Goodreads asked Virginia Arthur:

If you could travel to any fictional book world, where would you go and what would you do there?

Virginia Arthur There are many but a few immediately come to mind:

All the King's Horses by Kurt Vonnegut. It takes place in Asia and he wrote it during the Cold War. The story is about a captured Colonel and his family and small number of his troops that are forced to act as human chess pieces in a sadistic game of chess between the Colonel and the communist leader that captured them. Any wrong move, literally, by the Colonel results in the execution of his family members, soldiers. I read this story as a young girl and was completely enraptured by the idea of humans acting as chess pieces=a human chess game. Would be a blast to participate in as long as it doesn't result in executions!

One of Carlos Castenada's nightly spirit walks through the desert would be cool, though maybe without getting nailed by a lot of cacti.

I would love a chance to look in as the dumpy, outcast soldier is accidentally kissed in the dark room in Chekhov's "The Kiss".

I would love to visit Aldous Huxley's fictional island, Pala, and teach a few classes for them using their system that teaches the children how to learn by viewing something as art, say a flower, then they view that same flower from the perspective of science. In fact, I teach a class based based entirely around this book and this approach. I'm just lacking the tropical setting! Anyone?

Many more!

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