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Post by Dramatwist on Mar 4, 2018 3:12:02 GMT -5
Allow me to preface before stating my choice, that I read the books in the 1960s...
Bilbo Baggins.
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Post by william on Mar 4, 2018 8:19:36 GMT -5
I'll give you three guesses.  Arthur Conan Doyle and H. P. Lovecraft were/are my "guilty pleasures." And as an aside, the Sherlock Holmes series which aired many years ago on A&E with Jeremy Brett was the most faithful to the original stories and novels--and particularly accurate in its depiction of Dr. Watson. The Basil Rathbone productions were much like the more recent film versions. They borrow the character names, but that is about the only similarity. |
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Post by Wolfman on Mar 4, 2018 9:19:10 GMT -5
I would have to say 'M', who was played by Bernard Lee in the James Bond films.
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Post by Legend Lover on Mar 4, 2018 11:30:30 GMT -5
I'm showing my lack of class here when I say...
Ron Burgundy
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2018 13:39:41 GMT -5
Popeye!
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Post by Beardedpipesmoker on Mar 4, 2018 13:49:59 GMT -5
Gandalf the Gray. I want to make my pipe smoke come to life.
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Post by orley on Mar 4, 2018 16:13:08 GMT -5
Mammy Yokum and Moonbeam McSwine.  |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2018 16:25:55 GMT -5
solar pons
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Post by slowroll on Mar 4, 2018 17:05:14 GMT -5
Inspector Maigret. His creator, also, George's Simenon.
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Post by slowroll on Mar 4, 2018 17:07:03 GMT -5
Mammy Yokum and Moonbeam McSwine. Well, I can agree with moonbeam mcswine anyway  . You have to be older than dirt like me, to remember them. |
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Post by That Falls Guy on Mar 4, 2018 17:35:07 GMT -5
Hands Down, my favorite fictional pipe smoker would be the character known as .....Jim Inks!  |
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Post by Ronv69 on Mar 4, 2018 18:48:25 GMT -5
Any character played by Barry Fitzgerald.
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Post by JimInks on Mar 4, 2018 18:57:03 GMT -5
Hands Down, my favorite fictional pipe smoker would be the character known as .....Jim Inks! It's true! I was replaced by William Campbell who once replaced Paul McCartney when they thought he was dead. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2018 19:07:48 GMT -5
Hands Down, my favorite fictional pipe smoker would be the character known as .....Jim Inks! It's true! I was replaced by William Campbell who once replaced Paul McCartney when they thought he was dead. He's not dead? I heard the news today, oh boy |
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Post by bonanzadriver on Mar 4, 2018 19:09:31 GMT -5
Hands Down, my favorite fictional pipe smoker would be the character known as .....Jim Inks! Ya beat me to it!  |
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Post by exchef on Mar 4, 2018 19:18:09 GMT -5
I would have to say Gandalf.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2018 19:43:56 GMT -5
I'd have to say Sherlock, too, though most others mentioned are also appreciated. I'll give you three guesses. Arthur Conan Doyle and H. P. Lovecraft were/are my "guilty pleasures." And as an aside, the Sherlock Holmes series which aired many years ago on A&E with Jeremy Brett was the most faithful to the original stories and novels--and particularly accurate in its depiction of Dr. Watson. The Basil Rathbone productions were much like the more recent film versions. They borrow the character names, but that is about the only similarity. HPL is more of a guilty pleasure than Doyle. I enjoy reading both very much, but Doyle was a much better writer. Did Lovecraft smoke a pipe? |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2018 19:44:51 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2018 19:57:41 GMT -5
In most cases, yes. Derleth's Pons was a little easier reading, though I had already finished all of Doyle. In his other writings, Derleth threw a lot of nods to Lovecraft's work.
