Fiction to reality.
Dec 28th 2007, 10:51 pm
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Fiction to reality.
If you could suddenly find out that one work of fiction was actually true, what book would you select?
Dec 28th 2007, 11:00 pm
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Re: Fiction to reality.
Are 1984 and Animal Farm not already true?
A Happy New Year to you by the way.
A Happy New Year to you by the way.
Dec 28th 2007, 11:02 pm
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Re: Fiction to reality.
Nice one, really good question.
How about my diary??
How about my diary??
Dec 28th 2007, 11:28 pm
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Re: Fiction to reality.
Faerie Tale by Raymond E. Feist.
Dec 28th 2007, 11:31 pm
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Re: Fiction to reality.
Seen too many movies and read too many books where I've thought "hang on a minute..... I know this story." in some cases that thought continued with a "Because, I was there."
Be very careful what you wish for.
Be very careful what you wish for.
Dec 29th 2007, 12:04 am
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Re: Fiction to reality.
I asked the question and I can't even think of anything as an answer. 
The only thing that keeps coming to my mind is Fox in Socks by Dr Seuss.
The only thing that keeps coming to my mind is Fox in Socks by Dr Seuss.
Dec 29th 2007, 12:32 am
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Re: Fiction to reality.
The Historian Elizabeth Kostova
Dec 29th 2007, 12:35 am
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Re: Fiction to reality.
The bible. Then I'd be looking forward to an afterlife free of christians.
Dec 29th 2007, 1:18 am
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Re: Fiction to reality.
Peas, what a good question.......I'm thinking, I'm thinking......The only one I can think of is Watership Down 
let me think on it a little longer and hopefully I will get back to you
P.S. Mona looks great today!
let me think on it a little longer and hopefully I will get back to youP.S. Mona looks great today!
Last edited by Piff Poff; Dec 29th 2007 at 1:19 am. Reason: P.S.
Dec 29th 2007, 2:22 am
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Re: Fiction to reality.
Hitch hikers guide to the galaxy.......
I would like to have one of those babel fish things and a paranoid android. I think I have already been to the restaurant at the end of the universe though
I would like to have one of those babel fish things and a paranoid android. I think I have already been to the restaurant at the end of the universe though
Dec 29th 2007, 2:39 am
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Re: Fiction to reality.
I like Anne McAffrey's (sp?
) Pern series..... I'd like to live there! 
) Pern series..... I'd like to live there!
Dec 29th 2007, 2:49 am
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Re: Fiction to reality.
"Newcastle United FC: The Dominant Force of the New 21C Football" published by Novocastrian Press, December 2099.
<I've started on a draft>
<I've started on a draft>
Dec 29th 2007, 4:41 pm
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Re: Fiction to reality.
The Magic Faraway Tree!
