by Peter Joseph Swanson
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April 13, 2007

NAME GAME: name a town in a work of fiction

January 15, 2008 05:22 PM EST
views: 73 | rating: 9.6/10 (22 votes) | comments: 94
It can be a real town or the name of a fantasy land - please also add the name of the novel.
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Comments: 94

juley g. Jan 15, 2008, 5:24pm EST
Greenbough Alabama, Forrest Gump
DIANE D. Jan 15, 2008, 5:25pm EST
LA LA LAND
Debby O. Jan 15, 2008, 5:26pm EST
Nowhere'sville, USA
Jerusalem
Oops, Jerusalem--The Old Testament and New Testament
Jaye S. Jan 15, 2008, 5:32pm EST
The place in Where the Heart is. Can't think of the name though.
Peter Joseph Swanson Jan 15, 2008, 5:32pm EST
Somebody please say Hollywood, HOLLYWOOD SINNERS
Vivian P. Jan 15, 2008, 5:32pm EST
Never Never Land
Peter Joseph Swanson Jan 15, 2008, 5:32pm EST
I guess now that I said it ...

ha ha
Heather C. Jan 15, 2008, 5:33pm EST
Metropolis - Superman
Peter Joseph Swanson Jan 15, 2008, 5:33pm EST
I LOVE Never Never Land. You don't need to provide the name of that book !!!
CC Miranda the artrat (or am i?) Jan 15, 2008, 5:33pm EST
peter you already did! but okay, Hollywood, CA from Hollywood Sinners by Peter Joseph Swanson
Peter Joseph Swanson Jan 15, 2008, 5:33pm EST
Oh yeah, Metropolis was SO COOL !!!
Vivian P. Jan 15, 2008, 5:33pm EST
Sequoyah Oklahoma is the town in Where the Heart is
CC Miranda the artrat (or am i?) Jan 15, 2008, 5:34pm EST
New Orleans, LA - a confederacy of dunces
Peter Joseph Swanson Jan 15, 2008, 5:34pm EST
Thank you CC. Miranda - it's nicer when somebody else does.
Vivian P. Jan 15, 2008, 5:34pm EST
Hollywood Sinners feel better King Peter
Kathy D. Jan 15, 2008, 5:34pm EST
The Emerald City from The Wizard of Oz
Vicky Duggins Jan 15, 2008, 5:34pm EST
Bedford Falls - It's a Wonderful Life
Vicky Duggins Jan 15, 2008, 5:34pm EST
Um.. why are you wearing a crown?
Peter Joseph Swanson Jan 15, 2008, 5:35pm EST
HOLLYWOOD HOLLYWOOD HOLLYWOOD

(I get excited)
Peter Joseph Swanson Jan 15, 2008, 5:35pm EST
I'm King of La La Land !!!
Heather C. Jan 15, 2008, 5:36pm EST
Phoenix, Arizona - Psycho
Heather C. Jan 15, 2008, 5:38pm EST
The Black Dahlia Story - Los Angeles
Vicky Duggins Jan 15, 2008, 5:38pm EST
Okie Dokie.
Heather C. Jan 15, 2008, 5:39pm EST
The Robe, Jerusalem Israel
ann c. Jan 15, 2008, 5:41pm EST
Narnia
CC Miranda the artrat (or am i?) Jan 15, 2008, 5:41pm EST
algonquin, maine - every stephen king book
Peter Joseph Swanson Jan 15, 2008, 5:43pm EST
Lake Woebegone (but was that from a novel?)
Heather C. Jan 15, 2008, 5:44pm EST
Honolulu - Hawaii James Mitchner
ann c. Jan 15, 2008, 5:44pm EST
Atlanta, Georgia - Gone with the Wind
ann c. Jan 15, 2008, 5:45pm EST
Runnymeade, Maryland - Bingo by Rita Mae Brown
Heather C. Jan 15, 2008, 5:46pm EST
Vorbarr Sultana - Shards of Honor Lois McMaster-Bujold (She writes great sci fi)
Hollywood, Fla--several Elmore Leonard books
Shannon S. Jan 15, 2008, 5:47pm EST
Savannah
ann c. Jan 15, 2008, 5:48pm EST
Land of Oz from the Wizard of
Fran S. Jan 15, 2008, 5:49pm EST
how about Hooterville, anyone remember that one?? With the girls and uncle joe?
Heather C. Jan 15, 2008, 5:49pm EST
Chancellorsville - The Red Badge of Courage
CC Miranda the artrat (or am i?) Jan 15, 2008, 5:49pm EST
i'm gonna visit savannah in february and tour the house where Jim Williams lived in the Johnny Mercer house. if ya don't know what i'm talking about, read "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil."
ann c. Jan 15, 2008, 5:50pm EST
New Orleans from Streetcar Named Desire
ann c. Jan 15, 2008, 5:52pm EST
Washington D.C. from Primary Colors
Peter Joseph Swanson Jan 15, 2008, 5:52pm EST
Washington D.C. was a grown over jungle in Logan's Run.
Ishbel R. Jan 15, 2008, 5:52pm EST
My home city of Edinburgh is central to the novels of Ian Rankin, Alexander McCall Smith and Paul Johnston.
Peter Joseph Swanson Jan 15, 2008, 5:53pm EST
I saw the movie version of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.
Heather C. Jan 15, 2008, 5:54pm EST
Cottington, England The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Don(time to open them FEMA camps) S. Jan 15, 2008, 5:54pm EST
Derry Maine.
ann c. Jan 15, 2008, 5:54pm EST
London and Paris - Tale of Two Cities
Peter Joseph Swanson Jan 15, 2008, 5:55pm EST
I bet there's a lot of neat town names in the Miss Marple books !!!
ann c. Jan 15, 2008, 5:56pm EST
Paris, France - Les Miserables
Heather C. Jan 15, 2008, 5:56pm EST
Charleston, South Carolina Porgy and Bess
Peter Joseph Swanson Jan 15, 2008, 5:56pm EST
Was The Glass Menagerie in St. Louis?
ann c. Jan 15, 2008, 5:57pm EST
Ramsdale, a New England town - Lolita
Heather C. Jan 15, 2008, 6:00pm EST
Saint Petersburgh, Russia "Anastasia:The Lost Princess" James Blair Lovell
Peter Joseph Swanson Jan 15, 2008, 6:01pm EST
Venice - The Merchant of Venice
Heather C. Jan 15, 2008, 6:02pm EST
Amityville - Long Isand, New York The Amityville Horror- Jay Anson
ann c. Jan 15, 2008, 6:02pm EST
Thorton, Tennessee, A Summons to Memphis - Peter Taylor
CC Miranda the artrat (or am i?) Jan 15, 2008, 6:03pm EST
peter, the book was way better.

