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Science fiction and fantasy is fun to read, but I don’t know I’d actually want to visit a lot of the places I read about because I enjoy things like a warm home (or air conditioning in the summer), internet access, regular meals, clean bedsheets, and not being in mortal danger. 😉
Here are some fictional worlds I would not like to visit due to how dangerous they are:
Jurassic Park (or Jurassic anything)
Pan’s Labyrinth from the film by the same name
Shutter Island from the book and film by the same name
The Overlook Hotel from The Shining
The Marvel Cinematic Universe (So many deaths in this universe)
Minecraft (Imagine a monster exploding right behind you while you were trying to build a house.)
The Purge
Plague Inc. (Surviving one pandemic was more than enough, and I’m going to hope that the H5N1 bird flu peters out and does not give us any trouble)
Silent Hill
Now let’s see how many answers we all have in common.
All places I’d not want to visit, either. The Overlook Hotel might be interesting to visit for an hour… just for the creep factor.
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I hope it gets fixed soon, Cheryl.
An hour there would be interesting! Just not at night. Haha.
No Jurassic Park for me either, Lydia. Also not a fan of creepy hotels. Great list.
Thank you. 🙂
Ye gods, I hadn’t even thought about the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Seems like a nice place, not bad at all, why is my city suddenly flying into the air and all the office buildings crumbling? Or worse, you wake up one morning and discover that you’ve been living the last three years in the equivalent of The Truman Show because some traumatized superhero used her reality-shaping powers to reinvent your neighborhood and her life.
Exactly!
I would be OK visiting the Overlook Hotel’s ballroom during the crowd scene, but otherwise nooooo.
The crowd scenes would be fairly safe times to visit, I think!
When I was a teenager I read Jurassic Park late into the night and was so engaged with the book that I felt like I could hear dinosaurs outside my darkened window. It was not a good night’s sleep. My kid plays Minecraft and yeah, there are a lot of alarming moments in it! Great ideas!
You were brave to read that book so late at night. Haha.
I’m glad your kid likes Minecraft. It’s so fun.
Definitely not Jurassic Park, either. Not anywhere in Castle Rock, Maine! I picked five from classic twentieth century novels.
Cool.