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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 1201 Views
Atlas Shrugged or maybe a song of ice and fire. *NM* Urza - 19/02/2010 12:14:04 PM 333 Views
Re: Atlas Shrugged or maybe a song of ice and fire. lil lady - 22/02/2010 05:42:40 PM 910 Views
Much <3 for that. *NM* Urza - 24/02/2010 02:26:47 PM 402 Views
Alice in Wonderland! *NM* cabbage - 19/02/2010 12:22:06 PM 333 Views
Oh, and why. cabbage - 19/02/2010 12:23:31 PM 832 Views
Try to nab me the Cheshire cat nossy - 19/02/2010 12:42:27 PM 813 Views
Off with her head!! StarrBecca - 19/02/2010 01:26:42 PM 739 Views
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Would be my choice too. *NM* Jonielle - 19/02/2010 02:19:51 PM 339 Views
Yesssssss. Liam - 20/02/2010 01:47:59 AM 837 Views
I saw it. Lici - 20/02/2010 04:28:40 PM 742 Views
Maybe the Shire? ironclad - 19/02/2010 12:36:12 PM 854 Views
That's a good one. nossy - 19/02/2010 12:43:42 PM 817 Views
Iain M Banks's Culture novels snoopcester - 19/02/2010 12:40:48 PM 774 Views
That would make me nervous. nossy - 19/02/2010 12:45:24 PM 743 Views
You are such a wimp snoopcester - 19/02/2010 12:47:32 PM 662 Views
Maybe nossy - 19/02/2010 01:10:10 PM 698 Views
Bah snoopcester - 19/02/2010 01:20:10 PM 846 Views
You actually had a good answer for once. LiterateDog - 19/02/2010 02:14:19 PM 815 Views
Re: Iain M Banks's Culture novels lyringlas - 19/02/2010 04:12:56 PM 836 Views
(I'm just kidding; this would make me a horrible person *coughs *NM* lyringlas - 19/02/2010 04:13:30 PM 340 Views
me too! temeraire - 19/02/2010 05:24:45 PM 693 Views
Re: Do you know, I actually cannot say. Danae al'Thor - 19/02/2010 01:49:36 PM 826 Views
Re: OOH OOH I would love to be in the Jasper Fforde novels! Danae al'Thor - 19/02/2010 01:51:11 PM 830 Views
Is it that obvious that I just read The Eyre Affair? nossy - 19/02/2010 01:56:21 PM 791 Views
Re: You think you are competition for Elizabeth? Danae al'Thor - 19/02/2010 01:57:56 PM 833 Views
I'm not sure. I could always out-violence her, surely. nossy - 19/02/2010 01:59:56 PM 810 Views
Re: <laughs out loud> Danae al'Thor - 19/02/2010 02:01:58 PM 837 Views
Little House on the Prairie Elaine - 19/02/2010 02:06:45 PM 855 Views
I'd be totally useless in that series. nossy - 19/02/2010 02:39:58 PM 817 Views
Oooh I love the Outlander series! *NM* Lady Leslie - 19/02/2010 06:53:13 PM 456 Views
depends what "my role" can be LadyLorraine - 19/02/2010 02:21:54 PM 878 Views
You are you. So whatever you can do. nossy - 19/02/2010 02:41:11 PM 717 Views
oh in that case. I think i'm better off staying here LadyLorraine - 19/02/2010 06:43:02 PM 827 Views
One of those science fiction ones. jh - 19/02/2010 02:58:55 PM 702 Views
O c'mon now, surely you can think of one? nossy - 19/02/2010 03:11:14 PM 742 Views
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heh nossy - 19/02/2010 03:17:27 PM 875 Views
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You forgot "free love" JasonD - 28/02/2010 11:31:18 PM 830 Views
That is a really tough question. Mats Gambling Buddy - 19/02/2010 04:04:35 PM 835 Views
I'd totally be a Narnian! *NM* ranagrande - 19/02/2010 04:08:37 PM 454 Views
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The Culture, as written by Iain M. Banks. Tim - 19/02/2010 05:37:47 PM 735 Views
I haven't read that, but based on your description Lupine - 19/02/2010 06:59:37 PM 726 Views
Gondolin Maria - 19/02/2010 06:16:46 PM 804 Views
Mine is so lame. Lame lame lame. Lupine - 19/02/2010 06:57:54 PM 768 Views
Re: Babe, some of them would be ultra mean to you! Danae al'Thor - 19/02/2010 07:15:35 PM 764 Views
Young again? ironclad - 20/02/2010 04:29:24 PM 1004 Views
I'm totaly marrying Mr.Darcy... *NM* Milla - 21/02/2010 07:29:09 AM 286 Views
Letters to Penthouse. *NM* TaskmasterJack - 19/02/2010 07:29:13 PM 447 Views
Color me shocked. Mats Gambling Buddy - 20/02/2010 08:02:31 PM 820 Views
Re: Color me shocked. TaskmasterJack - 20/02/2010 09:06:24 PM 963 Views
I'm pretty sure our whole existence Kuke - 19/02/2010 10:37:09 PM 712 Views
Thursday Next, maybe. Would that be cheating? Liam - 20/02/2010 01:59:24 AM 674 Views
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Some really hot erotica. *NM* everynametaken - 20/02/2010 05:55:13 AM 416 Views
The Shannarah books *NM* Hieshyn - 20/02/2010 04:04:59 PM 376 Views
Nothing by Cormac McCarthy... *NM* TheCrownless - 20/02/2010 10:57:34 PM 433 Views
Anything I would touch would end up a la "Lost In Austen" Two Wongs - 22/02/2010 12:44:34 PM 714 Views
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