Posted by MaggieH (admin)
Aug 10, 2009 1:14 pm

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• Savannah Georgia, the most beautiful city ever. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil does it justice.

  Aug 10, 2009 2:10 pm
  by Caroline1946

• I would take a trip to the Isle of Palms for the summer, just like in Mary Alice Monroe's "Beach House" and "Swimming Lessons". Nothing could be better then early morning walks on the beach and hanging out with the other Turtle Ladies, locating and protecting the Loggerhead turtle nests.

  Aug 10, 2009 5:12 pm
  by Meg681

• I would go to Italy, India and Indonesia with the main character of Eat, Pray, Love. Her descriptions of the food and fun of Italy had me pining to go there.

  Aug 10, 2009 5:17 pm
  by snider

• The south east of New Brunswick Canada. We just moved to this paradise on the first of July and have totally fallen in love with the great scenery, the gracious people, and the wonderful seafood.

  Aug 10, 2009 6:50 pm
  by Socratoad

• "If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast." I would go to Hemingway's Paris

  Aug 10, 2009 9:23 pm
  by eyewrite

• "Devil in the White City's" Chicago. I'm near it in reality but it sounds so thrilling and exciting then, if not a bit dangerous.

  Aug 11, 2009 12:05 pm
  by booknerd825

• I want to visit Steinbeck's California.
  
  I have visited over half the States but never made it west of Vegas. I am planning on going to San Francisco for my 5 year anniversary in October but we won't be leaving the city. It is frustrating to know I will be so close but it will still be waiting for me when I am able to visit.
  
  For a less serious answer I would have to go with Ankh Morpork from Terry Pratchett's Discworld books.

  Aug 11, 2009 4:20 pm
  by cresswga

• I would like to visit Virginia Woolf's London to experience shopping with Mrs Dalloway or I would also like to visit Terry Pratchett's Discworld just for the experience of exploring an alternative universe.

  Aug 12, 2009 11:34 am
  by Lou2Rou

• Colleen McCullough's Rome and Egypt, (Masters of Rome series) hands down. A very exciting time in history. Second would be Mumbai (Sacred Games).

  Aug 14, 2009 2:45 pm
  by january8

• Any of Greene's locales with a good bottle of gin.

  Aug 15, 2009 4:08 pm
  by spudpatch

• Without a doubt, I would revisit Florence, Italy ... "A Room With a View". I studied there my junior year of college and have always loved that city.

  Aug 15, 2009 5:26 pm
  by arolfe1

• Anne's Green Gables in PEI Canada. It always sounded so peaceful and beautiful.

  Aug 18, 2009 9:37 am
  by jmaranvi

• I would like to visit London in Dickens' time. It was a rough time and the air was sooty and it was always foggy. I just want to live in that era briefly.

  Aug 18, 2009 9:48 am
  by chrispy

• I would take a summer vacation to F.Scott Fitzgeralds "Tender Is The Night" in the French Riviera. The fist 40 pages of the book talks way too much about a girl laying on the beach, observing the many family's and individuals who are staying on the resort, but for the most part I wouldn't really mind doing that in real life.
  
  I'd also stay in Ernest Hemingways "A Moveable Feast" in the Paris winter(not summer, I know) checking out books from Shakespeare&Company, and writing short stories all day and every day. But for a more summer outlook, also Hemingways "The Sun Also Rises", traveling in Spain and celebrating with the spaniards at the 2 week festivals!

  Aug 18, 2009 3:05 pm
  by beattifickid89

• I have just finished Geraldine Brooks, People of the Book and it is so culturally fascinating because of the locations and history. It takes you to London, Venice, Vienna, Sarajevo, Jerusalem, Tarragona, Arnhem Land, Gunumeleng, and Boston. She is the one writer living that I think people will be reading in a 100 years.

  Aug 18, 2009 4:45 pm
  by dreamdust

• Definitely Hogwarts! :)

  Aug 19, 2009 3:26 pm
  by Lolabean

• Pre-war Edwardian England, as long I belonged to the aristocracy, with a large London Brownstone and huge country 'House" like in 'Brideshead Revisited, with summers at our Tuscany Villa.

  Aug 22, 2009 1:18 am
  by elliott57

• Neverland or Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World.

  Aug 24, 2009 4:22 am
  by saturntv

• A Year in Provence...but read "A Dog's Life" for another view of Provence from the POV of the Englishman's adopted French mutt! It's really good fun: "Chickens are that perfect combination of sport and nourishment" says the mutt, about his habit of raiding the barnyard of the neighbors. I have re-read and recommended that book many times.

  Aug 26, 2009 4:21 pm
  by BookMuncher

• I would rather go to a place that is very relaxing and of course I want to be with my family.

  Aug 26, 2009 4:27 pm
  by sportswatch09

• Travelling back to the time of "A Room with a View" set in Florence and the outskirts would be my bet as well, @arolfe1. In fact, we just came back from Florence and hanging out in the Piazza della Signoria I was transported back to the scene of the murder where the young man saves the woman. Since little has changed on the piazza, it was easy to imagine the characters in play.

  Aug 26, 2009 7:42 pm
  by susan (admin)

• I would love to visit New Orleans as written by Anne Rice or Poppy Z Brite

  Sep 9, 2009 11:01 am
  by badfalcon