Have you ever read a book with a character who was so annoying that you wanted to reach into the book and slap them?
Have you ever read a book with a character who was so annoying that you wanted to reach into the book and slap them?
Have you ever read a book with a character who was so annoying that you wanted to reach into the book and slap them?
Flora Finching in Charles Dickens’ Little Dorrit is having that effect on me.
Yep ! Just finished reading inkspeel (Cornelia Funke) and I thought Meggie was super annoying at first ?
Bella in twilight
Yep!!!
I’ve never read it, but I’ve heard that she’s pretty bad.
@Jackie She just kept on whining
Edward made me want to vomit with his creepy stalking & demands–and treating Bella like she was a 5 year old (although, to be fair, she wasn’t that far off…).
@Gina well since he was ancient … to him she was probably 5
Lot of time ?
Eragon in Eragon. Arya in Eragon.
Oh yeah!
Yes
Lydia Wickham (nee Bennet)
@Bella Definitely!
Anita Blake
&
Clary from City of Bones
The first few chapters of Twilight–both Bella and Edward.
Yes. All of them.
oh, I like this story! But her boyfriend Pedro (I think it’s his name, if I remember) is a wimp! The mother is typical of the traditional Mexican culture of the past. And her sister who marries her boyfriend, well, no comments.
I amend my previous statement. The oldest sister was the only one I liked, because she left and became her own person.
@Gina oh yes! That scene in the shower, btw, is even better when you read it! better than the movie! I’d like to try that ‘chicken’ with rose petals, whatever it was, haha!
I have not seen the film. I read the book and was just so angry at everyone; they all needed a smack! ?
Yes! That’s how I felt about Scarlett O’Hara throughout most of Gone With The Wind!
Sarah from Bitten and Smitten by Michelle Rowen had that sort of affect on me ?
Lolita and Humbert from Lolita. I don’t know which one annoyed me more.
Oh yeah!
Mare Barrow from Red Queen, I cannot stand her and Juliette from Shatter Me to a lesser extent, she irritates me but I can deal.
Uriah Heep in David Copperfield
I think I wanted to choke him rather than slap him.
Several.
Yep! The Shopaholic series. Just pay your bills!!!?
Many times, hehe. 😉
Mr. Collins from Pride & Prejudice.
YES!
Definitely! There are a few in Pride and Prejudice on my Literary Slap List, and he is one of them!
@Joanne – Literary Slap List! LOVE this! ?
Clary
Yes ? but I knew the type of books the author wrote and I’d like the character eventually
Anna & Etinne from Anna & the French Kiss. I didn’t like either characters for their shitty behaviour, don’t know who I didn’t like more.
I enjoyed the book but the indecision on Etienne’s part annoyed me a bit as well. They do some shitty things, I agree but I still could enjoy the story regardless.
Several! Brand of Amber, Count Glossu Rabban, Arnold Siegel, Geoff Fu George and Johnny Keems- to name a few
Yes! The mother from Second Child
Amy Dunne from gone girl
Holden Caulfield.
yes, two. Where the Heart Is. Girl on the Train.
The MC from Throne of Glass by Sara Maas. God I couldn’t STAND HER
Dorethea from Spelled, I’ve had trouble finishing it.
Whatshername in Throne of Glass.
Yep, quite a few actually ?
yes Elena in Vampire Diaries books
Bella from twilight
Yes. Gone Girl.
Yes. This one character was such a whiny dumbass.
The prince from children of blood and bone, forgotten his name, zelie annoyed mrtoo, I loved the princess and zelie’s brother instead. Also Nesta in A court of frost and starlight and girl on the train MC.
Yes. Amy in Gone Girl. Then her parents.
Yup
The main character in the Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. Ugh!!!
Oh yes
Yes! So many lately!!
Miranda in BookShop of Yesterdays. So bratty.
Sometimes I do.
Alyssa from Splintered, drives me crazy.
Oh my yes.
Yes!
Catcher in the Rye!
Oh yes!
