Day 3 of the 40 day book challenge is ‘A book with a favourite character.’
I read The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay about twenty years ago and fell completely in love with the main character, Peekay. So much so that I dreamed about him and, after I finished the book, lay on the bed crying for, um, quite a while.
I loved the book – and Peekay – so much that I’m actually scared to re-read it in case I don’t like it.
Who’s your favourite fictional character?
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One of mine has to be Andy Dufresne from “Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption” by Stephen King (made into a much more famous film of course.) Andy has just about everyone and everything stacked against him, but he fights back..
Good choice, Keris! Mine’s Atticus Finch, I think.
I haven’t read this book but I have been recommended it a few times now. I do have a copy at home so I should really make time for it.
I really, really enjoyed Bryce Courtney’s The Potato Factory. But I went to reread it a few years later and found it almost unreadable. I’m just sayin’.
I think I struggled with that one in the first place. In fact, I haven’t read any of his other books apart from Tandia (sequel to this one) and I didn’t like that much.
ps. How lazy is it that I spelled Courtenay incorrectly? Tsk, Stella.
Loved Peekay too! 🙂 (quite liked Stephen Dorff as Peekay in the film too)