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It's a very personal question to ask but we didn't let that stop us, and readers really seemed to want to let us know which book characters they'd most want to sleep with if they had the opportunity. Men and women responded to let us know which literary type they found most sexy. Ladies--the men seem to like them feisty.

Here's a roundup of the responses.

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Zooey Glass from J.D. Salinger's "Franny and Zooey"

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Zooey Glass comes from a very complicated family, and we can only imagine that that makes him a particularly complicated man. Not only is he extremely intelligent (deemed "too clever for his own good"), but he is also (according to his brother Buddy), the most attractive in the family. Though he is particularly arrogant and also mistreats his mother, we can see why this aspiring actor would makes someone's list.

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Zooey Glass comes from a very complicated family, and we can only imagine that that makes him a particularly complicated man. Not only is he extremely intelligent (deemed "too clever for his own good"), but he is also (according to his brother Buddy), the most attractive in the family. Though he is particularly arrogant and also mistreats his mother, we can see why this aspiring actor would makes someone's list.

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mcrblg said on 24 Friday 2011 am30 8:58 am: Dagny Taggart from Atlas Shrugged. Not only is she a beautiful and powerful woman, but she's picky enough that sleeping with her would be such an honor.

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[post princess]

05:07 AM on 08/21/2011

Edward Cullen, Edward Cullen, Edward Cullen.

[LibrarianBarb]

01:43 PM on 07/15/2011

In no particular order at all -
Mr. Darcy
Colonel Brandon (he did fight that duel)
Eugene Wrayburn (Our Mutual Friend)
Benjamin Weaver (historical mystery series)
Julian Kestrel (historical mystery series)
Victor Cardenas (modern mystery series)

[Lynne Henderson]

09:12 PM on 07/08/2011

Professor Snape!!!

[mombabytiger]

04:35 PM on 07/02/2011

"If he loved you with all the power of his soul for a whole lifetime, he couldn't love you as much as I do in a single day."
Heathcliff - "Wuthering Heights"

[EmilyRose 85]

09:42 AM on 07/01/2011

Enjolras perhaps?

[Joseph Camel]

04:18 PM on 06/30/2011

I find it kind of shocking how grossly inappropriate a lot of these choices are. Men and women seem to favor emotionally unstable narcissists more than anything else. If your idea of a dream date can be found in something by J.D. Salinger, Virginia Woolf, or James Joyce, then you can stop wondering to yourself privately after sobbing into a pillow why you never find "the right one."

[Thaag Tidestalker]

07:37 AM on 06/30/2011

Professor Snape.

Yeah, I went there.

[RdSparrow]

06:32 AM on 06/28/2011

Mr Darcy is a classic but I always preferred Captain Wentworth from Persuasion.

[Avery Breyne-Cartwright]

01:19 AM on 06/27/2011

Zooey! And I would leave any significant other for King Arthur. So moral. How dreamy.

[Segismundo]

04:26 PM on 06/26/2011

Madame de Rênal, of course!

[acjcrc]

10:13 AM on 06/26/2011

75 years ago I read "Grand Hotel" ,my first adult book. For those that do not know it, it was banned and censored in many places. It was made a movie starring Greta Garbo as the aging Star. The description of that beautiful lady stirred me in many ways and remains in my memory yet. Even Greta Garbo could not measure up.

[Renee Koppelman]

12:10 AM on 06/26/2011

WHAT NO EDWARD ROCHESTER????

[BevInSoCal]

10:46 PM on 06/25/2011

How about some suspense/thriller/murder mystery guys? Lucas Davenport from John Sandford's "Prey" series. Spenser, from the late, great Robert B. Parker. And James Lee Burke's Dave Robicheaux?

[Shannon Soesbe]

05:19 PM on 06/26/2011

I absolutely second Lucas Davenport! Excellent choice.

[GeeBee]

08:00 PM on 06/27/2011

Well for the guys, how about Scarpetta? or V.I. Warshawski? The latter was played by Kathleen Turner once I believe.

[BevInSoCal]

10:00 PM on 06/27/2011

Thanks! We certainly have excellent taste :-)

[BevInSoCal]

10:43 PM on 06/25/2011

What about Rhett Butler???? How could you leave him out?

[BlackJAC]

03:06 PM on 06/26/2011

Because he liked prostitutes and eventually bailed on Scarlett.

[Haydee Jade]

03:54 PM on 06/26/2011

Casanova had his daughter and was his grandson's father yet he's on the list. Rhett should have made the list.

[BevInSoCal]

10:03 PM on 06/27/2011

He didn't bail on Scarlett (she's one of my heroes); she refused to recognize the depth of her feelings for him. I like to think that when she reached the age of about 45, they found each other again. Without all the drama (hers, not Sherman's).

[Michele Macdonald]

01:03 PM on 06/25/2011

I loved the Alexandria Quartet...thanks for bring this up...they should do a mini-series on Masterpiece Classics-maybe I'll pen it. That would be a life's work!

[DoctorGreeves]

05:28 PM on 06/25/2011

Lawrence Durrel's Alexandria Quartet is such good stuff. Incredibly complex and totally satisfying characters involved in a completely compelling story. I love it.