Book Worlds We'd Like To Visit

cpg: I can still remember the first time I read about Lothlorien, and how the beauty of that place seemed to infiltrate the real world.

AbigailAdams26: I'd tag along on Legolas and Gimli's tour of Middle Earth, post War of the Ring...

perennialreader: “In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit... it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.”

birder4106: I would be Hagrid (but not because of his size).

BonnieJune54: Hufflepuff sounds nice

AbigailAdams26: Sign me up for Hogwarts!

lampleymadison8: Already read this book and lost all my physical HP copies in a fire. Dying to have my childhood books back.

knerd.knitter: I want to visit the Hundred Acre Woods as shown in the video game Kingdom Hearts!

rb2040: Everything always turns out right. Just thinking of the 100 Acre Wood feels like a warm hug from friends who care and matter.

cindra-cat: Come on! Hundred Acre Wood? And that group of pals to hang with?

timspalding: How could any child not want to live in Narnia?

sturlington: Specifically the wood between the worlds

EMS_24: Two places: on the Dawn Treader with Reepicheep and on the field where the animals come through the door after the last battle.

AbigailAdams26: I'm still looking for that lamppost in the wood...

elorin: I want to hug a talking lion. And always wanted to be a queen.

cindra-cat: It's Narnia. Duh.

mbookshelf: And so began a life long obsession with living in a big old house full of secrets. Turns out those are rather hard to come by...

readersmith: I can visit any book from here!

skid0612: Who wouldn't want a pet dodo?

Gkarlives: Just the beauty of the world and the magic, and Dragons.

cindra-cat: All those islands - and magic, too!

knerd.knitter: kristilabrie, I'm convinced; I'll be a snarky cat!

gmathis: I'll volunteer to snuggle up and read to the Dibbuns.

kristilabrie: Give me a sword and turn me into a medieval hare.

elorin: I just want to be small and fuzzy and attend a feast!

AranelST: I'm in it for the food.

v1v1enne: All the river fun!

timspalding: Take me back, please.

haydninvienna: What Tim said. I'm assuming that we are treating President Obama's world as fictional, and in any event it seems to have gone now.

rb2040: The world as we knew it, not perfect, not without its challenges, but moving forward.

perennialreader: Time and place are characters in this series. Would love to at least visit. On a bus tour, we drove through Thirsk (the real Darrowby) but did not stop. Would love to have had time to walk around.

elorin: Fire lizards. And dragons.

AbigailAdams26: Take me to the Lands Beyond, where I can taste the letters and numbers I buy in the market, and conduct the sunrise and sunset!

hipdeep: I dunno... I think I'm here for Ankh-Morpork.

eclbates: I would NOT want to live in Ankh-Morpork, but other parts of the disc sound lovely.

elorin: I want something from sapient pearwood and a coffee klatch with Susan.

AranelST: Less smelly than Ankh-Morpork.

knerd.knitter: I want to live here and visit the circus forever!

tardis: I want to work at St. Mary's!

rb2040: It's a historian thing!

knerd.knitter: I know this is a real place, and I have actually visited Prince Edward Island. I love it and would love to go back!

bjappleg8: I long to roam Prince Edward Island with Anne, especially in Spring

elorin: The Emerald City, and Ozma

AranelST: What kind of birds do they have in Oz? Someone should find out.

amanda4242: Ankh-Morpork, as long as I don't have to live there.

v1v1enne: The natural beauty of Italy and the companions

paradoxosalpha: Round-trip ticket to an orbital or a GSV, please

vwinsloe: I'd love to visit anywhere in The Culture really. And maybe stay there.

elahrairah: The Culture is the best of all possible worlds, and a dream of the future that surely capitalism will find a way to crush.

AbigailAdams26: Who wouldn't want to rock with the dragons of the Enchanted Forest?

AbigailAdams26: I would love to visit the United Federation of Planets, and would particularly like to see Vulcan.

hipdeep: Hear me out... who wouldn't want to live in Calvin's world for a while?

kristilabrie: What? I like Scottish accents and time travel.

haydninvienna: Or any other of PGW's Edenic worlds

v1v1enne: To be a roaring '20s posh socialite with no real world concerns? Sign me up today!

