Eugenides Invaded my Grad

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So I'm sitting with my class in the graduation audience listening to the lovely speeches all about us now finding our way in the world, and then the Dean says, "Best of luck in your future endeavors," and it was all I could do not to laugh out loud as I'm now thinking about the Queen's Thief and not my future. The Acting President said the same line in one of her speeches a little later and that set me off all over again. He really can steal anything...

Books we like translate to Characters We Love?

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Leng and were chatting over in Chatzy about characters (in Finnikin of the Rock) and I wondered...

How much does a likable character play into loveable books? And vise versa. For example have you ever shot down a perfectly good plot because you didn't like the main character? What sort of characters make you want to hurl one book across the room while others sit right by your bedside, and recieve warm hugs before long trips? (well...I hug my books..)

I will give an example. I don't know why-but I don't normally like characters that causally swear. Now-I know Gen does it all the time-but I mean characters using overly inappropiate language is usualy a turn off, I know we do daily. I know people that swear without evening having reason. It's just harder for me to come around to liking characters that are dropping the f-bomb and other words consistantly. So if I pick up a book where the main character uses crude language-the book itself is already at a disadvantage of me liking it.

So, that's my example, you don't have to agree. But I'd love to hear about your book "turns ons/ turn offs" in terms of characters !