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Where do books take you?

sweetsymphony

sweetsymphony

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I've always been amazed at all the places books can take you. I'm curious - Is the setting of a book a factor for you in choosing whether or not to read it? It's not really to me, but it is one of the many aspects of a book that I take into consideration before buying or reading it.

So far in 2005, books have taken me to the following places:
Aspen, Colorado (Catering to Nobody)
Hampden, Vermont (The Secret History)
Detroit, Michigan (Second Hand)
Nollop Island, South Carolina (Ella Minnow Pea)
Beverly Hills, California (Butterfly)
Norristown, Pennsylvania (The Lovely Bones)
Pleasant Valley, Pennsylvania (Key of Knowledge)

Where have your books taken you this year?
 
i will read something set in the maritimes or in japan, because i feel connected to those places. but i am a big fan of the place in time a book will take me. as a kid i read the laura ingalls wilder series over and over because i was so fascinated with that time period, especially for girls. so now i love historical fiction that has women main characters. the josephine bonaparte trilogy was great for that and it took me to france.
 
sorry, but how did you like the book CATERING TO NOBODY??

oh and my books take me everywhere!! texas, egypt, germany, france, spain, italy, russia, all over US... :D
 
honeydevil said:
sorry, but how did you like the book CATERING TO NOBODY??
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I liked this book alright, but it's not one of my favorites. I gave it a rating of 8 out of 10. Something about it kind of got on my nerves, but I couldn't pinpoint what it was exactly.
 
I love books that take me places I know nothing about to broaden my horizons, or fictional places because it's great to visit someone else imagination. For example, I recently finished 'Memoirs of a Geisha' and I'm currently half way through the second book of Clive Barker's 'Abarat'....
 
I tend to read books that are set in New England. I find that setting to be my favorite escape. So, if anyone has any recommendations...please let me know!
 
sweetsymphony said:
I liked this book alright, but it's not one of my favorites. I gave it a rating of 8 out of 10. Something about it kind of got on my nerves, but I couldn't pinpoint what it was exactly.
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i thought it was good, but a little long, too much clues with too less sense!! but i'm reading now her 4th or 5th book and she becomes better and better!! :)
 
sweetsymphony said:
I've always been amazed at all the places books can take you. I'm curious - Is the setting of a book a factor for you in choosing whether or not to read it? It's not really to me, but it is one of the many aspects of a book that I take into consideration before buying or reading it.


Where have your books taken you this year?
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I had a wonderful WONDERFUL week when I read "The Kite Runner" and went to Afghanistan, then immediately turned around and picked up "Heaven Lake" and journeyed all across China. The greatest thing was that both books were equally superb!
 
EVERYWHERE!!!!!
Evry now and then I get on a genre kick. Last year it was survival stories. I went to the Arctic, to the top of Everest, and across the Sahara. The setting is just one of the factors that I may use to select a book, but I don't always use it when choosing. Sometimes it is incidental, sometimes it is the primary reason. It just depends on my mood, or what I am interested in at the time.
 
I agree cajunmama. I go everywhere and only when on a kick (Geisha kick, holocaust kick, Vietnam kick, etc) do I go anywhere in particular. I've been around the world many times over.
 
I really like books that take me to Egypt. Right now I'm reading Princes of Ireland by Rutherfurd, and really, the setting is the point of the book. I wouldn't want every book to be that way, though.
 
Ashlea said:
Right now I'm reading Princes of Ireland by Rutherfurd, and really, the setting is the point of the book. I wouldn't want every book to be that way, though.
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I've been wanting to read that one. Let us know when you've finished if you'd recommend it. I read London by Rutherfurd and thoroughly enjoyed it.
 
Derry, Maine. :p (Stephen King reference :p )

The setting of a book doesn't influence me at all as to whether I'll read it or not. I just look for an all round interesting read. :)
 
Everywhere!

I love to read books about Europe, especially. Also historical books that take me to other times and fantasy books that take me to other worlds.
 
To Mars with Ray Bradbury, into the future with Issac Asimov, to Hell, Maine, and other parts unknown with Stephen King and Clive Barker, into a dark past with Poe, to other planets and galaxies with Douglas Adams, back in time with Hunter S. Thompson and many others, to Middle Earth with J.R.R. Tolkein, and to many far away countries with Danielle Steel, Victoria Holt, etc.

Reading is the best was to travel - no packing, lost tickets or luggage! :D
 
Excellent thread idea!

So far, I've been to...

  • Middle-Earth and Arda with J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion)
  • 17th century Venice with Eric Flint and Andrew Dennis (1634: The Galileo Affair)
  • 21st century American city of Grantville, West Virginia in 17th century Germany with Eric Flint and many other authors (Ring of Fire and The Grantville Gazette
  • Lower Middle-earth with the Harvard Lampoon Staff (Bored of the Rings)
  • Upper Middle-earth with A.R.R.R. Roberts (The Soddit)
  • The Greek World after the Death of Alexander with Harry Turtledove (Owls to Athens)
  • The Spiral Arm of the Milky Way Galaxy with Kevin J. Anderson (Hidden Empire and A Forest of Stars)
 
France

EVERYWHERE!

Specifically:
I love going to France (1950s-1970s) with Henry Miller & Anais Nin. It seems so exciting. ;)
 
So far books have taken me to a place where anyhing is possible,and you can have anything you wish for.
 
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