Subject: Fwd: The 100 list
From: Winnie (ahbingall@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Apr 03 2002 - 08:46:42 EST
Chris,
if you haven't already seen the full list of 100...
winnie
>
> BOOK March/April 2002 (pg.39-45)
> ***************************************************
> 1. Jay Gatsby--Social climber from The Great Gatsby
> (1925)by F. Scott Fitzgerald
> 2. Holden Caulfied--Prep-school dropout from The
> Catcher in the Rye (1951) by J.D. Salinger
> 3. Humbert Humbert--Licentious professor in Lolita
> (1955)by Vladimir Nabokov
> 4. Leopold Bloom--Ad canvasser from Ulysses (1922)
> by
> James Joyce
> 5. Rabbit Angstrom--Washed-up high school basketball
> star from Rabbit,Run (1960) and other novels by John
> Updike
> 6. Sherlock Holmes--Legendary detective from The
> Hound
> of the Baskervilles (1902) and other books by Sir
> Arthur Conan Doyle
> 7. Atticus Finch--Right-minded lawyer from To Kill a
> Mockingbird (1960) by Harper Lee
> 8. Molly Bloom--Singer from Ulysses (1922) by James
> Joyce
> 9. Stephen Dedalus--Writer in Portrait of the Artist
> as a Young Man (1916) by James Joyce
> 10. Lily Bart--Failing socialite from The House of
> Mirth (1905) by Edith Wharton
> 11. Holly Golightly--Call girl from Breakfast at
> Tiffany's (1958) by Truman Capote
> 12. Gregor Samsa--Young man who turns into a giant
> insect in The Metamorphosis (1915) by Franz Kafka
> 13. The Invisible Man--Unnamed factory worker/social
> reformer from Invisible Man (1952) by Ralph Ellison
> 14. Lolita--High school nymphet and object of
> Humbert
> Humbert's lecherous advances in Lolita (1955) by
> Vladimir Nabokov
> 15. Aureliano Buendia--Colonel from One Hundred
> Years
> of Solitude (1967) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
> 16. Clarissa Dalloway--Party planner from Mrs.
> Dalloway (1925) by Virginia Woolf
> 17. Ignatius Reilly--Hot dog vendor and gassy
> malcontent in A Confederacy of Dunces (1980) by John
> Kennedy Toole
> 18. George Smiley--Master spy from Tinker, Tailor,
> Soldier, Spy (1974) by John LeCarre
> 19. Mrs. Ramsay--Philosopher's wife and mother of
> eight from To the Lighthouse (1927) by Viginia Woolf
> 20. Bigger Thomas--Chauffeur and murderer from
> Native
> Son (1940) by Richard Wright
> 21. Nick Adams--Ernest Hemingway's alter ego in In
> Our
> Time (1925) by Ernest Hemingway
> 22. Yossarian--Fighter pilot from Catch-22 (1961) by
> Joseph Heller
> 23. Scarlett O'Hara--Southern belle and wife of
> Rhett
> Butler in Gone With the Wind (1936) by Margaret
> Mitchell
> 24. Scout Finch--Young narrator of To Kill a
> Mockingbird (1960) by Harper Lee
> 25. Philip Marlowe--Private detective from The Big
> Sleep (1939) by Raymond Chandler
> 26. Kurtz--Maniacal ivory trader from Heart of
> Darkness (1902) by Joseph Conrad
> 27. Stevens--Butler from The Remains of the Day
> (1989)
> by Kazuo Ishiguro
> 28. Cosimo Piovasco di Rondo--Tree-climbing nobleman
> from The Baron in the Trees (1957) by Italo Calvino
> 29. Winnie-the-Pooh--Honey-obsessed bear from
> Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) by A.A. Milne
> 30. Oskar Matzerath--Midget drummer from The Tin
> Drum
> (1959) by Gunter Grass
> 31. Hazel Motes--Preacher from Wise Blood (1952) by
> Flannery O'Connor
> 32. Alex Portnoy--Neurotic and chronic masturbator
> from Portnoy's Complaint (1969) By Philip Roth
