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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 633 Views
Try to nab me the Cheshire cat nossy - 19/02/2010 12:42:27 PM 645 Views
Off with her head!! StarrBecca - 19/02/2010 01:26:42 PM 560 Views
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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 665 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 675 Views
That's a good one. nossy - 19/02/2010 12:43:42 PM 638 Views
Iain M Banks's Culture novels snoopcester - 19/02/2010 12:40:48 PM 592 Views
That would make me nervous. nossy - 19/02/2010 12:45:24 PM 590 Views
You are such a wimp snoopcester - 19/02/2010 12:47:32 PM 516 Views
Maybe nossy - 19/02/2010 01:10:10 PM 529 Views
Bah snoopcester - 19/02/2010 01:20:10 PM 684 Views
You actually had a good answer for once. LiterateDog - 19/02/2010 02:14:19 PM 638 Views
Re: Iain M Banks's Culture novels lyringlas - 19/02/2010 04:12:56 PM 646 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 530 Views
Re: Do you know, I actually cannot say. Danae al'Thor - 19/02/2010 01:49:36 PM 669 Views
Re: OOH OOH I would love to be in the Jasper Fforde novels! Danae al'Thor - 19/02/2010 01:51:11 PM 635 Views
Is it that obvious that I just read The Eyre Affair? nossy - 19/02/2010 01:56:21 PM 629 Views
Re: You think you are competition for Elizabeth? Danae al'Thor - 19/02/2010 01:57:56 PM 664 Views
I'm not sure. I could always out-violence her, surely. nossy - 19/02/2010 01:59:56 PM 652 Views
Re: <laughs out loud> Danae al'Thor - 19/02/2010 02:01:58 PM 648 Views
Little House on the Prairie Elaine - 19/02/2010 02:06:45 PM 673 Views
I'd be totally useless in that series. nossy - 19/02/2010 02:39:58 PM 643 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 696 Views
You are you. So whatever you can do. nossy - 19/02/2010 02:41:11 PM 548 Views
oh in that case. I think i'm better off staying here LadyLorraine - 19/02/2010 06:43:02 PM 653 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 568 Views
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heh nossy - 19/02/2010 03:17:27 PM 696 Views
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You forgot "free love" JasonD - 28/02/2010 11:31:18 PM 666 Views
That is a really tough question. Mats Gambling Buddy - 19/02/2010 04:04:35 PM 658 Views
I'd totally be a Narnian! *NM* ranagrande - 19/02/2010 04:08:37 PM 379 Views
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The Culture, as written by Iain M. Banks. Tim - 19/02/2010 05:37:47 PM 572 Views
I haven't read that, but based on your description Lupine - 19/02/2010 06:59:37 PM 558 Views
Gondolin Maria - 19/02/2010 06:16:46 PM 635 Views
Mine is so lame. Lame lame lame. Lupine - 19/02/2010 06:57:54 PM 606 Views
Re: Babe, some of them would be ultra mean to you! Danae al'Thor - 19/02/2010 07:15:35 PM 609 Views
Young again? ironclad - 20/02/2010 04:29:24 PM 837 Views
I'm totaly marrying Mr.Darcy... *NM* Milla - 21/02/2010 07:29:09 AM 209 Views
Letters to Penthouse. *NM* TaskmasterJack - 19/02/2010 07:29:13 PM 348 Views
Color me shocked. Mats Gambling Buddy - 20/02/2010 08:02:31 PM 648 Views
Re: Color me shocked. TaskmasterJack - 20/02/2010 09:06:24 PM 776 Views
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Thursday Next, maybe. Would that be cheating? Liam - 20/02/2010 01:59:24 AM 499 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 532 Views
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