TOP TEN MOST VIVID WORLDS/SETTINGS IN BOOKS:
10. Marabar Caves in A Passage to India, by E.M. Forster
9. Miss Havisham's House in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
8. The Arena in The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
7. Narnia in The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
6. The Fens in Waterland by Graham Swift
5. The Cupboard in Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks
4. Paris in A Moveable Feast by Earnest Hemingway
3. West Egg and glitzy parties in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. Post-Apocalyptic America in The Road by Cormac McCarthy
1. The Secret Garden in The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgsen Burnett
What settings have remained with you from your reading?
YAY The Secret Garden. I love this one :-)
ReplyDeleteWhat a great List!
-Cassie
Superb list! I think Miss Havisham's house would be my number one. So haunting.
ReplyDeleteNarnia is in mine too. The Road is a great choice! I love that you included The Secret Garden because it was always one of my favorites. Nice list! :)
ReplyDeleteReally great list- love how you got so specific. I considered The Road too0 McCarthy does such a great job creating something so stark and horrific.
ReplyDeleteoooh so many good ones. The area would be cool like on a tour haha
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hmm, quite a few of these I haven't read. But I remember watching the indian in the cupboard as a kid and totally crying! I haven't read the secret garden either, but love that movie (gosh, it sounds like all I do is watch movies, I promise, I actually read!)
ReplyDeleteHere's a link to mine!
I have Great Gatsby on my list too! So glad that I am not the only one!!
ReplyDeletehere's mine :]
http://little-red-reads.blogspot.com/2012/07/top-ten-tuesday-4.html
xo Stephanie
Awesome List!!! Secret Garden, how did I forget to include that one on my list??? I love Miss Havishams house and the cupboard from Indian in the Cupboard also!!
ReplyDeleteYES! The Secret Garden!! So true. It is so very vivid and I wish I had a green thumb to re-create something like this. I've not read The Secret Garden in years! I should totally pick it up.
ReplyDeleteThe Secret Garden is such a good choice! I just saw the pretty, pretty edition that Target has yesterday and thought that I need to reread it sometime. It's been since middle school.
ReplyDeleteI LOVE the choice of the Cupboard from THE INDIAN IN THE CUPBOARD! Anything was possible there.
ReplyDeleteThe Road for sure. I focused on place I wanted to see because they were so vivid to me so that excluded The Road. But it was one of the first ones I thought of.
ReplyDeleteAn excellent list. Yes to Paris from Moveable Feast! Yes to Narnia! Yes to The Road's scary world. Great list.
ReplyDeleteI was definitely transported to the parties so vividly described in Gatsby. Ah, Paris with Hemingway. What a terrific list!
ReplyDeleteAngela @ AJ Arndt Books Blog
Thank you for reminding me of the Marabar Caves and The Secret Garden! Garden was one of my old favorites, and I would not have thought of Forster, but you're right--the whole clash of cultures business in that book hinges on the caves and their atmosphere. Awesome.
ReplyDeleteGreat list! I have yet to get around to Forster's A Passage to India (<3 A Room with a View and The Longest Journey by him) and Hemingway in general but glad to hear that they're some vivid settings in both books!
ReplyDeleteAm ridiculously late but thanks for dropping by my TTT last week! =)
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