The Ten Twice as fun as The Five
This is like “The Five” except it’s “The Ten” and all of these are from books, so we’re talking fictional characters – no real reason to laminate this list since I’m pretty sure it’s not cheating to accidentally make out with a book.
Now, my reading really runs more the Dorothea Benton Frank, Jackie Collins (70s – 80s vintage) and LaVyrle Spencer – so I’m going to have to brainwash dazzle ya’ll to show you that I can actually read some books too.
Guh, why can’t this be from movies … I could rock the casbah.
10. Daniel Cleaver – Bridget Jones’ Diary – Helen Fielding – Yes, it count’s because I read the book first. Everyone falls for the wrong guy at least once in their life. He’s an AWESOMELY wrong, emotional fuckwith guy. Sigh.
9. Westley – The Princess Bride - William Goldman – I love me some pirates, and a gentle boy who turns into an ass kicker – there is no bad there.
8. “The Cutest Boy in the World” – Every single Sweet Potato Queens book there is – Jill Conner Browne. He’s touted as the perfect man, and he loves a woman with some meat on her bones, and he cries because his wife gets plastic surgery – because he loved her face, just as it was.
7. Shep Walker – Divine Secrets of the Ya-ya Sisterhood – Rebecca Wells. Come on. The man puts up with batshit crazy Vivi Abbott Walker and then goes out and plants a field of sunflowers. And the whole Southern gentleman thing is just swoony. (Yes, “swoony” is a word. Yes, you can use it too.)
6. Scout – Life After God – Douglas Coupland – Now really, I think this is a crush on Douglas Coupland. I heard this story as a book on tape, read by the author. He has this really awesome dry, wry voice that I can still hear in my head 7 years later. I really should go find that book on CD and buy it.
5. Ron Weasley – Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – I had a crush on a red haired boy when I was in 1st grade. (2nd and 3rd too if you are keeping track) (FINE, a different redhaired boy in 5th and 10th. Gads, you people are persistent.) When he’s all spluttering after Hermione calls him on his shit after the ball – that he should have asked her to the ball in the first place – I love him.
4. Gilbert Blythe - Anne of Green Gables series- LM Montgomery. Sigh. Dark hair, spunky, naughty but not mean, smart, doctor, totally in lurve with Anne but acting like a total boy about it.
3. Almanzo Wilder – The Long Winter – Laura Ingalls Wilder. Horses, wild spirit, nice tan, brass balls to ride out to get food to save the town, coming home in a blizzard … puh leeze, who could resist? And you just know he had arms like treetrunks. Or Marlboro Man.
2. Zooey Glass – Franny and Zooey – JD Salinger. Too smart for his own good. Beautiful face. A bit of a jackass. Able to sit and talk for hours. And how he calls his sister in the end of the book … finally giving her what she needs to hear … sigh.
1. John Brooke – Little Women – Louisa May Alcott. Tall. Dark haired. Steady. Moral. Ethical. Good with kids. Oh yeah. My kind of man. No lie. No coincidence I’ve just described Scout as well.
(Girl Talk Thursday has more fictional eye candy for ya.)
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What about MR. DARCY??!?!?!?!
Great list, hon. RAUR.
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OMG YOUR LIST IS SO LITERARY AND PERFECT.
JOHRN BROOKE!
ALMANZO!
GILBERT BLYTHE!
YES.
Omg I love you guys.
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Move Daniel Cleaver to #2 and Mr. Darcy to #1 and WHAM! I am all hot and bothered like a hornet’s nest on the equator!
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Love this list! I was going to ask about Darcy, too, though
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Book list FTW, and awesome choices double FTW!
Almanzo! I don’t think he would have made my ten, but probably my 25. Farmer Boy is actually my favorite of the series.
Westley and Gilbert are pretty high on my list, too.
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Oh My God, totally with you on the Gilbert Blythe selection. Probably my all time favorite fictional male character.
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OH, Yes! Gilbert is my #2. So glad you posted him, I thought I was going to have to actually write a blog post!
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Oh, Almanzo, how could I forget!!!
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Daniel Cleaver = yum!
I can’t let Shep off the hook so easily. Could he help a sister out? Especially with kids and poo and vomit everywhere?
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I’ve always loved you guys, now I love you even more. Why? Three reasons: 1: I now know I am not alone in my coveting of famous authors’ husbands (Cutest Boy in the World and Marlboro Man). 2: I thought I was the only one who got inexplicable crushes on semi-dorky redheaded boys. And 3: Who knew Almonzo Wilder was so freakin’ hot? They should have found someone much hotter than that Jeff Daniels wanna-be they used for TV.
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