Feyre from the ACOTAR series. I despised her from the start and REALLY disliked being in her head for three and a half books
I loved the actual series but sometimes Feyre was just so dumb ?
@Kaitlyn I continued with it because I loved the secondary characters. I think I would have enjoyed it more if it had been third person multi-perspective. I was far more invested in Mor, Cassian, Azriel, and Lucien then Feysand lol
Right! The other characters were better lol.
I’ve only just finished the first one but she drove me nuts sometimes. People tell her multiple times not to do certain things and she goes and does exactly that. I loved the scenes with Lucian and Rhysand but everything else was not fun. I’ve head that the second book is much better though.
@Ana The second book is a lot more romancy, so I personally didn’t love it as much as some folks, but if you like a lot of romance you’ll probably enjoy it
I can enjoy a good romance, so it shouldn’t be an issue.
On more than one occasion.
Oh yes
Juliette. In ALL of the books. Lol!
Uhm The Twilight Saga… Bella Swan is the most annoying main character I’ve ever read..
She is hideously awful
Yes! In fact, that’s the number one reason that I will put the book down.
Gone girl!
Yes ..
Harry Potter in Harry Potter series…all the time. I liked Ron and Hermoine too much to quit the series.
Felt this way about Liesl from Wintersong. I liked the story but her character completely ruined it for me. I haven’t been sure about giving the sequel a go in the hope she’s changed ?
So many times. Not just slap them but strangle them!
Yahh.. right…
Yep! Asa in Too Late by Colleen Hoover
One of the character in a book i am reading is a real b but she is victom the whole mystery revloves around
Ha! Ha!…..from my book ‘On Either Side Part 2’……*
Back in England, around mid-morning of the following day, Cecil Pratt was pottering in his greenhouse, disinfecting dahlia beds with a water-pot and spray when two large men wearing trilby’s and black leather overcoats (collars up of course) opened the flimsy glass door and approached him, heavy footsteps echoing ominously up to where he stood. One was slightly taller and looked more intimidating than the other. Cecil was wearing reading-glasses on the bridge of his nose which steamed-up ridiculously with the sweat of fretting brought about by their uninvited and unexpected arrival. To Cecil they looked like a couple of mobsters, a visit he hadn’t anticipated in his little haven world cushioned by horticultural silence from the lively chaos that spun society outside and elsewhere.
The taller man looked at Cecil, his eyes shadowed intimidatingly by the peak of his hat. He tried his best to smile from a natural grimace then spoke, his foreign accent gravelly and deep; but the words slipped precisely from his tight lips and were politely presented. ‘We are looking for Brenda Pratt. Is she here?’
‘I’m afraid not,’ replied Cecil nervously.
‘Are you her husband?’
‘Yes, Cecil Pratt,’ said the councillor, feeling more at ease with a polished regard for the man’s courtesy.
‘When is she due back?’ questioned the big man patiently.
Cecil thought for a moment; somehow he’d smelt a rat. No one ever visited his greenhouse so what did these two want with his wife? He knew everyone she knew and vice versa. Best that he assess the situation with a civil servant’s perspective and that sagely wisdom that accompanied his status. He didn’t recognise either of these burly looking foreign strangers so why should he tell them where she was? And the big man’s manner seemed so lame and innocuous it was time to stand his ground and stick up for Brenda. ‘She’s staying with a friend at the moment,’ he eventually answered.
‘Where is that and who is the friend?’
‘I think it would be wrong of me to divulge that information without Brenda’s permission,’ said Cecil stubbornly.
A look of impatient displeasure struck the big man’s face. ‘Where is she?’ he growled belligerently.
The big man’s sudden change in attitude, from civility to intolerance, induced a wave of rebellious chivalry to flush Cecil’s thinking. He wanted his wife back one day, and the sooner the better. Then he would show her that he was twice the man she thought he was. No time like the present to put this gutsy new gallant streak into practise. He stuck his nose in the air defiantly. ‘I’ve already told you that I’m not prepared…..’