Two writers that were match writers: L. B. Greenwood. She wrote about three novels and were some of the best non-Doyle Holmes I read. Nicholas Meyer wrote the Seven Percent Solution, but the better book was West End Horror. Meyer also did the TV Movie, Judge Dee and the Monastery Murders (big Judge Dee fan), as well as Star Trek, the Wrath of Khan.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2018 22:52:14 GMT -5
In most cases, yes. Derleth's Pons was a little easier reading, though I had already finished all of Doyle. In his other writings, Derleth threw a lot of nods to Lovecraft's work. Two writers that were match writers: L. B. Greenwood. She wrote about three novels and were some of the best non-Doyle Holmes I read. Nicholas Meyer wrote the Seven Percent Solution, but the better book was West End Horror. Meyer also did the TV Movie, Judge Dee and the Monastery Murders (big Judge Dee fan), as well as Star Trek, the Wrath of Khan. When it comes to tutus, why spend 5K for a Gucci when ripoffs can be had for a tenth the cost? I like the Solar Pons stories well enough - they're good fun. Have you also read Basil Copper's contributions? I think he's a better writer than Derleth, actually. He also did a very good Lovecraftian novel called The Great White Space (at least I thought so when I was a teenager). I enjoyed Seven Percent Solution - it was fun vacation reading. I think I'll take West End Horror on my next trip. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2018 22:55:28 GMT -5
Hey, is Blackmouth from PSF here under a different name? He's a good and knowledgable Sherlockian.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2018 23:03:39 GMT -5
In most cases, yes. Derleth's Pons was a little easier reading, though I had already finished all of Doyle. In his other writings, Derleth threw a lot of nods to Lovecraft's work. Two writers that were match writers: L. B. Greenwood. She wrote about three novels and were some of the best non-Doyle Holmes I read. Nicholas Meyer wrote the Seven Percent Solution, but the better book was West End Horror. Meyer also did the TV Movie, Judge Dee and the Monastery Murders (big Judge Dee fan), as well as Star Trek, the Wrath of Khan. When it comes to tutus, why spend 5K for a Gucci when ripoffs can be had for a tenth the cost? I like the Solar Pons stories well enough - they're good fun. Have you also read Basil Copper's contributions? I think he's a better writer than Derleth, actually. He also did a very good Lovecraftian novel called The Great White Space (at least I thought so when I was a teenager). I enjoyed Seven Percent Solution - it was fun vacation reading. I think I'll take West End Horror on my next trip. The cast of characters in West End Horror alone is worth the price of admission. I was so young there were names I wasn't quite familiar with, but still deemed it his best of three. He did write one more later. Yes, I have read them all, though oh so many decades ago. There was one novel that was a private printing, which has never been published in a larger number. That one I have not read. One of my favorite horror movies was based on a Lovecraft novel, "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward". The movie was the Haunted Palace, with Vincent Price and Lon Chaney, Jr. It is considered part of the Corman Poe works, but most of those were hardly Poe. |
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Post by exbenedict on Mar 18, 2018 0:07:59 GMT -5
Since Sherlock Holmes and Lovecraft are already taken, I'll throw in Dr. Seuss, Hemingway, and who can forget Mark Twain. While not fictional characters, they did enrich my youth with their writings, so I am going to make it count. Cheers!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2018 0:16:11 GMT -5
The Man with the Yellow Hat.  |
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Post by PhantomWolf on Mar 18, 2018 0:26:45 GMT -5
I definitely have to give a nod to the characters of LOTR, but when I think of pipe smoking, Holmes and Watson are the first characters I think of.
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Post by Dramatwist on Mar 18, 2018 4:07:48 GMT -5
Since Sherlock Holmes and Lovecraft are already taken, I'll throw in Dr. Seuss, Hemingway, and who can forget Mark Twain. While not fictional characters, they did enrich my youth with their writings, so I am going to make it count. Cheers! It seems to be popularly believed that Ernest Hemingway smoked a pipe. He did not. I have formally studied Hemingway since 1975. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2018 5:12:23 GMT -5
Not even close for me. Sherlock Holmes.
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Post by haebar on Mar 18, 2018 8:08:06 GMT -5
No question - Sherlock Holmes.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2018 10:55:03 GMT -5
Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes
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Post by Darin on Mar 18, 2018 13:30:01 GMT -5
Anyone remember "The Moomins"?
Snufkin was a favorite character:
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Arthur Conan Doyle and H. P. Lovecraft were/are my "guilty pleasures." And as an aside, the Sherlock Holmes series which aired many years ago on A&E with Jeremy Brett was the most faithful to the original stories and novels--and particularly accurate in its depiction of Dr. Watson. The Basil Rathbone productions were much like the more recent film versions. They borrow the character names, but that is about the only similarity.
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