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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 1247 Views
Atlas Shrugged or maybe a song of ice and fire. *NM* Urza - 19/02/2010 12:14:04 PM 352 Views
Re: Atlas Shrugged or maybe a song of ice and fire. lil lady - 22/02/2010 05:42:40 PM 963 Views
Much <3 for that. *NM* Urza - 24/02/2010 02:26:47 PM 424 Views
Alice in Wonderland! *NM* cabbage - 19/02/2010 12:22:06 PM 351 Views
Oh, and why. cabbage - 19/02/2010 12:23:31 PM 892 Views
Try to nab me the Cheshire cat nossy - 19/02/2010 12:42:27 PM 870 Views
Off with her head!! StarrBecca - 19/02/2010 01:26:42 PM 791 Views
Re: But God would be a paedophile. *NM* Danae al'Thor - 19/02/2010 01:51:55 PM 472 Views
Would be my choice too. *NM* Jonielle - 19/02/2010 02:19:51 PM 360 Views
Yesssssss. Liam - 20/02/2010 01:47:59 AM 895 Views
I saw it. Lici - 20/02/2010 04:28:40 PM 793 Views
Maybe the Shire? ironclad - 19/02/2010 12:36:12 PM 915 Views
That's a good one. nossy - 19/02/2010 12:43:42 PM 872 Views
Iain M Banks's Culture novels snoopcester - 19/02/2010 12:40:48 PM 824 Views
That would make me nervous. nossy - 19/02/2010 12:45:24 PM 786 Views
You are such a wimp snoopcester - 19/02/2010 12:47:32 PM 723 Views
Maybe nossy - 19/02/2010 01:10:10 PM 760 Views
Bah snoopcester - 19/02/2010 01:20:10 PM 895 Views
You actually had a good answer for once. LiterateDog - 19/02/2010 02:14:19 PM 862 Views
Re: Iain M Banks's Culture novels lyringlas - 19/02/2010 04:12:56 PM 891 Views
(I'm just kidding; this would make me a horrible person *coughs *NM* lyringlas - 19/02/2010 04:13:30 PM 367 Views
me too! temeraire - 19/02/2010 05:24:45 PM 755 Views
Re: Do you know, I actually cannot say. Danae al'Thor - 19/02/2010 01:49:36 PM 872 Views
Re: OOH OOH I would love to be in the Jasper Fforde novels! Danae al'Thor - 19/02/2010 01:51:11 PM 886 Views
Is it that obvious that I just read The Eyre Affair? nossy - 19/02/2010 01:56:21 PM 844 Views
Re: You think you are competition for Elizabeth? Danae al'Thor - 19/02/2010 01:57:56 PM 895 Views
I'm not sure. I could always out-violence her, surely. nossy - 19/02/2010 01:59:56 PM 868 Views
Re: <laughs out loud> Danae al'Thor - 19/02/2010 02:01:58 PM 896 Views
Little House on the Prairie Elaine - 19/02/2010 02:06:45 PM 900 Views
I'd be totally useless in that series. nossy - 19/02/2010 02:39:58 PM 859 Views
Oooh I love the Outlander series! *NM* Lady Leslie - 19/02/2010 06:53:13 PM 479 Views
depends what "my role" can be LadyLorraine - 19/02/2010 02:21:54 PM 929 Views
You are you. So whatever you can do. nossy - 19/02/2010 02:41:11 PM 763 Views
oh in that case. I think i'm better off staying here LadyLorraine - 19/02/2010 06:43:02 PM 872 Views
One of those science fiction ones. jh - 19/02/2010 02:58:55 PM 760 Views
O c'mon now, surely you can think of one? nossy - 19/02/2010 03:11:14 PM 793 Views
Not really. Problem with most works of science fiction is that... jh - 19/02/2010 03:18:26 PM 888 Views
The Importance of Being Earnest Mark - 19/02/2010 03:12:17 PM 774 Views
heh nossy - 19/02/2010 03:17:27 PM 927 Views
All I would need to do is get christened Mark - 19/02/2010 03:27:26 PM 782 Views
I'd go into Robert Heinlein's Future History Brian - 19/02/2010 03:56:53 PM 829 Views
You forgot "free love" JasonD - 28/02/2010 11:31:18 PM 885 Views
That is a really tough question. Mats Gambling Buddy - 19/02/2010 04:04:35 PM 895 Views
I'd totally be a Narnian! *NM* ranagrande - 19/02/2010 04:08:37 PM 477 Views
House of Suns random thoughts - 19/02/2010 04:14:45 PM 798 Views
1984 smaug - 19/02/2010 05:19:48 PM 924 Views
The Culture, as written by Iain M. Banks. Tim - 19/02/2010 05:37:47 PM 790 Views
I haven't read that, but based on your description Lupine - 19/02/2010 06:59:37 PM 771 Views
Gondolin Maria - 19/02/2010 06:16:46 PM 865 Views
Mine is so lame. Lame lame lame. Lupine - 19/02/2010 06:57:54 PM 822 Views
Re: Babe, some of them would be ultra mean to you! Danae al'Thor - 19/02/2010 07:15:35 PM 817 Views
Young again? ironclad - 20/02/2010 04:29:24 PM 1061 Views
I'm totaly marrying Mr.Darcy... *NM* Milla - 21/02/2010 07:29:09 AM 313 Views
Letters to Penthouse. *NM* TaskmasterJack - 19/02/2010 07:29:13 PM 470 Views
Color me shocked. Mats Gambling Buddy - 20/02/2010 08:02:31 PM 878 Views
Re: Color me shocked. TaskmasterJack - 20/02/2010 09:06:24 PM 1017 Views
I'm pretty sure our whole existence Kuke - 19/02/2010 10:37:09 PM 776 Views
Thursday Next, maybe. Would that be cheating? Liam - 20/02/2010 01:59:24 AM 734 Views
Hogwarts Student Colonel Logain - 20/02/2010 04:07:25 AM 853 Views
Some really hot erotica. *NM* everynametaken - 20/02/2010 05:55:13 AM 438 Views
The Shannarah books *NM* Hieshyn - 20/02/2010 04:04:59 PM 400 Views
Nothing by Cormac McCarthy... *NM* TheCrownless - 20/02/2010 10:57:34 PM 460 Views
Anything I would touch would end up a la "Lost In Austen" Two Wongs - 22/02/2010 12:44:34 PM 785 Views
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