Do you like reading books about places you've never been?

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Yes, I currently on a quest to write a list of ten most spectacular places, sights like the Namib desert in Namibia and the vertiginous village in Manarola Italy. Does anyone know other places? Thanks
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Books and travel have always been intertwined, thus going through the pages of the book is almost like going through the streets of a city as vivid as the description can be as alive is the experience. once set eyes on the pages one set eyes on the places, sometimes reading can even be a greater ride than the trip itself.
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Yes, I am currently putting up a list of ten unique places like Namib desert in Namibia and Vertiginous village in Manarola Italy. Please tell me other places you know.
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Yeah especially if planing to visit or plans to visit some day soon. would like to have a general idea about the people living there, their culture and and important info that will help me feel at ease when i visit.
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yes definatelty ...i love reading about them so much cos m a kinda peson dat loves knowing places especially places av nt been to.. so to me its life giving
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Post by Manuela Herrera »

Absolutely, I often think of books as transporting machines that take me to places I have never seen, be it a real place or an imaginary one. I love how they show glimpses of different cultures, places and events.
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DDunstock wrote:I do, for sure. But I also love to read books about places I have been. It just gives me a base with the book and an element of familiarity. However, as we all know, you can learn so much from books and thus, learn a lot about places that you haven't ever been to.
I would have to agree with you on this aspect of reading about places we know. Sometimes I'm surprised at what other's find in places that are familiar to me. I'll actually go look it up to see if it was something fictional the author added to a place OR if I'd been missing at on something interesting.
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I enjoy reading books about places I have never been because it helps me learn more about the world, the cultures, the people and their traditions. I, too, have just finished reading, My Trip to Adele. I appreciated the italicized references to objects and other aspects of religion and culture. I could then find definitions and the story would become more relevant.
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I enjoy reading about places I've never been, or as others have mentioned, even imaginary worlds I can never visit. I'm visiting Europe for the first time in the fall, and plan to read a few books set in each country I intend to explore. I've found that a passage about setting is often lovely to read without having experienced the real thing, but once I've actually visited the place in question, I experience a level of exhilaration--at the recognition and poetic rendering of something I've taken in with my own senses--upon rereading that is unparalleled.
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I prefer to read books about places I've been. It helps me to know how accurate they are. If I haven't been there, I usually assume the author is taking liberties with describing places so it never inspires me to travel there. Maybe I'm just jaded by too many inaccuracies with movies/tv shows...
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Definitely yes
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Well, it is an interesting way to know more about that particular place (unless the place is made up).
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Yes, I do love reading books about places that I've never been to. Especially when the writers wrote beautifully of such places, it does makes me imagine of the place and how living there would be? But more so, if the places are fictional from the writers' imagination.
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Yes I do. However, If the story's context heavily relies on the location I find myself lost and irritated trying to make sense of a lot of things :techie-studyinggray:
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Post by Shylet Moyo »

l really enjoy reading novels about places that l've never been to because l get to know about those place and l get to explore such places with my mind. The novels clearly describe those place and through that l become aware about the culture, lifestyle and beauty of the area
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