Aug. 24th, 2006

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After chatting to [livejournal.com profile] robinbloke about Harry Harrison's Stainless Steel Rat books the other day I was inspired to go back and read them again, as they're tremendous fun. Whilst reading them I was reminded that the first time I started reading them when I was about 11 just how much I wanted to be Slippery Jim diGriz.
I think this is a phase everyone goes through when they're little - wanting to grow up to be a character from their favourite books. With me it was Slippery Jim, or Shasta from The horse and his boy, or possibly Gimli, son of Gloin*.
As I got older, I wanted to be Ming the Merciless. I still do.

When you were little, which fictional character(s) did you want to be when you grew up?

*An ambition cruelly scuppered by my brother.

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