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Post by callipygias on Dec 11, 2010 14:25:46 GMT -5
Not necessarily live the storyline over and over (though that's fine too), but live within the world of a book, which one (or ones) would you choose? Consider Pancake Island, the happiest place in the world!
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Post by solgroupie on Dec 11, 2010 20:37:39 GMT -5
though i know i'll probably think of others, the great gatsby was the first one i thought of. i love the time the book is set in (1922) and i loved the simplicity of the settings. i first read the book when i was around 18 or 19 and i had a crush on nick, rather than gatsby. nick wasn't too driven with his career and felt moved to be gatsby's only friend and help him reunite with daisy. he seemed like a cool guy. i would have loved to attend one of gatsby's parties and lounge around with jordon drinking bootleg gin and listen to spoiled daisy talk about how loved she is.
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Post by callipygias on Dec 11, 2010 22:28:19 GMT -5
I thought you might think of that one, only I thought you'd think of it second.
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Post by solgroupie on Dec 12, 2010 2:31:51 GMT -5
actually, i did think of that one. it is somewhere i'd like to visit, but only if i could come back before the yankees started that disruptive war.
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Post by jkazoolien on Dec 12, 2010 10:30:06 GMT -5
When I saw the silhouette, it looked like Winnie the Pooh at first. The Hundred Acre Wood would be a fun place to live.
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Post by callipygias on Dec 12, 2010 12:10:25 GMT -5
That's so funny. The first thing I thought of was how cool it would be to live in Lovecraft land, like At the Mountains of Madness, discovering ancient, mysterious things at the edge of the world. But I decided I could only do that if I could jump back-and-forth to Winnie the Pooh when I got too scared or too cold.
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Post by GProopdog on Dec 12, 2010 20:13:30 GMT -5
One word: Discworld.
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Post by Crowfan on Dec 14, 2010 12:41:29 GMT -5
actually, i did think of that one. it is somewhere i'd like to visit, but only if i could come back before the yankees started that disruptive war. I beg to differ. ;D
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Post by inlovewithcrow on Dec 20, 2010 12:32:30 GMT -5
gee, many of them. Put me on a ship a la Master and Commander fighting Napoleon, make me break hard soil with pioneers, let me be a musketeer in France, allow me to test my mettle in a post-apocolyptic world, give me a shot at Oz.... If I could vacation in fictional lands, I'd find it fascinating.
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Post by solgroupie on Dec 21, 2010 20:56:36 GMT -5
^the wizard of oz is a good one. i wish i had thought of that one.
i was thinking of a book called fortune's rocks, by anita shreve. i love how she tells a story, and this is one about a privileged girl who comes of age the summer of 1899. it is another time of history i am fascinated with.
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Post by callipygias on Jan 11, 2011 22:11:11 GMT -5
I think living in Pride and Prejudice would be nice and comfortable. I'd like to hang out with Mr. Bennett. Lounge around his roomy library all day sipping grape juice, discussing things in a droll way, no responsibilities, four daughters.
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Post by Torgo on Jan 19, 2011 19:25:04 GMT -5
Kama Sutra
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Post by Afgncaap5 on Jan 19, 2011 21:07:51 GMT -5
Hmm. Discworld would be fun if it was the right part of Discworld. With my luck, though, I'd wind up being the first one to die at the hands of whatever ancient or primordial threat was just on the verge of breaking in. Wouldn't get to live long enough to see the victory.
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Post by siamesesin on Jan 20, 2011 14:42:46 GMT -5
Too many of my favorite time periods or fake worlds have a lot of discomfort involved (see Servo's Medieval Rant ;D ). I'm too fond of my right to vote and frequent bathing. That said, there's some lovely books by Galen Barrett that are set in a kind of Edwardian-like enviroment with a bit of magic and such thrown in that I like. Or maybe Charles Stross' Merchant Princes books (the first ones!) and being able to jump around universes. And I'll never stop wishing for one of Anne McCaffrey's fire lizards.
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Post by mummifiedstalin on Jan 20, 2011 16:23:47 GMT -5
I used to think about this a lot when I was a kid and sincerely tried to figure out how to get to Middle Earth. I had this whole little fantasy about how I'd be Gandalf's apprentice so that I could see all the adventure but not have to worry about dying. (I never figured out how I'd survive the Balrog, though...go figure.)
But then I realized that it was even uncomfortable just walking around Renaissance festivals, much less actually having to live in filth.
That said, Iain M. Banks' Culture novels would be a fascinating technological and cultural experience to play with. Stross's stuff and all of his post-singularity things would be cool, too, sia, you're right. Michael Moorcock's "End of Time" world would also be a fascinating place to play.
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