> 33. Binx Bolling--Stockbroker from The Moviegoer
> (1961) by Walker Percy
> 34. Sebastian Flyte--Oxford-educated alcoholic from
> Brideshead Revisited (1945) by Evelyn Waugh
> 35. Jeeves--Gentlemen's valet in My Man Jeeves
> (1919)
> by P.G. Wodehouse
> 36. Eugene Henderson--Misfit millionaire from
> Henderson the Rain King (1959) by Saul Bellow
> 37. Marcel--Consumer of madeleines and purveyor of
> memories in Remembrance of Things Past (1913-1927)
> by
> Marcel Proust
> 38. Toad--Technology-obsessed amphibian from The
> Wind
> in the Willows (1908) by Kenneth Grahame
> 39. The Cat in the Hat--All-around troublemaker from
> The Cat in the Hat (1955) by Dr. Seuss
> 40. Peter Pan--Eternal youth/flyboy from The Little
> White Bird (1902) and other books by J.M. Barrie
> 41. Augustus McCrae--Retired Texas Ranger in
> Lonesome
> Dove (1985) by Larry McMurtry
> 42. Sam Spade--Private eye from The Maltese Falcon
> (1930) by Dashiell Hammett
> 43. Judge Holden--Albino outlaw in Blood Meridian
> (1985) by Cormac McCarthy
> 44. Willie Stark--Small-time Louisiana politician
> who
> becomes governor in All the King's Men (1946) by
> Robert Penn Warren
> 45. Stephen Maturin--Ship's surgeon and spy from
> Master and Commander (1969) and other novels by
> Patrick O'Brian
> 46. The Little Prince--Interplanetary philosopher in
> The Little Prince (1943) by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
> 47. Santiago--Seemingly Christlike fisherman in The
> Old Man and the Sea (1952) by Ernest Hemingway
> 48. Jean Brodie--Schoolmistress from The Prime of
> Miss
> Jean Brodie (1961) by Muriel Spark
> 49. The Whiskey Priest--Priest on the lam in The
> Power
> and the Glory (1940) by Graham Greene
> 50. Neddy Merrill--Suburban swimmer/alcoholic from
> teh
> short story "The Swimmer" (1964) by John Cheever
> 51. Sula Peace--Seductress and nonconformist from
> Sula
> (1973) by Toni Morrison
> 52. Meursault--Existentially minded murderer from
> The
> Stranger (1942) by Albert Camus
> 53. Jake Barnes--Impotent journalist from The Sun
> Also
> Rises (1926) by Ernest Hemingway
> 54. Pheobe Caulfield--Holden Caulfield's younger
> sister in The Catcher in the Rye (1951) by J.D.
> Salinger
> 55. Janie Crawford--Farmhand and survivor in Their
> Eyes Were Watching God (1937) by Zora Neale Hurston
> 56. Antonia Shimerda--Pioneering matriarch of My
> Antonia (1918) by Willa Cather
> 57. Grendel--Monster in Grendel (1971) by John
> Gardner
> 58. Gulley Jimson--Artist/criminal from The Horse's
> Mouth (1944) by Joyce Cary
> 59. Big Brother--All-seeing presence in 1984 (1949)
> by
> George Orwell
> 60. Tom Ripley--Impersonator/killer from The
> Talented
> Mr. Ripley (1955) by Patricia Highsmith
> 61. Seymour Glass--Chronically depressed genius from
> Nine Stories (1953) and other works by J.D. Salinger
> 62. Dean Moriarty-Car thief and hipster from On the
> Road (1957) by Jack Kerouac
> 63. Charlotte--Motherly spider from Charlotte's Web
> (1952) by E.B. White
> 64. T.S. Garp--Writer/wrestler in The World
> According
> to Garp (1978) by John Irving
> 65. Nick and Nora Charles--High-society
> crime-solving
> duo in The Thin Man (1934)
> 66. James Bond--Martini-swilling secret agent from
> Casino Royale (1953) and other novels by Ian Fleming
> 67. Mr. Bridge--Lawyer from Mrs. Bridge (1959) and
> Mr.
> Bridge (1969) by Evan S. Connell Jr.
