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What book would you like to live in?
Elentari Posted Aug 4, 2005
A Discworld book would be cool, or a Harry Potter book, preferably before the war started. I just want to be able to do the magic! 
What book would you like to live in?
azahar Posted Aug 4, 2005
Meanwhile, just want to thank Tanzen for the ear-worm! As ear-worms go, Melanie isn't too hard to live with . . . 
az
What book would you like to live in?
Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted Aug 4, 2005
Repetetive? Well, I don't know how boring your life is. Though you do live in NZ so I can draw some conclusions...
Besides, repeptetive or not, it's the only book in which I'd meet SLG, and thats all I care about.
What book would you like to live in?
Mu Beta Posted Aug 4, 2005
Presumably you'd meet her in her autobiography too. 
Or has she already removed you from her memory as a protective measure.
B
What book would you like to live in?
Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted Aug 4, 2005
Master B, you have a good point. 
But my point was that I actually can't think of a 'fantasy' that would be as good as the reality.
What book would you like to live in?
azahar Posted Aug 4, 2005
That's a very interesting point, Blues, and one I agree with.
Which is why I wouldn't mind visiting some books but I also quite prefer my own 'autobiography'.
az
What book would you like to live in?
Mu Beta Posted Aug 4, 2005
Yeah. Wait until you've been cohabiting for 2 years and then say that.
B
What book would you like to live in?
It's ok, I like living in a backwater 
SLG...your other half? That's sweet.
I was thinking deja-vuish. You'd have the life, write the autobiography, realise you were living in the book writing the autobiography....
What book would you like to live in?
azahar Posted Aug 4, 2005
I hope Odo give you a well-deserved smack about the head for that one, Master B!
az
What book would you like to live in?
Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted Aug 4, 2005
Ah, the the old infinite regressing series trick. Why, then
I think that might be quite interesting...
Yes, SLG is my wife. (And i am ignoring Ben's curmudgeonly comment.)
What book would you like to live in?
Mu Beta Posted Aug 4, 2005
By no means did I intend to comment on my current living arrangements. Just that 2 years tends to take the gloss off a bit.
B
What book would you like to live in?
Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted Aug 4, 2005
Bloomin' phones.
I was about to type >the old infinite rgressing series trick< why, then I could pretend I was in a Twilight Zone Episode, which while it isn't a book, isn't a bad thing to be in...
What book would you like to live in?
You could always go for the biography, written by the author of your choice.
What book would you like to live in?
Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted Aug 4, 2005
Well, that's true.
I'll have Ray Bradbury then please.
What book would you like to live in?
xWhiteMousex Posted Aug 4, 2005
How can there be any doubt...
The book I'd like to live in, would be Lord of the Rings. But, that would be assuming that I got tossed in there and not born and raised in it. I doubt things would be as facinating if you were born and raised with them around you at all times anyways.
And of course, I'd be like Sam probably... all swooned by the elfs ^.^
Maybe even find myself a cute little elf girl!
Biggest attraction with Lord of the Rings is it's myth, magic and it's clear borders between evil and good. I'd like to live in such a place where the people around you are all good, and where you have the evil, that is vile and inhumane. In our real world, there is no good vs evil... it's all a big grey zone where you never know, and never truly can feel secure with strangers.
Ah well... Give me a cottage in an elven forest, and a cute elf girl to boost, and I would never complain.
What book would you like to live in?
swl Posted Aug 4, 2005
I remember this question from High School English and I think my answer would still be the same. I would have loved to live in Tom Sawyers time and town. A child growing up in the Mississipi Delta, riverboats, excaped convicts, adventures on a raft.
I could be tempted by Peter F Hamilton's "Nights Dawn" trilogy - affinity genes, accessing internet-like facilities just by thinking about it. Neural Nanonics helping beat pain and having great sex, tempting !!
What book would you like to live in?
another primate (called rik) Posted Aug 4, 2005
"His dark materials" trilogy by Philip Pullman... it would just be rather cool to have part of your soul as some wandering beastie!
Or, because i'm in a mushy mood... swallows and amazons
rik
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