This week's theme is: Top Ten Characters Who X (you fill in the blank -- examples: piss me off, are the popular kids, are bookish, would be my bff, that stole my heart, etc. etc.)
I decided to go with characters I would NEVER want to trade places. Here we go!
1. Nick Dunne in Gone Girl: Everyone thinks you killed your wife. You don't exactly look innocent. What could have happened to make everything turn out so messed up?
2. Jasper Dent in I Hunt Killers: Talk about childhood issue, try being raised by a serial killer.
3. Alan Christophersen in The Walk: He loses everything in a matter of weeks. Everything.
4. Amber Appleton in Sorta Like A Rock Star: As if being homeless isn't enough, Amber's life take a turn for the worst.
5. Clay Jensen in Thirteen Reasons Why: After the girl he has always had a crush on commits suicide, a box of tapes arrives on his home with her voice, telling him and others the 13 reasons why she killed herself. He goes on an emotionally killer tour of the town he is raised in to find out his role in the death. I think it was undeserving on his part and think it was mean and selfish for her to have done that to him.
6. Yossarian in Catch 22: All he wants is to go home, but there's a catch.
8. Oliver Twist in Oliver Twist: Trying to survive on the streets of London, alone and young.
9. Mark Sway in The Client: Trying to save a life, Mark learns the location of a body that the mob is trying to hide. With the FBI wanting to know the location, and the mob threatening to kill him, Mark is an 111-year-old boy with a very big problem.
10. Hazel Lancaster in The Fault in Our Stars: As if having cancer isn't bad enough, how about a boyfriend who also has cancer?
Great choice for this week's Top Ten! I definitely wouldn't want to trade places with Nick from Gone Girl or Hazel from The Fault In Our Stars.
ReplyDeleteThanks! I am glad you agree!
DeleteGreat idea for this week's list.
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DeleteNo kidding on all of these! Great topic this week!
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Thanks! I probably could have listed quite a few more. Man, some authors are just cruel to their characters. :)
DeleteI love this idea - I can think plenty of characters with whom I wouldn't want to trade places with. It's great to read about these characters, but sometimes you just can't help yourself but to think how lucky you're not to be in their position. Great list! :)
ReplyDeleteThanks! I totally agree. The situations they end up in are terrible!
DeleteHaa haa great topic of choice Tiffany! I read Gone Girl and yea I agree! I read all three of Flynn's books and I wouldn't want to trade places with any of those main characters! Geeezzzzzz lol
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Michelle @ Book Hangovers Blabs Books
I haven't read the other books by Flynn yet. Gone Girl was so masterfully written, but so EVIL, I need to brace myself before reading another!
DeleteThis is a great topic and I agree with all your choices. I wouldn't want to trade places with Furious Jones from Furious Jones and the Assassin's Secret, Nathan in Half Bad, or Billy and Jillian from The Good Crooks books
ReplyDeleteOoooo, I will have to check those out. Thanks Caitie!
DeleteI love what you did here!! :o) I agree, i would never want to be in hazels spot. :( so much sadness. And it's still fresh in my mind cause I read it recently. lol
ReplyDeleteGreat topic this week! Poor Nick Dunne, I definitely wouldn't want to trade places with him lol. I also 100% agree about Clay, I love that book but her reasons were kind of really bad for the most part, he definitely didn't deserve what she did to him. I definitely wouldn't want to trade places with Hazel either :'( Here's my TTT :)
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