i started reading this, and the first thing to pop into my mind was valdemar :p also have to agree with argaea. hmm...then the Wheel of Time universe, robert jordan, but during the age of legends. and finally, the two worlds that Tamora Pierce wrote for, Emalon, which is the circle of magic series, and tortall, the lioness series and those related works.
I've tried a couple of times to read Jordan, but can't get into his stuff. It all seems so brutal and violent and I can't find any interest point to hold my attention.
Tamora Pierce poses a different problem for me. Her books sound very good, I like the ideas they apparently present, and I've bought several of them, yet I haven't been able to get through them. In essence, they put me to sleep. It might be the preponderance of female characters, I'm not sure.
On Facebook? How many people on Facebook even know who Plato was? *snicker*
Actually, I had no difficulty coming up with places for either list. I was surprised, though, at the number of books that are among my favorites and yet I would not ever want to even visit the places in which those stories are set. Middle Earth, for instance, where I'd have to be extremely careful of the time period. Most of the time it seems to have been in terrible, painful chaos. If one chose the "good old days" of Valimar, before all the chaos struck, then one would most likely be an elf and cursed to live so long as to see it all destroyed by pride and jealousy.
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Tamora Pierce poses a different problem for me. Her books sound very good, I like the ideas they apparently present, and I've bought several of them, yet I haven't been able to get through them. In essence, they put me to sleep. It might be the preponderance of female characters, I'm not sure.
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I wonder how many people listed Plato's Republic...
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Like Middle Earth, though, I'd be choosy about WHEN and WHERE in Narnia. In fact, I might choose to live in Archenland rather than Narnia proper.
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Actually, I had no difficulty coming up with places for either list. I was surprised, though, at the number of books that are among my favorites and yet I would not ever want to even visit the places in which those stories are set. Middle Earth, for instance, where I'd have to be extremely careful of the time period. Most of the time it seems to have been in terrible, painful chaos. If one chose the "good old days" of Valimar, before all the chaos struck, then one would most likely be an elf and cursed to live so long as to see it all destroyed by pride and jealousy.
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