Huffington Post Readers Answer: What Book Character Would You Love To Be Best Friends With?

This week, we asked Huffington Post readers to let us know what book characters they would love to be best friends with. While we received some responses that were expected (any Jane Austen heroine), we also received the more bizarre (the cannibal from "Moby-Dick"). Here are the rest of the results.

Is your book BFF missing from the list? Let us know who it is in the comments!

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Raoul Duke, from Hunter S. Thompson's "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"

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Duke, imagined to be an autobiographical character, is pretty much always in a state of constant drug intoxication. In "Fear and Loathing," he travels to Las Vegas with his attorney to cover a motorcycle race. The coverage is abandoned in favor of doing lots and lots of drugs. The pair wreck cars, destroy hotel rooms and have lots of trippy visions. He'd might be an interesting friend for the major thrill-seekers, but those who are meeker at heart would probably not be his biggest fan.

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Duke, imagined to be an autobiographical character, is pretty much always in a state of constant drug intoxication. In "Fear and Loathing," he travels to Las Vegas with his attorney to cover a motorcycle race. The coverage is abandoned in favor of doing lots and lots of drugs. The pair wreck cars, destroy hotel rooms and have lots of trippy visions. He'd might be an interesting friend for the major thrill-seekers, but those who are meeker at heart would probably not be his biggest fan.

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[LibrarianBarb]

08:22 AM on 06/29/2011

I would pick one of my favorite mystery heroines - they seem like great friends and will stick by you in a pinch - Casey Jones, Cat Austen, Mama Grace Covington, Fremont Jones, Iris Cooper or Jane Whitfield.

[Circe]

05:44 AM on 06/05/2011

Bertie Wooster for drinks and laughs (Wodehouse)
Ron Weasley for close calls (Harry Potter)
Sal Paradise for poetry and jazz (On the Road by Jack Kerouac)
Michael Tolliver because he's amusing and cooks like a dream (Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin)

But really I have all of them rolled into one---my BFF, Andy C. Girlfriends are ok. but when it comes to the crunch, Andy always has my back.

[ESerafina42]

08:27 PM on 06/04/2011

Elizabeth Bennet (sad that you can't get the name of one of fiction's most famous characters right) for laughs and Hermione Granger for book talk.

[Maggie McQuaid]

07:46 PM on 06/04/2011

Nymphadora Tonks
Lord Peter Wimsey
Charlotte the spider.

[gypsynomad]

05:26 PM on 06/03/2011

Lisabeth Salander and Boo Radley, both of them are on the opposite end of the spectrum yet so similar ... “If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't follow. I'd be at the bottom to catch them when they fall.”

[Renee Lascala]

04:20 PM on 06/03/2011

Huckleberry Finn
Col. Christopher Brandon
Death (Sandman)

[Inscrutable13]

01:24 PM on 06/03/2011

Jean Tarrou from Camus' novel "The Plague." He's a quiet, humble, but driven man who lives life according to his own moral code, even though he pays the ultimate price as a result.

[Hope Richardson]

11:54 AM on 06/03/2011

Skeeter from 'The Help'. I'd be like looking in a mirror. A much taller, frizzier mirror.

Luna Lovegood from Harry Potter would be a far better friend than Harry, I think. She's funny and quirky and not nearly as dangerous to be around.

[ESerafina42]

08:25 PM on 06/04/2011

I thought the same thing about Harry Potter. Luna would be fun, but I think Hermione would be a better fit for me.

[Hope Richardson]

01:54 AM on 06/05/2011

Yeah ,I thought about that, but we're both such "insufferable know-it-alls" that we'd probably kill each other before we had the chance to be friends.

[tomtopspin]

09:56 AM on 06/03/2011

Randle Patrick McMurphy from "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest" by Ken Kesey.
Jack Reacher from the Lee Child books.
Yossarian from "Catch 22."

[asdusty]

01:17 AM on 06/03/2011

Sam Vimes from Terry Pratchett's 'Discworld' series.

[dahpunkster]

11:04 PM on 06/02/2011

the girl in cool shades
she is slumming her way through california and staying with different people in the seventies.. her mom died and her dad is not a person she can rely on... Her bossy sister loves her but doesn't get her..
sadly it is hard to find because it is out of print...

[BuckyJamesDio]

11:03 PM on 06/02/2011

I'd have to go with Fiver. And Buckthorn. But mainly Fiver.

[cameron d]

11:00 PM on 06/02/2011

Wait! Jeeves and Bertie Wooster! How could I forget. That's it. That's my choice for sure!

[dahpunkster]

10:59 PM on 06/02/2011

tucker from the island of the sequined love nun
dena from american wife
jaime and renee from the summer of naked swim parties

[cameron d]

10:57 PM on 06/02/2011

I always wanted to hang out with S.E. Hinton's "The Outsiders."