Kyoto, Japan - Memoirs of a Geisha
Heather C. Jan 15, 2008, 6:03pm EST
Salem, Mass The Salem Witch Trials - by Lori Lee Wilson
ann c. Jan 15, 2008, 6:04pm EST
Trenton, New Jersey, any Stephanie Plum novels by Janet Evanovich
ann c. Jan 15, 2008, 6:07pm EST
London, Paris, Rome and others, The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
Heather C. Jan 15, 2008, 6:07pm EST
London, England - Diana: Portrait of a Princess by Jayne Fincher
ann c. Jan 15, 2008, 6:08pm EST
BTW Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is non-fiction.
Peter Joseph Swanson Jan 15, 2008, 6:08pm EST
I thought the movie was a bit stiff. I bet the book is rich in detail only writing can provide.
Peter Joseph Swanson Jan 15, 2008, 6:09pm EST
Copenhagen - Smila's Sense of Snow

(also the book MUCH better than the movie)
ann c. Jan 15, 2008, 6:10pm EST
Cairo, Egypt, "He Shall Thunder in the Sky" by Elizabeth Peters
ann c. Jan 15, 2008, 6:11pm EST
Kryptonopolis, "Last Days of Krypton" by Kevin Anderson
Heather C. Jan 15, 2008, 6:12pm EST
Segovia, Spain For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway I knew his grandaughter Margo
Rob Appell Jan 15, 2008, 6:13pm EST
Brigadoon
ann c. Jan 15, 2008, 6:16pm EST
Beverly Hills, LA, San Monica and others, "The Wedding" by Danielle Steel
ann c. Jan 15, 2008, 6:17pm EST
Memphis, Tennesse "The Ladies' Auxiliary" by Tova Mirvis
Heather C. Jan 15, 2008, 6:18pm EST
Juffure, Africa Roots: The Saga of an American Family - Alex Haley
Heather C. Jan 15, 2008, 6:18pm EST
Paris, France To the Scaffold: The Life of Marie Antoinette - Carolly Ericson
CC Miranda the artrat (or am i?) Jan 15, 2008, 6:19pm EST
well, liberties were taken.

so then lets use this reference for Savannah - The Bluegrass Conspiracy
Elaine A. Jan 15, 2008, 6:19pm EST
I can't think of anything. But I am making a comment and giving you a *10* because I wanted to do something, I mean you can't help it if I can't think ;-)
ann c. Jan 15, 2008, 6:22pm EST
Maycomb, Alabama "To Kill a Mockingbird" - Harper Lee
CC Miranda the artrat (or am i?) Jan 15, 2008, 6:24pm EST
Tahlequah - Where The Red Fern Grows
Johannes 1. Jan 15, 2008, 6:26pm EST
Ithaca- Telemachus


Wolfgang
Ishbel R. Jan 15, 2008, 6:28pm EST
London - many of the novels of

Charles Dickens
Ruth Rendell
Jane Austen
And too many more to list!
CC Miranda the artrat (or am i?) Jan 15, 2008, 6:31pm EST
Wall - Stardust by Neil Gaiman
CC Miranda the artrat (or am i?) Jan 15, 2008, 6:34pm EST
whoville - the grinch who stole christmas
Karl Leuba Jan 15, 2008, 6:40pm EST
Fictitious town, Gotham City...Superman.
Real town La La Land...Los Angeles, Dashiel Hammet pulp fiction.
Karl Leuba Jan 15, 2008, 6:45pm EST
Ottumwa, Iowa, MASH...
Ginger C. Jan 15, 2008, 7:26pm EST
Arrakeen was one of the largest cities on the desert planet Arrakis--> Dune by Frank Herbert.

Emerald City--> Wizard of OZ
sharon SugarMomma is a wise woman, Jan 15, 2008, 7:34pm EST
Avalon - Marian Zimmer Bradley's "Mysts of Avalon"
Darkover - planet in the trilogy of the same name by Marian Zimmer Bradley
River City - The Music Man
Oklahoma - Oklahoma
Brooklyn - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
San Francisco - "The Kitchen God's Wife" Amy Tan
Abby N. Jan 15, 2008, 11:42pm EST
Timbuck two?
Kylee **Queen of Karaoke** S. Jan 16, 2008, 10:06am EST
Avonlea-The Anne of Green Gables storis by Lucy Maude Montgomery

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