Bill Crider sent the list NPR's top 100 literary characters
of the last 100 years. That list inspired me to suggest this.
I originally proposed the top 100 hard boiled/noir characters
of the last 100 years. I know the list of the top 100 movies
or similar lists start out by having a larger list to vote
from. I think that is best to do with this. We are now only
thinking of names to allow Rara Avis members to vote on
later. Right now, along the obvious names like Spade we are
only providing names now so someone like Brock Callahan (
author: William Campbell Gault) or Mac (author: Thomas B
Dewey won't be forgotten. I think someone suggested we
nominate for the rest of the month and actually vote in
April. That seems to be a good idea. Erick Anderson or I will
give periodic updates with all the nominees alphabetized so
people can easily check to see if a worthy character has been
missed.
As this is being conducted on Rara Avis which, as Bill
sometimes reminds us, is restricted to discussion of WRITTEN
hard boiled or noir fiction. That means we can't nominate
someone like Joe Friday, but we could nominate a character
from comics. If people want to nominate or discuss characters
from tv or movies like Joe Friday or Jake Gittes as welll as
those from literature they should go to Gerald So's Crimeseen
list
(http://groups.yahoo.com/group/crimeseen/)
When the it is time or voting I don't like ranking those for
whom you would like to vote because that could become a
hassle and the vote for the obvious characters like Marlowe
would overwhelm those for more ideosyncratic choices. I do
think we should limit the number of votes per person. Ten
seems like an ok number.
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