In the book the Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde, Thursday Next can get into any book she wants. My question is in which book would you lide to live if you could choose?

I personally would love to live in Thursday Next book.

Maybe Hesse's Siddhartha. Or Walden.


bootylicious thrall of the amii

Welcome to the board, by the way...


bootylicious thrall of the amii

Thank you!

maybe Lord Of The Rings. or Finnegans Wake. or The Critique of Pure Reason by Kant. oh, wait, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy! yeah, that one.

on the other hand, i wish i could escape from Nausea by Sartre, in which i currently seem to reside.

i'm also living inside the novel that i'm working on, but i'm trying to get out of it by writing it.

_______________________________________

Inactivist of the Radical Status Quo

When I was 14 and 15 I wanted to live in Clive Barker's Imagica.

I'd like to live in Pamela Dean's fictional worlds. Not the Secret Country, but some of the more modern ones: Tam Lin, or Juniper, Gentian and Rose. Somewhere like that.

~~~~~~~~~~~
WWDD
~~~~~~~~~~~

Any of the Robert Heinlien books about the time travelers... 'cause they include a world full of beautiful, sexually avalible people and unlimited possiblities for chronal adventure without much risk of death.

Excelsior!

~~~~~~~~~

Join the Church of the Risen Morrison!

Roy Orbison singing for the lonely
Hey thats me and I want you only
Don't turn me home again
I just can't face myself alone again
Bruce Springsteen, "Thunder Road"

"To fall in love is to create a religion with a fallible God"-- Jorge Luis Borges

http://lon.blogspot.com-- Its a slightly less eloquent me

Call me a hopeless geek - it's gotta be Anne McCaffrey's Pern (but ONLY if my husband and I both get to be dragonriders ;-).

~Julianna~

i am a geek...

the world of Harry Potter!!!! it seems like so much fun...

___________________________
but what are the jocelae?

"late at night when the wires in the walls
sing in tune with the din of the falls
i'm conducting it all while i sleep
to light this whole town" Bare Naked Ladies, 'Light Up My Room'

I'll second Cobalt with H2G2.

Or possibly Amber, if I get to be of the blood.

Or (don't laugh) Weiss & Hickman's Darksword books.

But the guide world is the best by far.

-Gal

"...some of these people are under the delusion that there are things in life more important then gaming
".-The Lord of Nothings.

I own snoopy stickers, and I'm proud of it!!

hmmm... yea, Amber if i can shadowwalk and all that. the Marvel Universe is up there, too... its like ours, but with the possibility of getting superpowers.

Excelsior!

~~~~~~~~~

Join the Church of the Risen Morrison!

Roy Orbison singing for the lonely
Hey thats me and I want you only
Don't turn me home again
I just can't face myself alone again
Bruce Springsteen, "Thunder Road"

"To fall in love is to create a religion with a fallible God"-- Jorge Luis Borges

http://lon.blogspot.com-- Its a slightly less eloquent me

I just want to carry a legendary sword. If it were a question of being a character, I'd pick Oscar from Heinlein's Glory Road, 'cause he gets to slay dragons and make it with Helen of Troy. Or, hey, how about Heinlein's "Number of the Beast," that says that with the proper technology you can travel between dimensions, each of which is a different story world? Wouldn't that eliminate the question?

Nah. Truth is, I'd like to live in the world of Stranger in a Strange Land, except about a hundred years after the end of the book, and I'd like to be part of the "Martian" household. Sex AND telekinesis.

Relax, you fiends! I'm only joking.

quote:

---

Originally posted by phool:
I just want to carry a legendary sword. If it were a question of being a character, I'd pick Oscar from Heinlein's Glory Road, 'cause he gets to slay dragons and make it with Helen of Troy. Or, hey, how about Heinlein's "Number of the Beast," that says that with the proper technology you can travel between dimensions, each of which is a different story world? Wouldn't that eliminate the question?

