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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Date: 2010-10-29 02:38 am (UTC)From: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.