Don't forget Rincewind and Twoflower!
Also, pretty much any character from novel set in Forgotten Realms or Dragonlance.
Most Unique Character Name in a Book?
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Don't forget Rincewind and Twoflower!
Also, pretty much any character from novel set in Forgotten Realms or Dragonlance.
LittleCooner
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From my early years as a teenager, I always thought that Herman Melville's Queequeg was a strange name, but my favorite unique character in later years is Jugs Johnson who is a creature of Skeeter Skelton 's great writing. ( being an old southern red neck, I can see the dude with several jugs of that good ol mountain dew from the hills and hollers
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Always liked Ebeneezer Scrooge .
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joeintexas
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Reack Havock.....where have we heard that name before! From the Chicken man series.
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Don't remember the names but a look at the writings of Kurt Vonnegut or Franz Kafka may warrant a pipe smoking brandy snifting discussion
All from the novel True Grit.
-The Original Greaser Bob (not to be confused with younger Greaser Bob)
-Lucky Ned Pepper.
-The Original Greaser Bob (not to be confused with younger Greaser Bob)
-Lucky Ned Pepper.
Humbert Humbert.
Caractacus Potts and Truly Scrumptious from Ian Fleming's Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
Jack Flash
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I don't know if Fargo was a book (I only saw the movie) but I always liked the character Shep Proudfoot. But I don't think I would ever want Mr. Proudfoot mad at me! 
I found the belt thrashing scene from Fargo on YouTube. Unfortunately, I dare not post the link here. (Adult situations / language to the extreme ). So here's a still from that scene which is violent enough in its own right:
I found the belt thrashing scene from Fargo on YouTube. Unfortunately, I dare not post the link here. (Adult situations / language to the extreme
). So here's a still from that scene which is violent enough in its own right:
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amazingflapjack
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And a great character he is...
I hope they follow through with the promise of another book with this character at its center. (They haven't have they?)
Aloysius Xingu Leng Pendergast per wiki !
Will have to see if the library has the Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child series of books.
Sounds like an interesting character. Thanks for the tip!
"...Aloysius Xingu Leng Pendergast was born circa 1960 and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. Pendergast retains his Southern manners and mellifluous Deep Southern accent. He studied Anthropology at Harvard University (graduating summa cum laude) and received a dual Doctor of Philosophy degree in Classics and Philosophy from Baliol College, part of Oxford University in England .
Pendergast once served with the U.S. Special Forces. Most of his military records are classified and unknown.
A number of years before the series began, Pendergast was married to Helen Esterhazy Pendergast. She was presumed killed in a hunting accident while in Africa (mauled by a lion), but reappears in the so-called Helen Trilogy.
Pendergast is generally described as being stoically aloof and eccentric, though his ineffable politeness and unerring intellect imbue him with an irresistible charm or enigmatic sense of danger if the occasion should call for it. Well-learned in many subjects, he converses easily with doctors, scientists, intellectuals, vagabonds, highly specialized masters of specific disciplines, and people of a wide variety of language and culture alike. He is a master of psychological manipulation, disguise, and improvisation...." Per wiki!
I hope they follow through with the promise of another book with this character at its center. (They haven't have they?)
Texas Star
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In Sandford's books, don't forget Del Capslock!
I've read some books about a WI game warden. Don't recall the author or the lead character's' names, but he had some of the most gosh-awful names ever. Seemed to be trying to be creative or to be sure that he didn't use anyone's real name!
Some of the Spanish/Mexican names in David Lindsey 's books are real, but none I'd seen before. The author told me that he's traveled a lot in Mexico and in Central America and I think his wife may be Mexican, as is the maid who half raised him. He's edited books of Mexican folklore, too. I think the names are real, but are interesting to see for the first time. My favorite is the aristocratic assassin for Los Tecos determined to kill a renegade Mexican politician in Houston in, "Spiral." I'd have to look up his last name. First name was "Blas." That book also has probably the most realistic gunfight that I've seen in literature, as Sgt. Stuart Haydon killed the man who'd just SMG'd his partner.
Some names in his, "Mercy" are good. Actually, Australian actress Peta Wilson, who played one of those characters in the movie version, has a pretty odd first name. Every character in that film was miscast, from the heroine down. Peta was the best match, but I couldn't quite see her as her character, Vickie Kittrie. The book is superb. The movie was too PC and was filmed in Canada, not in Houston. The heroine was played by a blonde actress whose name I try to forget. Ellen Something. Barkin? Never liked her. They should have gotten Eva Longoria or Jessica Alba. It could have been Jessica's breakout role as a serious actress. That lead detective was Hispanic in the book. The Anglo FBI agent with whom she became involved also had a good name, if a bit unusual. I should get out the book and look it up. I think he was probably based on the real John Douglas.
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Texas Star
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The guy in, "Lolita"?
Someone mentioned the name/word "Detritus." I published an article in a gun title about my son's work as a security contactor in Iraq, following his Army service there. In it, I referred to him being in a convoy that passed the detritus of war.
Another writer, a friend whose byline you'd probably know, contacted me and told me that it was the sole place where he's ever seen the word "detritus" in actual usage. Maybe it's why that author mentioned here chose it for his character.
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Old TexMex
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Ignatius J. Reilly from: A Confederacy of Dunces
I once had a boxer/lab mutt who had a great Stupid Pet Trick. Duke would snap at smoke rings so assiduously that I was sure he would be my ticket to an appearance on Letterman. Letterman is a cigar guy; I don't think he'd have been able to resist.
If I blew a smoke ring straight out, Dukey would go get it. If I blew it up high, he would go up for it. If I blew it off to the side, Duke would go over me and up as high as necessary to snap at it. Best of all, he had a sophisticated mathematical sense that allowed him to distinguish the fractal detritus of a disintegrated ring from a merely random puff of smoke, which he would ignore.
Major Major Major.......
See Catch-22. Also Lieutenant, Colonel and General Scheisskopf (**** Head)
P.R. Deltoid, a rather gloopy name for Alex's probation officer in Clockwork Orange.
Willy Wonka
Moby Dick????
T.S. Garp , His biological father Technical Sergeant Garp was a turret gunner lobotomized by a shell fragment and could only repeat, "garp... garp... garp" "The World According To Garp"
Zaphrod Beeblebrox - 'Hitchhiker's Guide......"
HAL - Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer
See Catch-22. Also Lieutenant, Colonel and General Scheisskopf (**** Head)
P.R. Deltoid, a rather gloopy name for Alex's probation officer in Clockwork Orange.
Willy Wonka
Moby Dick????
T.S. Garp , His biological father Technical Sergeant Garp was a turret gunner lobotomized by a shell fragment and could only repeat, "garp... garp... garp" "The World According To Garp"
Zaphrod Beeblebrox - 'Hitchhiker's Guide......"
HAL - Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer
Steve Buscemi...
Steve Buscemi flying spread eagled naked through the air made me roll on the floor. That was one mad Injun.
I don't know if Fargo was a book (I only saw the movie) but I always liked the character Shep Proudfoot. But I don't think I would ever want Mr. Proudfoot mad at me!
I found the belt thrashing scene from Fargo on YouTube. Unfortunately, I dare not post the link here. (Adult situations / language to the extreme
Steve Buscemi flying spread eagled naked through the air made me roll on the floor. That was one mad Injun.
How could I forget.......
Natty Bumpo?
Eradicate Sampson - Worked for Tom Swift Sr. So called because he eradicates dirt.
Natty Bumpo?
Eradicate Sampson - Worked for Tom Swift Sr. So called because he eradicates dirt.
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