Lady_Melee: We're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.

clamairy: If you have read this book then I do not need to explain. If you haven't read it please put it on your TBR pile.

hipdeep: I'd like to hear Jake Stonebender play, and make one toast.

elorin: I'm more of a Lady Slings the Booze type but a bar that feels like home sounds divine.

Gkarlives: Dragons you can talk to.

perennialreader: Heartwarming tale of the deep south at Christmas and the miracle that took place.

haydninvienna: fascinating to be in one city and not be able to see the other.

tardis: I want to live on Preservation, not the Corporate Rim!

mbookshelf: Sassy (without means to be) androids.

hipdeep: Maybe not the war-torn Prydain of the books... but perhaps either before or after.

AbigailAdams26: I would visit Damar at any period in its history, but would especially love to visit Luthe's retreat in the mountains.

birder4106: Who wouldn't want to be as resilient as Kya?

perennialreader: Beautifully written in such a way, I would like to live there.

timspalding: I hope Heaven is like this. As for Hell, I would prefer it's empty or at least does not count me among its residents.

cpg: What Tim said.

Lyssa_H: Cute, soothing, comfort read.

birder4106: I would like to live in a world where we could talk to the animals. Under certain circumstances, their perspective could help us to make the world (even) better. Ich würde gerne in einer Welt leben, in welcherman mit den Tieren sprechen könnte. Unter Umständen könnte ihre sicht uns helfen die Welt (noch) besser zu gestalten.

konallis: An imagined future in which people have created ecological and social harmony, although only at the price of inheriting disaster.

sturlington: A beautiful imagined alternate future

elorin: Gay Deceiver could take me to any of those worlds. I'll scootch in tight between Deety and Hilda.

elahrairah: A practical, beautiful place, as compared to the wild excesses of capitalism.

AbigailAdams26: If there was one fictional home I could visit, it would be the magical, haunted Green Know / Green Noah!

birder4106: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Moers#Zamonia_series

birder4106: Applies to the entire [[[The Three-Body Problem]]] series.

msjudy: I want to eat at the bistro, stay at the B&B, and visit the bookstore.

kristilabrie: Yes, this is probably cheating. No, I don't care.

AranelST: There are books, it totally counts. (Any of the modern Doctors would be cool, though. And most of the classics.)

elahrairah: How do we rebuild our dreamworld over their hellscape? Trauma therapy and open streams!

msjudy: Always enjoyed the Darkover culture of telepathic introverts

amanda4242: Who wouldn't want to visit the great castle of Gormenghast?

cindra-cat: If you are friendly, you can make friends anywhere.

godislobster: While the world is only introduced in the first book, it sates my appetite for a richer world beyond the first setting.

lizzy50usa: College with fairies.

elorin: I always wanted to know what my magic talent would be.

perennialreader: Like Mayberry, but French.

OktoFalke: French countryside life, vibrant and peaceful all at the same time.

perennialreader: Even in hard times there is beauty in nature.

pitjrw: Multiple alternative realities

anglemark: The author might be a creep, but that world was cool.

perennialreader: In the sleepy English countryside of decades past, there is a town that has stood on a jut of granite for six hundred years.

victoria_bliss: Living in the Metropolitan Museum of Art? I'd still like to spend a night there.

cindra-cat: Small town full of odd folks. And really smart cats.

victoria_bliss: When I was a little girl, I longed to play with Betsy, Tacy, and their friends. They played dress-up in fancy clothes I could only imagine, made colored sand in bottles, and walked all over town by themselves.

victoria_bliss: I'd just like to sit with Eleanor of Aquitaine and Abbot Suger and Queen Matilda in heaven and hear their stories.

hfglen: An entry-point to Brother Cadfael's world

AranelST: I really just want to argue theology.

elahrairah: It made me weep tears of loss just thinking about the world we could have.

paradoxosalpha: An improbably optimistic 25th century

knerd.knitter: There are really two separate worlds in this book; both of them are interesting.

godislobster: two unique universes, split brained accountants? Sign me up

Cecrow: "Love as thou wilt."

v1v1enne: No other readers chose to visit Wonka's chocolate factory? I'd love to have a golden ticket!

godislobster: To inhabit Murakami's worlds is a privilege in reading, but he often makes me wish for a more magical reality. Maybe I need to look up and see what is in the sky, after all isn't that what one of the character finally does?