderella, which I really don't, because all he was was a means to an end. I mean, what girl doesn't want to be a princess?

friday, from the book of the same name by robert heinlein

every horse in every horse story in the library. As for human literary characters, I would have to say Robin Hood.