Last Character Reading List

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We posed the following scenario to the entire Grammarly team:

You are now the main character in the last book you read. Who are you?

Here are the answers by team:

Copywriting and Editing

Tina Fey in Bossypants by Tina Fey

http://www.amazon.com/Bossypants-Tina-Fey/dp/0316056898

Bill Bryson from In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson

http://www.amazon.com/In-Sunburned-Country-Bill-Bryson/dp/0767903862

Design

Mr. Tompkins from The Deadline: A Novel About Project Management by Tom DeMarco

http://www.amazon.com/Tom-DeMarco/e/B000AP7OPO/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1

Malachi Constant from The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut

http://www.amazon.com/Sirens-Titan-Kurt-Vonnegut-ebook/dp/B003XREM5G/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1436186580&sr=1-1&keywords=Sirens+of+TItan

Michaelangelo in The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone

http://www.amazon.com/Agony-Ecstasy-Biographical-Novel-Michelangelo/dp/0451171357/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1436186613&sr=1-1&keywords=The+Agony+and+THe+Ecstasy

Development

Steve Jobs in Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader by Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli

http://www.amazon.com/Becoming-Steve-Jobs-Evolution-Visionary/dp/0385347405

Chris Kyle from American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History by Chris Kyle, Scott McEwen , and Jim DeFelice

http://www.amazon.com/American-Sniper-Autobiography-Military-History/dp/0062238868

Tulshuk Lingpa in A Step Away from Paradise: A Tibetan Lama’s Extraordinary Journey to a Land of Immortality by Thomas Shor

http://www.amazon.com/Step-Away-Paradise-Extraordinary-Immortality-ebook/dp/B006TR0Y7W

Harry Potter in Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality by Eliezer Yudkowsky

http://hpmor.com

Konstantin Levin from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

http://www.amazon.com/Anna-Karenina-Leo-Tolstoy/dp/0143035002

Preem Palver from Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov

http://www.amazon.com/Second-Foundation-Novels-Isaac-Asimov/dp/0553293362

Henry Rearden and Dagny Taggart from Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

http://www.amazon.com/Atlas-Shrugged-Ayn-Rand/dp/0452011876

Stephen Dedalus in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4217/4217-h/4217-h.htm

Howard W. Campbell Jr. in Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut

http://www.amazon.com/Mother-Night-Novel-Kurt-Vonnegut/dp/0385334141

Valentine Michael Smith from Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein

http://www.amazon.com/Stranger-Strange-Land-Remembering-Tomorrow/dp/0441790348

Robert Childan in The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick

http://www.amazon.com/The-High-Castle-Philip-Dick/dp/0547572484

Executive Team

Moydodyr from “Moydodyr” by Korney Chukovsky

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moydodyr

Sal Paradise from On the Road by Jack Kerouac

http://www.amazon.com/On-Road-Jack-Kerouac/dp/0140283293

Narrator from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert M. Pirsig

http://www.amazon.com/Zen-Art-Motorcycle-Maintenance-Inquiry/dp/0060589469

Linguists and Feature Development

Rincewind in The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Colour-Of-Magic-Discworld/dp/0552166596

Lenina Crowne and Bernard Marx from Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

http://www.amazon.com/Brave-New-World-Aldous-Huxley/dp/0060850523

Teddy in “Teddy” from Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger

http://www.amazon.com/Nine-Stories-J-D-Salinger/dp/0316769509

Bernhard Riemann from Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics by John Derbyshire

http://www.amazon.com/Prime-Obsession-Bernhard-Greatest-Mathematics/dp/0452285259

Topāzu from Tokyo Decadence by Ryū Murakami

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7946966-tokyo-decadence

Hiranyaka the Mouse from Panchatantra by Pandit Vishnu Sharma

http://www.amazon.com/Panchatantra-Pandit-Vishnu-Sharma/dp/8171670652

Kaname from Some Prefer Nettles by Junichiro Tanizaki

http://www.amazon.com/Some-Prefer-Nettles-Junichiro-Tanizaki/dp/0679752692

Guy Montag in Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

http://www.amazon.com/Fahrenheit-451-Novel-Ray-Bradbury/dp/1451673310

Marketing

Andrew Wiggin in Ender in Exile by Orson Scott Card

http://www.amazon.com/Ender-Exile-The-Quintet/dp/0765344157

Tsukuru Tazaki from Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami

http://www.amazon.com/Colorless-Tsukuru-Tazaki-Years-Pilgrimage/dp/1846558336

Tyrone Slothrop in Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

http://www.amazon.com/Gravitys-Rainbow-Penguin-Classics-Deluxe/dp/0143039946/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=&qid=

Sales

Roberto della Griva from The Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco

http://www.amazon.com/The-Island-Day-Before-Umberto/dp/0156030373

Arthas from Arthas: Rise of the Lich King by Christie Golden

http://www.amazon.com/World-Warcraft-Arthas-Rise-Pocket/dp/143915760X

Henry Rearden and Dagny Taggart from Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

http://www.amazon.com/Atlas-Shrugged-Ayn-Rand/dp/0452011876

Paul Atreides or Muad’Dib from Dune by Frank Herbert

http://www.amazon.com/Dune-Frank-Herbert/dp/0441172717

Support

Sherlock Holmes in The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2852/2852-h/2852-h.htm

Richard from The Secret History by Donna Tartt

http://www.amazon.com/The-Secret-History-Donna-Tartt/dp/1400031702

Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin in Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2638/2638-h/2638-h.htm

Which character are you? Which character will you be next?

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