so what book would you want to live in...

I'd like to be in Amber in one of Roger Zelazny's books... preferably as one of the princes who have the ability to walk the shadows.

If not that, I'd love to visit Larry Niven's Ringworld, or Arthur C Clarke's Rama.

Willie

Harry Potter.

I can has magic please?

The Phantom Tollbooth.

Please? Please please please?

I'm going to go ahead and guess that we're not allowed to choose worlds from our own writing...

I guess from looking at my bookshelf that my next pick would be the Inkworld by Cornelia Funke. That way, if there was something from another book I wanted, I could (or if we don't get the MC's powers, ask them to) read it out for myself.

Hogwarts would be awesome. That's why it makes for such fun reading!

Course, Lyra's universe from His Dark Materials sounds pretty glamorous...and it'd be cool to have a daemon...yep, that's the one.

Definitely Lord of the Rings.

I'd like to live in the days of Oliver Twist and talk to him in the street, when he leaves the Orphanage and arrives in London. I would like to rescue him from Fagin and the Artful Dodger.

Barbara

This is a question I've thought about too often. I'd love to live in the Hidden Land (Secret Country Trilogy) so I could met Fence and be magic.

williemeikle said:

I'd like to be in Amber in one of Roger Zelazny's books... preferably as one of the princes who have the ability to walk the shadows.

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Yup. That's exactly what I was gonna say, because I could find any reality I like.

And if we're dreaming, I'd also like to be a Logros initiate so I can do a bit of sorcery while I'm wandering between shadows.

Hogwarts is pretty tempting. Or maybe one of those Bronte settings where I wander the moors in my flowy dress...

When I was a kid, I always wanted to be in a Trixie Belden book - they got to do some pretty cool mystery-solving.

Nowadays??? Hmm... I'd probably have to say Harry Potter as well.

Narnia
Middle Earth
Anne McCafrey's Pern.
Do I have to choose just one?

NARNIA!!! ::charges on silver and red armor::

Logans Run

Virgin Planet.

Need you ask why?

Any book by Nichols Sparks.

Franny & Zooey by J.D. Salinger... hands down.

R.A Salvatore's world or Tolkien's when Faenor was alive. Cheers to elves!
Harry Potter goes too.

One that has a lot of betting that I already know the results to, dunno exactly which.

Or maybe "The Day my Bum Went Psycho".

Wow, so many choices.

I'll start out in Galt's Gulch, Colorado, the utopia of the ornery, from Atlas Shrugged. Francisco d'Anconia has this great cabin there, and he's so lonely.

The Regency England of Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, where magic and the Raven King have returned to the land. My house would have to have one of those paintings that open into Faery.

LotR: Bag End would be a lovely place to live, but the rather narrow-minded hobbits might get tiresome. Tom Bombadil's house is tempting, and a pied a terre in restored Osgiliath for some urban action.

Battlestar Galactica, and I get a cabin just like Adm. Adama's. And a house on pre-war Caprica just like the one Gaius Baltar used to have, minus the fur coverlet on the bed, though.

Austen: It would be nice to be the mistress of Pemberley, or Donwell Abbey, or Delaford, or whatever ship Captain Wentworth might be commanding at the moment.

Lovecraft: The Strange High House in the Mist, or that wonderful city of the Elder Things in Antarctica in its heyday.

Righting said:

for me - in Terry Pratchett's Guards! Guards! --- to see a dragon and meet the hysterical Night Watch!

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I'd love to meet Nanny Ogg and Granny Weatherwax. And the Sweeper. And Vimes. And Ridcully. And...well, you get the idea.
But the world (well, universe in this case) I really want to live in is the one Iain Banks's Culture novels are set in. Though I think I'd prefer the inquisitive Zetetic Elench to the Culture itself.

sadron said:

R.A Salvatore's world or Tolkien's when Faenor was alive. Cheers to elves!
Harry Potter goes too.

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R.A Salvatore's world isn't actually R.A Salvatore's world. It's the much syndicated D&D world of Faerun. Used in loads of novels, computer games and D&D modules.

Austen's world might be fun, but only if I could be Elizabeth Bennett. Hmm... on second thought, no electricity or modern plumbing might get to me. In that case I might have to go with the popular Harry Potter/Hogwarts. I want my own magic wand, darn it.

With the emphasis on the word live, the book I'd want to live in is The Stand. How sick is that? I love post-Apocalyptic scenarios.

The Shire (from LOTR)
Hogwarts (from HP)
Lyra's universe (from His Dark Materials)
Dinotopia (check the paintings by James Gurney)