Fictional people and places.

[eleanoreader]

1. Name the book that has most made you want to visit a particular location.

2. Which author's fictional world would you most like to live in?

3. If you were off on an adventure, which five literary characters would you want to take with you?

4. Name three books that you would take with you if you were suddenly uprooted from all your stuff.

5. You find yourself alone in a strange, potentially hostile place. Pick a literary character who would fill the '?' in 'WW?D'.

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[eleanoreader]

1. Name the book that has most made you want to visit a particular location.
Most recently, The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency series by Alexander McCall Smith has made me want to visit Africa. Before that I was very into Deep South US historical and contemporary fiction and non-fiction. John Berendt's Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil was one of the most compelling.

2. Which author's fictional world would you most like to live in?
To live in, I'd say Ursula Vernon's universe created for 'Digger' (a webcomic, so I'm cheating). Something about the mixture of arcane gods and pragmatic creatures is wholly appealing to me. To travel, I think the Gunslinger's world in Stephen King's Dark Tower series.

3. If you were off on an adventure, which five literary characters would you want to take with you?
David Gemmell's Druss, Sully from Richard Russo's Nobody's Fool (stubborn, but gives great banter), Severus Snape (for the snark), Moist Von Lipwig from PTerry's Discworld (sneaky and a born survivor; the Patrician would never be persuaded to go and Death would just make everyone uncomfortable); and Jeeves.

Why all male? Well, I'd be packing a bottle of oil so that when they all attempted to kill each other it'd at least be sexy.

4. Name three books that you would take with you if you were suddenly uprooted from all your stuff.
The Stand by Stephen King, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey and Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.

5. You find yourself alone in a strange, potentially hostile place. Pick a literary character who would fill the '?' in 'WW?D'.
WWHCD?! Henri Charriere... since he was a real person, this is cheating again, a tad, but his autobiographical account of his escape, recapture, escape, etc in Papillon just filled me with stone admiration for his ability to make friends, find co-conspirators, survive just about anything and get up and keep trying every time he got knocked on his ass.

[brumeux77]

1. The Seventh Sinner by Elizabeth Peters, and When in Rome by Ngaio Marsh. Even though they’re both fiction (mysteries, to be exact), they talk about the same site, so I think it must be real. It’s a church in Rome with several levels, and the farther down you go the farther into the past you travel, until you reach the bottom layer which was a Mithraic temple.
2. Of course the answer—at least my answer—depends upon knowing the principal characters. In fantasy, it would naturally be the world of Harry Potter. In science fiction, Lois McMaster Bujold’s Barrayar. In mystery, probably Lord Peter Wimsey’s world, created by Dorothy L. Sayers.
3. Harry Potter, Miles Vorkosigan, Lord Peter (from my three answers to #2 respectively), Gandalf, and Superman. (Do comic books count as literary? If not, hmm, King Arthur.)
4. Nope. I decline this one. You tell me: which of your children is your favorite?
5. I think I’ll go with Miles Vorkosigan.