If you could enter a work of fiction, which book would it be?

[Khephra]

(The idea behind this is the book "The Eyre Affair" in which people are actually able to walk into the books or poems as they were imagined by the people who wrote them. Highly Thumbs up series IMO)

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0142001805/104-7599163-6255900?v=glance

Penzler Pick, January 2002: When I first heard the premise of this unique mystery, I doubted that a first-time author could pull off a complicated caper involving so many assumptions, not the least of which is a complete suspension of disbelief. Jasper Fforde is not only up to the task, he exceeds all expectations.
Imagine this. Great Britain in 1985 is close to being a police state. The Crimean War has dragged on for more than 130 years and Wales is self-governing. The only recognizable thing about this England is her citizens' enduring love of literature. And the Third Most Wanted criminal, Acheron Hades, is stealing characters from England's cherished literary heritage and holding them for ransom.

Bibliophiles will be enchanted, but not surprised, to learn that stealing a character from a book only changes that one book, but Hades has escalated his thievery. He has begun attacking the original manuscripts, thus changing all copies in print and enraging the reading public. That's why Special Operations Network has a Literary Division, and it is why one of its operatives, Thursday Next, is on the case.

Thursday is utterly delightful. She is vulnerable, smart, and, above all, literate. She has been trying to trace Hades ever since he stole Mr. Quaverley from the original manuscript of Martin Chuzzlewit and killed him. You will only remember Mr. Quaverley if you read Martin Chuzzlewit prior to 1985. But now Hades has set his sights on one of the plums of literature, Jane Eyre, and he must be stopped.

How Thursday achieves this and manages to preserve one of the great books of the Western canon makes for delightfully hilarious reading. You do not have to be an English major to be pulled into this story. You'll be rooting for Thursday, Jane, Mr. Rochester--and a familiar ending. --Otto Penzler --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

1. My own books

Oh wait... I already have... (at least in my imagination)

[BigMcLargehuge]

2. same here

You have to live in your fiction or it doesn't amount to a damn thing.

[Khephra]

4. Cheater!

A lot of us have fictional works...try someone other than your own works. ;-)

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

10. But I'm better than they are!!

Okay, maybe I'm not... but.... but....!!

[BigMcLargehuge]

14. then I want to be in your books

whatever they are, and if you want, you can be in mine.

:P

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

16. lol, sounds good

But I don't know what kind of character I can name "BigMcLargehuge"

[dorktv]

3. I would enter the Potter books and make Snape wash his damn hair.

[tigereye]

21. that's funny

he is a bit greasy, eh? In the upcoming Prisoner of Azkaban movie, it acutally looks like his hair is clean! I think he is kind of cute anyway.

I was going to say the Potter books. Not sure I would want to be in any William Gibson novels.. although we are kind of getting there, anyway in reality. Some of Sherri Tepper's worlds are fascinating, wouldn't mind being in a few of those. Hmmm. Will have to think about this some more. Great question!

[wysimdnwyg]

5. The Bible

I'd tell God not to make that damned tree.


Wait, let me get my fire suit on....

OK, flame away! :evilgrin:

[FarmerOak]

6. Ummm...

... I think my name kind of demands that I enter "Far From the Madding Crowd."

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

12. Welcome to DU!!

Glad to have you onboard!!! :yourock: :grouphug: :party:

[FarmerOak]

26. Thank you, that was very kind.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

7. Contact by Carl Sagan

I can't imagine a better fictitious world to be in.

[WildClarySage]

8. My first thought when I saw the title of the thread

was the Tuesday Next books so that I could jump to all the other great books I'd want to try out. :)

[BigMcLargehuge]

9. in SOMEONE else's book... I'd enter

War of the Worlds (as Narrator)
Starship Troopers (as Juan Rico)
The Destroyer Series (As Remo Williams)
The Count of Monte Cristo (as Edmund)
Friday (as Friday)
Stranger in a Strange Land (as Jubal Hershaw)

[tigereye]

22. Heinlein

interesting. Used to read those excessively in high school. Should probably re-read them. Hi BLMH! I like that you have picked a perspective as well. I would like to inhabit some of my favorite mystery characters, like Chee in the Tony Hillerman books. He has a neat world view.

[terrya]

11. Armistead Maupin's "Tales of the City" books. Without a doubt.

I'd love to meet Mrs. Madrigal...and Michael...and Mary Ann...and Brian. They were family...a very special one, IMO.

Terry

[DerekG]

13. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn...

Floating along the Mississippi with Huck and Jim, getting into myriad adventures, meeting such characters as the King and the Duke...paradise.

Besides, when it came time for Tom Sawyer to make his dreaded appearance in the novel (2/3 of the way through), I'd smack him upside the head and save Twain's novel from self-implosion.

God I hate Sawyer.

[Ready4Change]

15. Larry Nivens Known Space series

Wouldn't change a thing. But would work to gain the ability to fly ships.

[skip fox]

17. Well, whether DU posters are truly literate or not, at least

no one has mentioned a porn novel.


(yet)




:toast:

[JayS]

18. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. n/t

n/t

[Rabrrrrrr]

19. Tough choice between being a wizard in Potter or being in Star Trek

Both have their plusses!

And in Star Trek, I'd only want to be some kind of person who actually got to travel the stars, even if it isn't very often, but I'd prefer being a bridge member of a starship.

[Whitacre D_WI]

20. "Delta of Venus"

Oh, come on. You all KNEW I was gonna pick Nin!

[tigereye]

23. yep we did

not a bad thing to pick. What about Henry Miller though? Him, too?

[TXlib]

24. Anything by Anne Rice...

[Angelus]

27. Same here, man.

[SPQR]

25. Winter's Tale

by Mark Helprin. A beautiful, magical book.

[AlienGirl]

28. The Dirk Gentley series

by Douglas Adams.

Tuckr

[Bandit]

29. Lord of the Rings trilogy

Good wins out over evil in the story not like real life.