100 Characters Of British Literature, In Order Of Bangability

On one of my Dunnett e-mail lists, we've been discussing this list: 111 Male Characters Of British Literature, In Order Of Bangability. I don't know who Carrie Fyfe is, and there seems to be a tongue-in-cheek factor here - her own tongue in her own cheek, that is. And it begs the question, "What is literature?" I am assuming that writing for television or movies doesn't count for her list, though I would and will, by preference, include it.

But I read the first four items and thought: Yes! Mr. Rochester, Aragorn, and Eugene Wrayburn are three of my top four choices, and I thought I was the only person with a total pash for Eugene Wrayburn. Mr. Darcy - heh. Not so much. I've learned to tolerate him with time, but the rest of the world (and Elizabeth Bennett) can have him. My number one choice would be, of course, Francis Crawford of Lymond.

Which Don Juan is she talking about? The poem by Byron? Okay, I can see that.

Some of my least favourite characters are there, too: Heathcliffe and Flashman, who are abominable. And Uriah Heep? Captain Hook? King Lear? Aslan? WTF? Okay, I suppose the point is that Uriah Heep is towards the end of the list and therefore unattractive, but that means she's running out of choices rather fast.

She has the Duke of Avon and Sydney Carton, so I'm okay again. She seems to find Tolkien's characters sexier than I do: she puts in Hobbits, dwarves, and Tom Bombadil, to which I can only say, tastes vary. Or maybe it's that they're far on the wrong side of the "want/don't want" divide?

I'd like to see the same list done with American characters, too.

( My list... )