10 Antiheroes in Literature That We Love to Hate
“There’s nothing that warms a girl’s heart like a smile on the face of a sadist.”
Harriet Daimler; After Claude, Iris Owens
Harriet is absolutely reprehensible and irredeemable and cruelly, hysterically funny and it is SO RARE that all these qualities exist in a female character that I don’t even care that this is probably the fourth time I’ve included this book in a list that I’ve written because I want everyone to read it RIGHT AWAY. Harriet is terrible. She does indefensibly awful things like set her roommate up to get raped by a stranger, which then leads to said roommate being put in a mental institution. But still? It’s impossible not to love Harriet because she’s hyper-aware about everything except her own behavior. She’s the kind of person you’d love to know for awhile, because she’d make you laugh till it hurt and get wasted with you and do deliriously fun things, but eventually you’d slowly back away, because you had to. She’s toxic. She’s poison. She’s the fucking best.