This week's Top Ten Tuesday topic from That Artsy Reader Girl involves Bookish Worlds I’d Want to/Never Want to Live In. Since I did a similar post a while back about Bookish Settings I'd Love to Visit, this time I'm going with Worlds That I Would Never Want to Live In. I'm using both real places (but as they are described in the book) as well as fantasy worlds for this one.
1) Panem - The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins
2) Tanakuatua - Web by John Wyndham
It's an island of spiders that learn how to work together like ants. Enough said.
3) England - Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
4) Menzoberranzan - Drizzt Do'Urden books (Forgotten Realms) by R.A. Salvatore
5) The Boat - Life of Pi by Yann Martel
6) Glen Ellyn, Illinois - The Girl Who Owned a City by O. T. Nelson
Since everyone above the age of 12 is dead, I would be, well, not having much luck.
7) Forks, Washington - Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
8) Jurassic Park - Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
9) Middle Earth - Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
A place where Shelob exists is somewhere I don't want to be.
10) Terrasen - Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas
Honourable Mentions:
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- 1984 by George Orwell
- New York in The Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
OMG! Jurassic park, that was a pretty stupid idea to even create it but then they went back for more and more. Some people never learn!
ReplyDeleteGreat list!
My TTT: https://fantasyraiders.wordpress.com/2018/05/29/top-ten-tuesday-my-favorite-world-builders/#more-8428
Why oh why do they not learn?!?
DeleteAgreed on Menzoberranzan. I'd wind up dead within a day. Hahaha. Icewind Dale, on the other hand, I'd try that. :)
ReplyDeleteHere is our Top Ten Tuesday. Thank you!
Who wouldn't? That place is terrifying!
DeleteI would never want to visit Panem either!
ReplyDeleteMy TTT: https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2018/05/29/top-ten-tuesday-161/
No the happiest environment, that's for sure.
DeleteI agree with most of your list, but I would be gone in a heartbeat to Jurassic Park or Middle Earth! Dino-loving Hobbit girl right here :)
ReplyDeleteAs much as I'd love some areas of Middle Earth, other parts scare the heck out of me.
DeleteI'd like to think I'd be really bad-ass and win the Hunger Games but.. I'm the type of person who gets picked last for sports so Panem doesn't sound like a good idea to me either.
ReplyDeleteI think I might make it as a trained assassin or spy in a fantasy novel...but am certain I would fail in situations like The Hunger Games (except maybe with knowing what plants and herbs to eat).
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