Top Ten Tuesday hosted by The Broke and the Bookish  is back this week and the theme is names of characters.  Ones you love, hate, can’t pronounce or are simply indifferent to.  My picks:

1. The boy with no name – The Ocean at the end of the Lane by Neil Gaiman, the young boy’s name is never revealed?  I almost read the whole book without even realising that fact.
2. The Woman with no name – Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier – ditto the above!
3. The name that is also an ‘object’ – Door, from Neverwhere – also by Neil Gaiman.
4. Jean Tannen – a fantastic name (or do I just have a massive book crush) from Scott Lynch’s Gentlemen Bastard series.
5. A name you don’t want to mess with – Jorg from the Prince of Thorns by Mark Lawrence.  Really, if you’d like your head to stay where it currently sits, don’t mess with him!  I’m just saying.  Also I spent the whole series reading this as Jorg with a ‘J’ – I understand it’s actually Jorg but spoken as a ‘G” but I’m sorry I’ve got used to that name now and it’s stuck!
6. Seth – one of the Sithe (and a bit of mind candy if anyone is interested in that type of thing) from Firebrand – the rebel angel series written by Gillian Philip which is a totally excellent series that I adore.
7. Hobbit names – they all sound sort of cute don’t they?  Bilbo, Frodo, Merry and Pippin (don’t forget Samwise Gamgee!)
8. The brilliance of Harry – after all we have Harry Potter (JK Rowling) and Harry Dresden (Jim Butcher)
9. Iuda – who is the very embodiment of evil (pronounced Juda) – this guy is evil, dirty, smelly, bad breath, nasty, no remorse, no pity, you name it – what a great villain from Jasper Kent’s Danilov Quintet
10. A name that makes you smile – Sunshine from Robin McKinley’s book of the same name.  What a lovely name for a character!

Obviously can’t do this meme without a famous quote:

“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose, By any other name, would smell as sweet.”