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[idiosyncreant]

Day 27

If a book, with it's tone, dialogue, characters, setting, were to be a life you would chose, which would it be? Include the bad spots and why you'd chose those. This could be revealing...

 

Well, I can tell you a few comparisons: I'd rather be in Harry Potter than Lord of the Rings. The Shire's better than Muggle London, but Middle Earth seems so sparse on humans, and a twilight world, whereas the wizard world is claustrophobic yet surrounded by an outer universe of people.

And despite their difficulty, I like people.

I'd take Daddy-Long-Legs over I Capture the Castle.

Damar over Dune.



If we combine favorite period and favorite sense of magic and humanity--I think I'd go with Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell. The bones-of-earth feel to the magic, the contradictions of the polite common-places of the British society in a time of high war, and the abandon of the results of magic and the controlled scholarship of those practicing it fascinates me.

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[beth-shulman.livejournal.com]

I've been thinking about this all day, and honestly? I'm still now sure. My favorite books have conflict and drama, and I'm not sure I'd want to be in any of those worlds. And if books were boring and had no plot, I didn't like them much, so why would I say I wanted to be in them?

Basically: I love the world of Harry Potter, but I don't think I'd want to live there, what with Death Eaters and pure bloods. And I love almost anything by Hilari Bell, but her worlds usually face political instability (which actually we've got now, and it isn't fun). And I love KoA - that's it. I'd want to live in Eddis. And have a stable country, and a great queen. Except that they do go to war, and now they need to relocate.

Hmmmm.