If you could live the life of any character in any book, whose life would you choose?
I had kind of a hard time coming up with an answer for this one. So many of the books I love are about fucked up people (Geek Love) or fucked up situations (Life of Pi). And many of the characters I love and root for, like Anna Karenina's Kitty or A Tale of Two Cities' Lucy Manette or A Prayer for Owen Meany's Owen and Johnny, don't particularly live lives that I'd want to lead. Even Beautiful Joe's Laura Morris, who was so kind and lovely, or The Secret Garden's Mary Lennox, who ends up happy and strong, lived in times that don't particularly appeal to my modern sensibilities.
And then I just thought of Charlie Bucket. Of course it has to be Charlie Bucket! What could be better than inheriting a chocolate factory? Nothing, that's what.
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