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Thursday Next, maybe. Would that be cheating? Liam Send a noteboard - 20/02/2010 01:59:24 AM
By "spend time," I mean that we have to pretend that the characters of a book exist within the frame of what has been written for them, but also that they exist while not on-screen (so to speak). They don't just disappear between the PoVs in which they are featured, and they have free will outside of those PoVs. The towns exist, their individual personalities, homes, families, friends exist, etc.

You could, I don't know, hang with them while off-screen, observe or *gasp* mess up the narrative!

Otoh, which work would you avoid like The Plague?
(chuckle)


Things like Wonderland/Looking Glass would be fantastic. Harry Potter or Chrestomanci would be really....nice...and that's fine by me.

There're a lot of really good books whose worlds just seem unpleasant. That'd be no fun.
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Oh, how simply grand it is to be travelling by dirigible again. Direct us to the west good sir, tonight we will remember what it is to live.
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If you could spend time in any written work, which would it be? And why? nossy - 19/02/2010 12:07:18 PM 1231 Views
Atlas Shrugged or maybe a song of ice and fire. *NM* Urza - 19/02/2010 12:14:04 PM 342 Views
Re: Atlas Shrugged or maybe a song of ice and fire. lil lady - 22/02/2010 05:42:40 PM 945 Views
Much <3 for that. *NM* Urza - 24/02/2010 02:26:47 PM 416 Views
Alice in Wonderland! *NM* cabbage - 19/02/2010 12:22:06 PM 343 Views
Oh, and why. cabbage - 19/02/2010 12:23:31 PM 865 Views
Try to nab me the Cheshire cat nossy - 19/02/2010 12:42:27 PM 848 Views
Off with her head!! StarrBecca - 19/02/2010 01:26:42 PM 765 Views
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Would be my choice too. *NM* Jonielle - 19/02/2010 02:19:51 PM 351 Views
Yesssssss. Liam - 20/02/2010 01:47:59 AM 864 Views
I saw it. Lici - 20/02/2010 04:28:40 PM 772 Views
Maybe the Shire? ironclad - 19/02/2010 12:36:12 PM 886 Views
That's a good one. nossy - 19/02/2010 12:43:42 PM 846 Views
Iain M Banks's Culture novels snoopcester - 19/02/2010 12:40:48 PM 805 Views
That would make me nervous. nossy - 19/02/2010 12:45:24 PM 771 Views
You are such a wimp snoopcester - 19/02/2010 12:47:32 PM 689 Views
Maybe nossy - 19/02/2010 01:10:10 PM 734 Views
Bah snoopcester - 19/02/2010 01:20:10 PM 873 Views
You actually had a good answer for once. LiterateDog - 19/02/2010 02:14:19 PM 846 Views
Re: Iain M Banks's Culture novels lyringlas - 19/02/2010 04:12:56 PM 866 Views
(I'm just kidding; this would make me a horrible person *coughs *NM* lyringlas - 19/02/2010 04:13:30 PM 357 Views
me too! temeraire - 19/02/2010 05:24:45 PM 723 Views
Re: Do you know, I actually cannot say. Danae al'Thor - 19/02/2010 01:49:36 PM 853 Views
Re: OOH OOH I would love to be in the Jasper Fforde novels! Danae al'Thor - 19/02/2010 01:51:11 PM 863 Views
Is it that obvious that I just read The Eyre Affair? nossy - 19/02/2010 01:56:21 PM 823 Views
Re: You think you are competition for Elizabeth? Danae al'Thor - 19/02/2010 01:57:56 PM 865 Views
I'm not sure. I could always out-violence her, surely. nossy - 19/02/2010 01:59:56 PM 842 Views
Re: <laughs out loud> Danae al'Thor - 19/02/2010 02:01:58 PM 873 Views
Little House on the Prairie Elaine - 19/02/2010 02:06:45 PM 881 Views
I'd be totally useless in that series. nossy - 19/02/2010 02:39:58 PM 843 Views
Oooh I love the Outlander series! *NM* Lady Leslie - 19/02/2010 06:53:13 PM 468 Views
depends what "my role" can be LadyLorraine - 19/02/2010 02:21:54 PM 907 Views
You are you. So whatever you can do. nossy - 19/02/2010 02:41:11 PM 738 Views
oh in that case. I think i'm better off staying here LadyLorraine - 19/02/2010 06:43:02 PM 857 Views
One of those science fiction ones. jh - 19/02/2010 02:58:55 PM 741 Views
O c'mon now, surely you can think of one? nossy - 19/02/2010 03:11:14 PM 767 Views
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heh nossy - 19/02/2010 03:17:27 PM 903 Views
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You forgot "free love" JasonD - 28/02/2010 11:31:18 PM 861 Views
That is a really tough question. Mats Gambling Buddy - 19/02/2010 04:04:35 PM 871 Views
I'd totally be a Narnian! *NM* ranagrande - 19/02/2010 04:08:37 PM 467 Views
House of Suns random thoughts - 19/02/2010 04:14:45 PM 779 Views
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The Culture, as written by Iain M. Banks. Tim - 19/02/2010 05:37:47 PM 769 Views
I haven't read that, but based on your description Lupine - 19/02/2010 06:59:37 PM 747 Views
Gondolin Maria - 19/02/2010 06:16:46 PM 831 Views
Mine is so lame. Lame lame lame. Lupine - 19/02/2010 06:57:54 PM 801 Views
Re: Babe, some of them would be ultra mean to you! Danae al'Thor - 19/02/2010 07:15:35 PM 797 Views
Young again? ironclad - 20/02/2010 04:29:24 PM 1036 Views
I'm totaly marrying Mr.Darcy... *NM* Milla - 21/02/2010 07:29:09 AM 303 Views
Letters to Penthouse. *NM* TaskmasterJack - 19/02/2010 07:29:13 PM 459 Views
Color me shocked. Mats Gambling Buddy - 20/02/2010 08:02:31 PM 849 Views
Re: Color me shocked. TaskmasterJack - 20/02/2010 09:06:24 PM 987 Views
I'm pretty sure our whole existence Kuke - 19/02/2010 10:37:09 PM 741 Views
Thursday Next, maybe. Would that be cheating? Liam - 20/02/2010 01:59:24 AM 713 Views
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Some really hot erotica. *NM* everynametaken - 20/02/2010 05:55:13 AM 427 Views
The Shannarah books *NM* Hieshyn - 20/02/2010 04:04:59 PM 393 Views
Nothing by Cormac McCarthy... *NM* TheCrownless - 20/02/2010 10:57:34 PM 451 Views
Anything I would touch would end up a la "Lost In Austen" Two Wongs - 22/02/2010 12:44:34 PM 758 Views
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