Nah. Truth is, I'd like to live in the world of Stranger in a Strange Land, except about a hundred years after the end of the book, and I'd like to be part of the "Martian" household. Sex AND telekinesis.

Relax, you fiends! I'm only joking.

---

The world i mentioned includes all those worlds. I'm not sure how, but it does. Its Heinlien's ultimate sex/story paradise. It was glimpsed in "the Cat Who Walks Through Walls" and i'm not sure what other book.

Excelsior!

~~~~~~~~~

Join the Church of the Risen Morrison!

Roy Orbison singing for the lonely
Hey thats me and I want you only
Don't turn me home again
I just can't face myself alone again
Bruce Springsteen, "Thunder Road"

"To fall in love is to create a religion with a fallible God"-- Jorge Luis Borges

http://lon.blogspot.com-- Its a slightly less eloquent me

Number of the Beast. Actually explains how it works, to the degree that it can be explained.

Relax, you fiends! I'm only joking.

Eh, forget all this. I know where i'd like to live. Rather then explaining it, i'll demonstrate what i'd do if i lived there.

*steps up to the chalk line and raises his imglass* To Warren Zevon. The others have said it better, so i'll just say i know enough to know i'll miss him, and i'm glad he's happy with where he's going. *drains his glass and tosses it into the fire as Fast Eddie plays something from Warren's new album*

Yep, i'd be in Callahan's right now.

Excelsior!

~~~~~~~~~

Join the Church of the Risen Morrison!

Roy Orbison singing for the lonely
Hey thats me and I want you only
Don't turn me home again
I just can't face myself alone again
Bruce Springsteen, "Thunder Road"

"To fall in love is to create a religion with a fallible God"-- Jorge Luis Borges

http://lon.blogspot.com-- Its a slightly less eloquent me

I know I am a geek and this series (The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass) were written for YAfic, I'd love to be in them.

Though, I'd much rather be able to use the subtle knife without all those nasty reprocussions.

The Discworld series! It's like madness, only on universal scale. I love it! I belong there!
Or Neverwhere. Sometimes I think it would actually be better to slide between the cracks of acceptance and enter that wonderfull world that nobody else sees. Rather then to live in this putrid world, where nothing we do really matters.

___________________________
To think for yourself you must question authority and learn how to put yourself in a state of vulnerable, open-mindedness; chaotic, confused, vulnerability to inform yourself.
(Timothy Leary)

quote:

---

Originally posted by Storyteller:
The Discworld series! It's like madness, only on universal scale. I love it! I belong there!
Or Neverwhere. Sometimes I think it would actually be better to slide between the cracks of acceptance and enter that wonderfull world that nobody else sees. Rather then to live in this putrid world, where nothing we do really matters.

___________________________
To think for yourself you must question authority and learn how to put yourself in a state of vulnerable, open-mindedness; chaotic, confused, vulnerability to inform yourself.
(Timothy Leary)

---

That's kinda why i play RPGs and videogames... shared delusions. The idea of meaning, of accomplishment. A world where you're a hero. Shared with others who speak your language, understand your pretensions.

Excelsior!

~~~~~~~~~

You can either be part of the problem or part of the solution, but in the end, being part of the problem is much more fun.

"I'm living in my car now. My car loves me. I mean, it wouldn't have grown a real vagina for me otherwise, would it?" -- Warren Ellis

"To fall in love is to create a religion with a fallible God"-- Jorge Luis Borges

http://lon.blogspot.com Its a slightly less eloquent me

quote:

---

That's kinda why i play RPGs and videogames... shared delusions. The idea of meaning, of accomplishment. A world where you're a hero. Shared with others who speak your language, understand your pretensions.

---

I think that's why fantasy exist. To live in that delusion that can become so much more real then this world.
Also, abstraction of reality can lead to a better and more honest version of that reality.
Don't you just love being post-modern?

___________________________
To think for yourself you must question authority and learn how to put yourself in a state of vulnerable, open-mindedness; chaotic, confused, vulnerability to inform yourself.
(Timothy Leary)