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Post by HalcyonDaze on Oct 12, 2018 1:47:44 GMT -5
What places have you read about that sound just so amazing and have been described so lovingly by the author that you just want to race off and visit them, even when they don't exist?
There is an outback National Park, a crater filled with flowers, in the book The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart that I really wanted to be able to visit - to walk around the crater, to smell the flowers and see the sunsets.
And of course, a visit to Hogwarts would be fun.
Where would you travel to if the book places were real?
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Post by tucano on Oct 12, 2018 1:58:21 GMT -5
Macondo from One Hundred Years of Solitude, to see if it's really so surreal.
(You can visit the town it's based on, Aracataca in Colombia).
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Post by Liiisa on Oct 12, 2018 5:08:28 GMT -5
I just went through my lists of everything I've read since 2009 and can't find anyplace I'd want to go... I read too much dystopian fiction!
But ok, I occasionally read nicer things. I think I'd like to go to the setting of a Dorothy Sayers novel; other than all the murders, it would be fun to be a party-going aristocrat in London in the 1920s. Or Henry James, as long as I could avoid his characters.
In terms of fantasy, Discworld would be confusing but generally benign, and the people are... nice, on the whole.
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Oct 12, 2018 5:18:46 GMT -5
Middle Earth, especially Gondor and The Shire. And Rivendell, of course.
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Post by kraken on Oct 12, 2018 5:41:55 GMT -5
Earthsea.
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Post by sprite on Oct 12, 2018 7:49:31 GMT -5
Macondo from One Hundred Years of Solitude, to see if it's really so surreal. (You can visit the town it's based on, Aracataca in Colombia). we were promised it was based on Magangue de Mompos, although that was mainly by the people from Magangue.  i'm drawing a blank on this. Discworld would be fun. |
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Post by snowwhite on Oct 12, 2018 10:53:05 GMT -5
I'm struggling a bit, but Wonderland? Phantom Tollbooth country?
Bizarrely, Camp Green Lake from Holes sounds nice as long as you're not there when the story was set!
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Post by tzarine on Oct 12, 2018 12:04:43 GMT -5
definitely wonderland
one of the balls in anna karenina
one of the planets in le petit prince
the last time we attempted the moors so i could shout out, nelly, i am heathcliff! our friends' van broke done & we spent the afternoon in town waiting for the repairs
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Post by Liiisa on Oct 12, 2018 12:51:00 GMT -5
I need to reread LeGuin’s “The Dispossessed,” but I recall thinking that the anarchist-collectivist planet would be cool.
The Garden of Eden sounds nice, if you can just avoid the snake and the naked people
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