Fictional people you'd have a beer with

[FnG]magnolia

[FnG]magnolia

[FnG]magnolia

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People who you'd have a beer with?

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It's a Friday night and your normal circle of friends are busy for reasons that don't matter. If you could go out and have a beer with only two people, who would they be?

My two :

RON ******* SWANSON


Roger from The Gum Thief by Douglas Coupland

wiki said:
The primary plot of this novel involves two characters, Roger and Bethany, employees of a Staples in North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The two characters come from very different walks of life. Roger,a middle-aged alcoholic, is coping with an ugly divorce from his wife and the loss of access to his child in the divorce. Bethany, a goth girl, is dealing with coming of age and working in what Coupland referred to in his 1991 novel, Generation X as a McJob.

What brings the characters together is a journal that Roger has decided to keep. In the journal, Roger begins to discuss his issues and his pressing thoughts, including a novel he would like to write called “Glove Pond." Bethany finds this journal, and writes a letter to Roger. In the letter, Bethany says they should continue to write to each other, but to pretend that they know nothing about each other outside of the letters themselves at work. After writing letters back and forth, Roger and Bethany strike up a friendship in the letters.

Soon, more letters are included in the book from other characters, for instance, from Bethany’s mother, DeeDee, who went out on a date with Roger, and also went to high school with him. Other letters include a letter from Roger’s wife, emails from employees within the store, and more.

Interspersed within the main text is the novel within the novel: Glove Pond. As Roger begins to write Glove Pond, different characters in the novel respond to his writing in their letters. The Glove Pond sections are interspersed within the other letters.
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I'll leave this very non-fictional man below in because I wasn't thinking when I posted my OP ;)

Iain [M] Banks


Fun fact : Iain Banks came to my Primary School when I was 8 years old and he gave me a pen. I had no idea who he was :)

Come on then GD, who would your two be?
 
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[FnG]magnolia;19392875 said:
Whoops, brain fart :)

Let's just call it 'People' not 'Fictional People'
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Ahh, I understand now :D


I remember reading about Bruce Lee's mindset ages ago and thought he would make a great person to have a deep chat with.

I'd like to talk to Adolf Hitler and try to talk him out of Nazism for the lulz if nothing else. :D

JK Rowling would be good. I'm not a Harry Potter fan, but I'd love a chat with a proper, successful author. Plus, she can buy the Skol.
 
Jack Reacher, now theres a good one.
Not fictional but I think a week eating raw turtles and jumping off cliffs with Bear looks like fun. (Yes I do know its a bit staged but he is intereseting if you read his book.)
 
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