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Book Characters Who Would Be Best Friends in Real Life

  First Posted: 09/17/11 03:01 PM ET   Updated: 11/17/11 05:12 AM ET



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Last month, we ran a post on TV characters who would likely befriend each other in real life. Today we thought we’d try out the literary version of this game with characters that span cities, and even eras.

Who do you think, dear readers, would take the next step and form an alliance if time and place were not an issue? Take a look at our humble list of literary unions, and please suggest your own pairings in the comments section below.

Holden Caulfield from "The Catcher in the Rye" and Draco Malfoy from the Harry Potter series
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At one point, Caulfield was the paradigmatic teenager, but now his star has fallen as kids munch on antidepressants and try to be absorbed by, rather than rebel against, the growing ranks of other-directed kids in the lonely crowd. Which is why he would probably get along with another unloved character, Draco Malfoy. If Holden and Draco were friends, however, Draco probably would have already failed out of Hogwarts and ended up somewhere in the bowels of London, smoking cigarette after cigarette and drinking out of of a pocket flask as they discussed their stupid classmates and even more ignorant parents. Phonies! The lot of 'em.
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From Flavorwire: Last month, we ran a post on TV characters who would likely befriend each other in real life. Today we thought we’d try out the literary version of this game with characters th...
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12:06 PM on 09/20/2011
What an appalling metaphor, kids "munching" on antidepressants ... without antidepressants and a good psychologist I wouldn't even BE here.
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SangZe
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07:40 AM on 09/20/2011
Dumbing down.
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07:30 PM on 09/19/2011
Tolkien and Martin and two characters whose names are similar derivitives of Sam and they could possibly be friends...

Coinsidence?

I think not
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Evan Pritchard
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04:05 PM on 09/19/2011
I don't recall any part of the Lord of the Rings that depicted Sam as 'faint-hearted'. Perhaps you're thinking of the more bumbling and timid Sam of the films.
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01:15 PM on 09/19/2011
Sal Paradise in "On the Road" and Huck Finn.
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Michael Ehling
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11:01 PM on 09/18/2011
Helen Burns (of "Jane Eyre") and Nanda Gray (of Antonia White's "Frost in May").
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05:40 PM on 09/18/2011
Dante from The Count of Monte Cristo & Robinson Cruso would be ultimate drinking buddies
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11:02 AM on 09/18/2011
bad kitty and binky the space cat
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10:48 AM on 09/18/2011
My picks are 'friends of Jane Austen'
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Mr Bennet P&P) and Cliff Janeway (John Dunning)
Lady Bertram (Mansfield Park) and Bartleby, the Scrivener
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Sir Walter Elliot and Dorian Gray
Catherine Morland and Anne Shirley
Lady Susan Vernon and Irene Adler (from the Sherlock Holmes story)
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10:38 AM on 09/22/2011
nice list. If you have time, how do you believe that Mary Crawford and Holly Golightly would be friends?
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08:43 PM on 09/17/2011
Hannibal Lecter and Popeye's Swee'pea.
(But not for long.)
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08:36 PM on 09/17/2011
Jaws and Emma Bovary. They just couldn't get enough.
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08:26 PM on 09/17/2011
Tom Joad and Yuri Zhivago, Joad returned from prison and Zhivago is imprisoned as society is with the the Tsarist system until all hell breaks loose and he, like Joad, goes on a great journey, even going as far as breaking the law for justice. Both are treated as outsiders and a have a disgust with the status quo.
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08:19 PM on 09/17/2011
(Auntie) Mame Dennis and Sally Bowles. To party with both of them would have been the best.
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Caryn Banker
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08:59 PM on 09/19/2011
Best one yet!
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07:37 PM on 09/17/2011
Rodion Raskolnikov and Grigor Samsa
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