> 68. Geoffrey Firmin--Alcoholic in Under the Volcano
> (1947) by Malcolm Lowry
> 69. Benjy--Idiot in The Sound and the Fury (1929) by
> William Faulkner
> 70. Charles Kinbote--Scholar/mad annotator/lunatic
> from Pale Fire (1962)
> 71. Mary Katherine Blackwood--Demented shut-in and
> sleuth from We Have Always Lived in the Castle
> (1962)
> by Shirley Jackson
> 72. Charles Ryder--Architectural artist from
> Brideshead Revisited (1945) by Evelyn Waugh
> 73. Claudine--Teenage vamp from Claudine at School
> (1900) and other books by Colette
> 74. Florentino Ariza--President of the Caribbean
> River
> Company from Love in the Time of Cholera (1985) by
> Gabriel Garcia Marquez
> 75. George Follansee Babbitt--Real estate broker in
> Babbitt (1922) by Sinclair Lewis
> 76. Christopher Tietjens--Military officer and
> disillusioned patriot from Parade's End (1924-28) by
> Ford Madox Ford
> 77. Frankie Addams--Envious sister in The Member of
> the Wedding (1946) by Carson McCullers
> 78. The Dog of Tears--Mystical hound who dries the
> tears of the afflicted in Blindness (1995) by Jose
> Saramago
> 79. Tarzan--Apeman from Tarzan of the Apes (1914) by
> Edgar Rice Burroughs
> 80. Nathan Zuckerman--Novelist in My Life as a Man
> (1979) and numerous other novels by Philip Roth
> 81. Arthur "Boo" Radley--Heroic hermit from To Kill
> a
> Mockingbird (1960) by Harper Lee
> 82. Henry Chinaski--Foul-mouthed alter ego in Post
> Office (1971) and other works by Charles Bukowski
> 83. Joseph K.--Bank functionary from The Trial
> (1925)
> by Franz Kafka
> 84. Yuri Zhivago--Physician/poet from Dr. Zhivago
> (1957) by Boris Pasternak
> 85. Harry Potter--Boy wizard from Harry Potter and
> the
> Socerer's Stone (1998) by J.K. Rowling
> 86. Hana--Nurse in The English Patient (1992)
> by Michael Ondaatje
> 87. Margaret Schlegel--Sister of Helen Schlegel and
> wife of Henry Wilcox in Howards End (1910) by E.M.
> Forster
> 88. Jim Dixon--Hapless English professor in Lucky
> Jim
> (1954) by Kingsley Amis
> 89. Maurice Bendrix--Novelist in The End of the
> Affair
> (1951) by Graham Greene
> 90. Lennie Small--Mentally challenged farmworker in
> Of
> Mice and Men (1937) by John Steinbeck
> 91. Mr. Biswas--Journalist from A House for Mr.
> Biswas
> (1961) by V.S. Naipaul
> 92. Alden Pyle--CIA operative/dupe in The Quiet
> American (1955) by Graham Greene
> 93. Kimbal "Kim" O'Hara--Secret agent in Kim (1901)
> by
> Rudyard Kipling
> 94. Newland Archer--Lovelorn lawyer from The Age of
> Innocence (1920) by Edith Wharton
> 95. Clyde Griffiths--Morally flawed social climber
> in
> An American Tragedy (1925) by Theodore Dreiser
> 96. Eeyore--Moody donkey in Winnie-the-Pooh (1926)
> by
> A.A. Milne
> 97. Quentin Compson--Suicidal Harvard student in The
> Sound and the Fury (1929) by William Faulkner
> 98. Charlie Marlow--Sea captain in Heart of Darkness
> (1902) by Joseph Conrad
> 99. Celie--Self-educated letter writer in The Color
> Purple (1982) by Alice Walker
> 100. Augie March--Youthful opportunist in The
> Adventures of Augie March (1953) by Saul Bellow
>
>
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Chris Kubica" <ckubica@insightbb.com>
> > > To: <bananafish@roughdraft.org>
> > > Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 1:32 PM
> > > Subject: Our Friend Holden
> > >
> > >
> > >> Y'all will appreciate this list, put together
> by
> > the "experts":
> > >>
> > >>
> http://www.bookmagazine.com/issue21/100best.shtml
> > >>
> > >> Anyone have the full list of 100?
> > >>
> > >> Sincerely,
> > >>
> > >> chris kubica
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