Spoiler for like, any book existing.
I think mine has to be the villain in Mirror Man. Idk, he wasn’t intimidating, he wasn’t interesting. He was meh.
Also the villains from The Chain. Dear God they weren’t sympathetic in the slightest. The book tries to act like they were atleast pitiful but FROM THEIR INCEPTION, they were just evil assholes who enjoyed causing pain. The book itself wasn’t all that great anyways.
Protagonist and also a villain, Humbert Humbert from Lolita is just the worst.
I wouldn’t call him a protagonist
Protagonist=/=good guy, just the main character who acts as the lens through which we see the story.
So is Nick the protagonist of gatsby even though it’s really mostly written about his observations of gatsby and others?
Yes, he is the lense, everything we see is through his perspective. And in the end, we learn his take away from all these events.
Came here to say this one
What did he do
There are many absolutely despicable villains in the literary world, but I agree Humbert is one of the absolute worst. I read Lolita ages ago and I’m still repulsed to this day.
It still baffles me how it gets misconstrued as a “love story” in popular culture
Literally no one calls it that, what?
It does?
I recently read Lolita and disagree. He’s incredibly evil but I think you’d need to be a mass murderer to even be considered for the most evil. He actually backed out of drowning charlotte earlier in the book (although he was for sure involved in her later death) and I don’t think everyone would have that same hesitation. I’m a new reader and struggle to name worse characters but I’d say the wizard from wicked takes it. Or someone like Cthulhu if you want to take that approach. Humbert Humbert is scary because he’s a more grounded and realistic evil but there’s constraints that come with the realism
I had to read that book in college. I fucking hate that book.
I never liked that guy!
Most insufferable character of all time.