 Hello everybody, E here welcome back to top five Friday where I list my top five of any given thing Given given thing whatever So today we are talking about my top five literary pairings. These are not the top five greatest of all time Objectively this is my list subjectively. It's what I like Do what you do do what you like and leave all them comments down there in the doobly-doo Just know that this is not the end all be all you think that this would you know, this is common knowledge But common knowledge ain't common anymore either is common sense anyways But yeah, this is just my opinion leave your opinions down there in the doobly-doo. Let's just jump right into it though at number Five all right at number five. We have Angel and Louis Louis either one the audiobooks go back and forth talking about them It's a Louis. I'm gonna call him Louis Angel and Charlie Parker those three together are absolute perfection Anytime Angel or Louis pop up in the books. It is always hilarious Their dialogue is always the best part of the novel and if I'm completely honest It's the whole reason why I continued through the middle books that were really rather boring to me I wasn't a huge fan of the Reapers Which is their book alone and the new one the nameless ones is just them as So that's why I added Charlie Parker to this because I like the way these three characters interact They are absolutely fantastic together. I don't know why I didn't care too much for the Reapers It's just one of those books that I don't know It just didn't didn't do as much for me as let's say the books that are more Parker centric But yeah, so this is my number five. It was almost an honorable mention, but I decided to knock one thing off I'm not even sure if I'm gonna talk about that or not But I decided to cut one of those one of these things off because it just didn't even though I love them just didn't fit in this list if you if you can dig it Let's move on number four Joe Goldberg and Guinevere Beck alright number four. I almost put love here But I think I like Beck and Joe more than I like love and Joe The reasoning for that is because I don't know how love and Joe's story ends yet. Yes, I still have to read I Still have yet to read you love me I'm kind of guessing I don't know anything about the book, but I'm kind of guessing there's a there's a there's a baby involved I don't know maybe I have no idea, but Someone someone kind of spoiled it for me. I think there's a baby involved, but there's two more books And they might have been talking about the next one, so I don't know But yeah, so these two These two have such weird great chemistry, especially for a stalker and a stocky relationship Because Beck doesn't know she's getting stopped Whoo, it's it's rough, but when they are together man, it's it's it's hot I don't consider too many fictional characters hot But I think their relationship when they are together not the stalkery shit don't get me wrong But I feel like they were fantastic together while they were on the page And the you series I thought it's absolutely amazing series if you have not watched it It's on Netflix go and fuck that number three. Okay, so my number three is something Probably not a lot of you have read because every time I mention this book It either has its die-hard fans or it has people who've never heard of it and that is Flint Murtaugh and pelvis Isley from gone south by Robert McCammon These two characters are absolutely fantastic. They steal the show Completely I'm not gonna spoil it for any of you guys who have who have not read the book But and that's one of the problems with talking about something that's a little more niche and a little more unknown Just like when I was talking about ink last week. I didn't want to give you guys any I hope it was last week. Anyways, I didn't want to give you guys any kind of spoilers What's over for it and I'm feeling that way now, but the thing that makes flint Clint his brother Clint is what makes flint so great if you've read it, you know what I'm talking about and of course pelvis Isley Just think about what that name entails I don't want to ruin it for you It's these two characters the way they interact with each other absolutely Fantastic and the only one that's well only two that are better than this is number two Theo Decker and Boris Pavle Pavlikowski, I didn't say that right you it's from the Goldfinch So Boris and Theo from the Goldfinch reading about these two men Amazing I don't I don't know how I don't know how to put it there. They're fantastic together The and I'm gonna I know this is gonna it the these two I know people ship them and And and I don't I'm not entirely comfortable with hearing about you know people shipping, you know, these two boys, but Later on in life. I Think that there should have been something I just it was it was so heavy in the book And something that I hear they tone down for the movie I've never been able to finish the movie it bored me to tears Which a lot of you say about the book and I was like what but anyways, I think these two characters should have ended up together or there should have been more sexual tension with them as adults and There was some don't get me wrong It was a very chasey Amy chasing Amy kind of thing where you know, they had their moment and That's all it was and they grew up. They you know, they They ended up in two completely different worlds But not really and then they end up coming back together later in life And although I love the way the book ends fantastic ending I still would have liked to see no more of that but Just say more of that is basically what I got as them as younger boys But you know older I wanted to see them as mature adults Dealing with their feelings and that's something that never happened number one. Okay, so at number one I almost put I'm just I'm gonna go ahead and tell you guys This was my number five was going to be wireman and Edgar from do makey So that's my honorable mention But I didn't want to do any King for this because once again, I want to ask you guys. How would you guys like this list? Like my top five Stephen King pairings If you guys want that then I'll do something like that But my number one just so you're not confused. That was gonna be my number five And it ended up being an honorable mention This one is number one and that it always probably always will be my number one And that is Francis dollar hide and Reba. I can never remember her last name From red dragon. This is one of the greatest love stories of all time period. It's not in a romance book It's not it's not in any contemporary. It's well. It is a contemporary, but it's not in any Quote-unquote, you know romantic fiction any of that stuff. It is in a thread written by Thomas Harris the love story of Dollar hide and Reba is if you if you've watched Hannibal season 3 It's almost then I think they damn near quoted the the entire book all of their dialogues pretty much the same That whole arc is pretty much the same the scene with the tiger is absolutely amazing that I Have not found a better coupling a better literary Pairing than these two characters. I have never believed and loved so much than when I was reading that book or watching Hannibal season 3 Unfortunately, you have to get through the boring hat the boring front half of Hannibal season 3 to get to the dollar hide Story because they somehow merge Hannibal the book and red dragon into one season whatever This there there's so much Not off-screen passion. There's just there's so much chemistry between the two actors But in it's the same chemistry that the characters have in the book I I really don't know how else to what else to say how else to put this other than it is perfection If you ever if you have read red dragon or if you haven't you go back in either re-read it or read it for the first Time and pay close attention to the tragedy Well, not just the tragedy, but to the love that happens before the tragedy All that stuff leading up to that is that's some I don't want to say Steinbeck, but that's some classic Level love story and it's one of the only ones that I actually believe So yeah, that's easily my number one top pairing in literature. I will do this again with Stephen King Characters if you guys want me to I'm actually kind of looking forward to it But I want to give you guys what you want So if you want that definitely tell me down there in the doobly-doo also, let me know which you know, what's your top five? Literary pairings or better yet Just your top five pairings ever it could be movie it could be any of that stuff or maybe just one What's your favorite pairing leave all that stuff down there in the doobly-doo so we can have a discussion about it But until next time I have any you've been you this has been another top five Friday. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye. Bye