The big man’s punch was so hard that Cecil flew backwards like a stone from a catapult, across one of his dahlia beds, through a pane of glass and finished off sprawled upon the concrete path outside his greenhouse with a ghastly bloody nose. The big man walked over to him then picked poor Cecil up like a rag-doll. ‘I thought you might need a little reminder?’ he said dryly.
A moist patch spread around Cecil’s groin. His face felt like it’d been trodden on by an elephant and he was gasping for air like a guppy on the beach. ‘Yes, you’re quite right, how stupid of me….’ He stumbled his words so nervously that one fell into the next without a stop or start. Then he gulped for air again. ‘I’ll just go and fetch Brenda’s address book. I won’t be a moment.’
Yes
Yup. I even wanted to dance w/ a character & have “play time ” 😉
Yes lol
I wanted to slap all of the characters in 50 shades ?
I am right now, actually.
Yes.
Yes! Winter at death’s hotel.
yes!!!!
Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes. And I must say I pride myself in writing such a character because it gives the book life if you don’t only love or hate a character. We all have a annoying person in our life, so there probably would be one in a book to. That being said as a reader, I HATE THEM ??
Definitely. It was a good book, but I wanted to slap the MC up the funny side. It changed my 5 star review to a 4, and if not for the development of a major character I wouldn’t have reviewed it at all.
Yes
Dolores Umbridge in Harry Potter
Carl Henderson in The Homing! ?
Yes
Yep…couldn’t even finish the book ?
Absolutely!!!
Definitely
Yes
Yes!
The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. I constantly wanted to backhand smack (with knuckles) 99.9% of the characters, 99.9% of the time.
Oh dear. I was thinking about reading that series.
Uh oh…I hope you fare better than I did!
Yes but later on, he became my “husband goals”
Bridget Jones.
Yep!
Yes
Yep
Yes, Ave Maria in the Big Cherry Holler books, especially!
Feyre from ACOMAF
Dolores Umbridge (Harry Potter) and Mr. Pumblechook (The Great Expectations)
Dean Koontz Intensity, character…Chyna
Yes. The whole book. The Girl on the train. Worst book ever.
Absolutely!
Yep. The female in Shades of Gray., Also the main character in The Name of the Wind.
Fforde’s Shades of Gray? How did you like it? I’ve heard good things. It’s supposed to be funny?
Name of the Wind.. god that book was a disaster. Rothfuss shows us that dialogue and pacing are a difficult thing for some people to master. The titles of the books in this series are the on interesting thing about them.
@Ana sorry. I couldn’t finish it. I couldn’t stand that character and I was supposed to be sympathetic.
@Adam absolutely!
@Nancy Ah, it’s a shame. I’ll give it a try anyway.
I loved The Name of the Wind, I didn’t mind Kvothe so much. He’s a very polarising character. I agree on the pacing though, it could be done better. Speaking of annoying characters – I did really dislike Denna. Even though she has some characteristics that I usually love in characters, she got on my nerves so much.
More this year than usual…
Yess! Brenda from the Maze Runner. Honestly I shipped Teresa and Thomas so much and then they introduced Brenda ?
I agree completely. It was so unnecessary.
Yes, a man called Ove…
Hell, yes
Oh, yes!
All of Ruth Ware’s characters ??.. I feel sorry for them for being created
Gone Girl
Yes: Lilah Bard from the Shades of Magic trilogy. And every Sarah J. Maas character.
Oh my, that’s many – considering both series! 😀
Scarlett O’Hara- She should have been related to the Wicked Witch of the West! https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18405.Gone_with_the_Wind?ac=1&from_search=true
The Wicked Witch of the South? ?
@Jackie Yep! 🙂
Yes!!! Every character in A Man Called Ove
Yes. ?
Yes, Anastasia in FSOG. I wanted to shove a sock in her mouth every time she bleated on about the ‘inner goddess’.
Oh yes. Including characters I’ve created.
Catcher in the Rye, Holden… smh