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Post by mockingbrid on Feb 13, 2008 13:00:26 GMT -5
We already have a thread on where you have been by reading books, but I would like to know if you have gone anywhere that was the setting in a book you have read (or greatly resembles the setting of a book). I have been to San Francisco, where most of the Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan was set. I was reading it the same summer I went. I think I was at the beach where the little boy drowns. It matched the descriptions in the book, but so do many of the beaches near San Francisco... That's all though. I love to travel, but I really don't get out much
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Post by Isa on Feb 13, 2008 18:40:42 GMT -5
I agree, very interesting thread! Let's see... When I was in Paris I looked for the places mentioned in Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises and A Moveable Feast, in Suskind's Perfume, and although I wasn't looking for it, I did see quite a few spots mentioned in The DaVinci Code. In England I toured around Bath, where Jane Austen's Persuasion and Northanger Abbey are set. I've been to Green Gables in Prince Edward Island, Washington Square and Tiffany's on 5th in New York City... oh, also Salem, where The Crucible takes place. That's all I can think of for now
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Post by Dominique on Feb 13, 2008 19:32:33 GMT -5
Ummm... all the ones about Geishas, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Geisha of Gion etc. Can't think of any others! Will have a think and get back to you.
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Post by Michelle on Feb 13, 2008 20:21:56 GMT -5
Hmm...let's see - The Feast of Love - Ann Arbor, MI (where I live )
- Middlesex - Detroit, MI
- Time Travelers Wife - Kalamazoo area
- Angels and Demons - Vatican City
- A lot of books set in the Boston area (I used to live there) - The Namesake is the only one coming to be right now.
- I feel like I must have read something that took place in San Francisco, but I can't think of anything...
- I've been to a lot more US cities and states, but no more books are coming to me...
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Post by swissmiss on Feb 13, 2008 23:42:27 GMT -5
Well... Angels and Demons (Vatican City) Da Vinci Code (some of the places in Paris) On the Road (some of it was in Denver) Hmm I'm sure there's some other places, I only remembered these because some other people mentioned them and I just read On the Road
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Post by oureternity on Feb 14, 2008 3:28:34 GMT -5
That's a great idea for a thread!
I've been to Amsterdam too, I read about it in a few books, and I've been to a lot of other places (like Germany and Switzerland) which I read about, but when I was there I was pretty young so I don't remember everything so clearly which is a real bummer! I've also been to Jerusalem in some books, I just can't remember the exact books but I know those are the places I've been to in real life and in books!
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Post by cauthoncrazy on Feb 19, 2008 13:29:54 GMT -5
No I haven't.
However I work at a book store part time and an older gentleman came in and bought a book on Ireland with a picture of this cliff on the cover. I asked him if he had ever been to Ireland since I just went last summer.
He replied, "See this bridge over here off this side of this cliff? I grew up here and when I was a boy I would scare the American tourists off the bridge. I am buying this for old times sake, it really takes me back."
It wasn't fiction but wow talk about being to the setting!
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Post by Paige on Feb 19, 2008 20:11:40 GMT -5
Mmm...I can't really think of any places I've been to that have been the setting for a book. I guess I've been to Holcomb, Kansas, which is where the murders that Capote wrote about in In Cold Blood took place.
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Post by Halie on Feb 16, 2009 22:49:25 GMT -5
I used to live in the town that the characters from my favorite book growing up, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler are from.
Besides that, I love reading books in London because it's my favorite city, and I know my way around New York pretty well.
I also liked reading 13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson because it's really inspiring, travel-wise.
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Post by Hanna on Feb 17, 2009 5:23:31 GMT -5
I've been to Vienna and Prague, which is a the setting to a lot of Bodie Thoene books. Especially in Prague I felt that I was in the book, because she had described the landmarks so well.
I've been to Oslo where a lot of Norwegian books are set, like Hunger by Knut Hamsun.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2009 12:01:21 GMT -5
I went to Vatican city and Rome and after that I read Angels and Demons it would have been wiser to read the book first..
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Post by Hanna on Feb 18, 2009 12:54:23 GMT -5
In the book Three Weeks with My Brother, Micah and Nicholas Sparks visit Machu Picchu and Tromsø. I've been to Machu Picchu, and I've lived in Tromsø so, yay.
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Post by belle on Feb 23, 2009 4:36:10 GMT -5
I have been to Lönneberga in Sweden at Michel's farm (or Emil how he is called in Sweden) and also in Mariannelund and Vimmerby where Pippi Longstocking bought caramel. Furthermore I have been to Ystad, where the Kurt Wallander thrillers take place. Hmm, my trip to Sweden in 2006 seemed to be very literary.
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Post by Halie on Apr 10, 2009 18:51:09 GMT -5
I just recently went to Cannery Row! And I've also been to Calaveras County.
Cannery Row = Cannery Row by John Steinbeck Calaveras County = The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain
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