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Mike Downs:
If you could travel to any fictional book world, where would you go and what would you do there?
Mike Downs
I'm not sure if your question is genre specific or novel specific. However, the following is the answer as I see it.
As I have been involved in auto racing most of my life, the question of travel to a fictional book world quickly comes to mind.
The books to inspire me would come from Hemingway, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, and Chandler. I would be racing in America's golden era of the 1920' to the 1940's. My cars and airplanes would be the fastest in the world, and life would be lived in the fast paced company depicted in those novels.
I enjoy writing novels in this same era, and love conjuring characters and scenes that use the spirit of that time. Faulkner's and Chandler's wonderful use of dialog make me want to produce a product I feel that shows I have learned something from them.
As I have been involved in auto racing most of my life, the question of travel to a fictional book world quickly comes to mind.
The books to inspire me would come from Hemingway, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, and Chandler. I would be racing in America's golden era of the 1920' to the 1940's. My cars and airplanes would be the fastest in the world, and life would be lived in the fast paced company depicted in those novels.
I enjoy writing novels in this same era, and love conjuring characters and scenes that use the spirit of that time. Faulkner's and Chandler's wonderful use of dialog make me want to produce a product I feel that shows I have learned something from them.
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