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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 1017 Views
Atlas Shrugged or maybe a song of ice and fire. *NM* Urza - 19/02/2010 12:14:04 PM 257 Views
Re: Atlas Shrugged or maybe a song of ice and fire. lil lady - 22/02/2010 05:42:40 PM 669 Views
Much <3 for that. *NM* Urza - 24/02/2010 02:26:47 PM 323 Views
Alice in Wonderland! *NM* cabbage - 19/02/2010 12:22:06 PM 267 Views
Oh, and why. cabbage - 19/02/2010 12:23:31 PM 631 Views
Try to nab me the Cheshire cat nossy - 19/02/2010 12:42:27 PM 644 Views
Off with her head!! StarrBecca - 19/02/2010 01:26:42 PM 559 Views
Re: But God would be a paedophile. *NM* Danae al'Thor - 19/02/2010 01:51:55 PM 379 Views
Would be my choice too. *NM* Jonielle - 19/02/2010 02:19:51 PM 274 Views
Yesssssss. Liam - 20/02/2010 01:47:59 AM 664 Views
I saw it. Lici - 20/02/2010 04:28:40 PM 560 Views
Maybe the Shire? ironclad - 19/02/2010 12:36:12 PM 673 Views
That's a good one. nossy - 19/02/2010 12:43:42 PM 637 Views
Iain M Banks's Culture novels snoopcester - 19/02/2010 12:40:48 PM 591 Views
That would make me nervous. nossy - 19/02/2010 12:45:24 PM 588 Views
You are such a wimp snoopcester - 19/02/2010 12:47:32 PM 513 Views
Maybe nossy - 19/02/2010 01:10:10 PM 528 Views
Bah snoopcester - 19/02/2010 01:20:10 PM 681 Views
You actually had a good answer for once. LiterateDog - 19/02/2010 02:14:19 PM 636 Views
Re: Iain M Banks's Culture novels lyringlas - 19/02/2010 04:12:56 PM 644 Views
(I'm just kidding; this would make me a horrible person *coughs *NM* lyringlas - 19/02/2010 04:13:30 PM 277 Views
me too! temeraire - 19/02/2010 05:24:45 PM 529 Views
Re: Do you know, I actually cannot say. Danae al'Thor - 19/02/2010 01:49:36 PM 667 Views
Re: OOH OOH I would love to be in the Jasper Fforde novels! Danae al'Thor - 19/02/2010 01:51:11 PM 632 Views
Is it that obvious that I just read The Eyre Affair? nossy - 19/02/2010 01:56:21 PM 628 Views
Re: You think you are competition for Elizabeth? Danae al'Thor - 19/02/2010 01:57:56 PM 662 Views
I'm not sure. I could always out-violence her, surely. nossy - 19/02/2010 01:59:56 PM 650 Views
Re: <laughs out loud> Danae al'Thor - 19/02/2010 02:01:58 PM 647 Views
Little House on the Prairie Elaine - 19/02/2010 02:06:45 PM 672 Views
I'd be totally useless in that series. nossy - 19/02/2010 02:39:58 PM 641 Views
Oooh I love the Outlander series! *NM* Lady Leslie - 19/02/2010 06:53:13 PM 378 Views
depends what "my role" can be LadyLorraine - 19/02/2010 02:21:54 PM 694 Views
You are you. So whatever you can do. nossy - 19/02/2010 02:41:11 PM 546 Views
oh in that case. I think i'm better off staying here LadyLorraine - 19/02/2010 06:43:02 PM 651 Views
One of those science fiction ones. jh - 19/02/2010 02:58:55 PM 531 Views
O c'mon now, surely you can think of one? nossy - 19/02/2010 03:11:14 PM 565 Views
Not really. Problem with most works of science fiction is that... jh - 19/02/2010 03:18:26 PM 672 Views
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heh nossy - 19/02/2010 03:17:27 PM 694 Views
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You forgot "free love" JasonD - 28/02/2010 11:31:18 PM 663 Views
That is a really tough question. Mats Gambling Buddy - 19/02/2010 04:04:35 PM 657 Views
I'd totally be a Narnian! *NM* ranagrande - 19/02/2010 04:08:37 PM 379 Views
House of Suns random thoughts - 19/02/2010 04:14:45 PM 572 Views
1984 smaug - 19/02/2010 05:19:48 PM 690 Views
The Culture, as written by Iain M. Banks. Tim - 19/02/2010 05:37:47 PM 570 Views
I haven't read that, but based on your description Lupine - 19/02/2010 06:59:37 PM 556 Views
Gondolin Maria - 19/02/2010 06:16:46 PM 633 Views
Mine is so lame. Lame lame lame. Lupine - 19/02/2010 06:57:54 PM 604 Views
Re: Babe, some of them would be ultra mean to you! Danae al'Thor - 19/02/2010 07:15:35 PM 607 Views
Young again? ironclad - 20/02/2010 04:29:24 PM 836 Views
I'm totaly marrying Mr.Darcy... *NM* Milla - 21/02/2010 07:29:09 AM 208 Views
Letters to Penthouse. *NM* TaskmasterJack - 19/02/2010 07:29:13 PM 347 Views
Color me shocked. Mats Gambling Buddy - 20/02/2010 08:02:31 PM 647 Views
Re: Color me shocked. TaskmasterJack - 20/02/2010 09:06:24 PM 774 Views
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Thursday Next, maybe. Would that be cheating? Liam - 20/02/2010 01:59:24 AM 497 Views
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Some really hot erotica. *NM* everynametaken - 20/02/2010 05:55:13 AM 331 Views
The Shannarah books *NM* Hieshyn - 20/02/2010 04:04:59 PM 300 Views
Nothing by Cormac McCarthy... *NM* TheCrownless - 20/02/2010 10:57:34 PM 350 Views
Anything I would touch would end up a la "Lost In Austen" Two Wongs - 22/02/2010 12:44:34 PM 530 Views
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