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I found this on my harddrive, I made it a couple of years back. There are 100 characters, and you have see how many you recognise, then post your score at the end. Kind of weird, but fun. Most serious readers don't get a score over about 30.

Famous:

1. Harry Potter
2. Bella Swan
3. James Bond
4. Gandalf
5. Tyler Durden
6. Scarlett O'Hara
7. Lolita
8. Sherlock Holmes
9. Holden Caufield
10. Alice
11. Victor Frankenstein
12. Robert Langdon

Well-known:

13. Andy Dufresne
14. Tess Durbeyfield
15. Philip Pirrip
16. Nick Carraway
17. Tenente
18. Jack Torrance
19. Ender Wiggin
20. Jean ValJean
21. Winston Smith
22. Carrie White
23. Seymour Glass
24. Grendel
25. Holly Golightly
26. Paul Atreides
27. Hari Seldon
28. Randal Flagg
29. Dagny Taggart
30. Billy Pilgrim
31. Roland Deschain
32. Arthur Philip Dent
33. Tyrone Slothop
34. Stephen Dedalus
35. Piggy
36. Catherine Earnshaw
37. Pyotr Kirillovich Bezukhov
38. Renesmee Cullen
39. Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov
40. Ben Hanscom
41. Cleon II

>> No.2200290

Fairly well-known:

42. Magwitch
43. Johnny Truant
44. Richard deTamble
45. Charlie Gordon
46. Sebastian Flyte
47. Big Jim Rennie
48. Cersei Lannister
49. Boxer
50. Marius Pontmercy
51. Syme
52. Okonkwo
53. Aunt Pittypatty
54. Jane
55. Gladia Delmarre
56. Boo Boo Glass
57. Admiral Quincy Morgan
58. Holloway Roberts
59. Richard Halley
60. Bonnie Blue Butler
61. Oscar Wao
62. The Kid
63. Slartibartfast
64. Ellsworth Tooey
65. Remedios the Beauty
66. Cameron 'Buck' Williams
67. Haydee
68. Lisbeth Salander
69. Andrew Harlan
70. William Blakely
71. Hal Incadenza

Obscure:


72. Jackie Wettington
73. Mechanical Hound
74. Fenchurch
75. Joe Bell
76. Blissenobiarella
77. Trafford Sewell
78. Kate Gombert
79. Fevvers
80. Will Ladislaw
81. Kathy H
82. Theresa Wiggin
83. Frederik Hallam
84. Abigail Gentian
85. Bander
86. The Creep
87. Selim Junz
88. The Wet Nurse
89. Snowman
90. Woo Hoo
91. Richard Patrick Sayre
92. Anna Blume
93. Captain John Manzikert
94. Elaine Risley
95. Sybil Carpenter
96. Caroline Ayres
97. Gregory Powell
98. Nafai
99. Bor Alurin
100. Chick Morrison

>> No.2200291

27.

Damn, that's a lot of Stephen King characters.

>> No.2200298

>>2200291

I made this is in 2009, when I wasn't that well-read. It's funny, a lot I don't even remember, or do remember and smile when I think of the book. You can tell a lot about my old literary tastes from this list.

>> No.2200299

>>2200291

Oh, I didn't see the last 50.

>> No.2200304

reminder that sunhawk thinks house of leaves is a better book than crying of lot 49

>> No.2200316

>>2200304

Yeah. It IS better. HoL is flawed, but really good.

I'm thinking about making a new version of the list now, with a bunch of replaced / new stuff, from all the books I've read in the last 2 years. So many new experiences I've had. Well, for now, keep posting your scores.

>> No.2200327

Who the hell is Caroline Ayres? And Will Ladislaw?

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2200399

Slartibartfast

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2200417

>>2200289
None. Too Mainstream for me.

>> No.2200422

No Hercule Poirot? I'm sad.

>> No.2200829

Not many.

101. Mercedes Purissima Vargas-Gutierrez

>> No.2200842

Harry Potter
Bella Swan
James Bond
Gandalf
Tyler Durden
Scarlett O'Hara
Lolita
Sherlock Holmes
Holden Caufield
Alice
Victor Frankenstein
Robert Langdon

Jean ValJean
Winston Smith
Carrie White
Grendel
Holly Golightly
Dagny Taggart (only because of /lit/)
Billy Pilgrim
Piggy
Catherine Earnshaw
Renesmee Cullen
Fyodor Karamazov

Johnny Truant
Cersei Lannister (only because of /lit/)
Okonkwo
Oscar Wao
Ellsworth Toohey
Remedios the Beauty
Hal Incadenza

Mechanical Hound
So what's that, 31?

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2200854

1, slartibartfast

im missing out

>> No.2202479

It's not important.