Booking Through Thursday — Other Worlds
Posted on August 7, 2008 in Books
Are there any particular worlds in books where you’d like to live?
Or where you certainly would NOT want to live?
What about authors? If you were a character, who would you trust to write your life?
(This came to me when reviewing a Jonathan Carroll book – I’m not sure I’d like to live in the worlds of his books.) – BTT
Worlds I would like to live include Philip Pullman’s parallel world where daemons exist, Jasper Fforde’s Thursday Next series (oh to be a jurisfiction agent), Madeleine L’Engle’s Time Quartet, and of course, JKR’s Harry Potter, and probably quite a few more. When I was a child, I was constantly looking for closets that go into Narnia; I wanted to be Lucy. I also really wanted to be Wendy Peter Pan.
I definitely would not want to live in any dystopia books such as 1984, Brave New World, Blindness, or Fahrenheit 451. There are also a few classic authors whose works I would not want to live in such as Thomas Hardy, Dosteoyevsky, Edith Wharton, E. M. Forster, sometimes Dickens, and sometimes Shakespeare (tragedies only)
Authors I would trust for my life: Jane Austen, Philip Pullman, Shakespeare (comedies only), and Neil Gaiman (because it would be really cool).
Me, too. When I was little, I used to love to play in my Granny’s big wardrobe which I was absolutely sure must lead to Narnia somehow. But I never found that secret door!
I love to see the tulips in your header. Whew! I finally remembered to say it! Every Thursday, I think that thought as soon as your blog opens, and then I forget to tell you because I get so carried away with responding to your answer.
Now, on to the business at hand:
Ah, to be Wendy-like in Much Ado About Nothing.
Heh, I think Potterland is going to be quite popular with this one! And I’m sitting here grumbling about missing out Swindon and all it’s wonderful attractions available to a rookie Jursifiction agent, from my list!