Goodreads asked Michael Reed:

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

Michael Reed Funny enough (or maybe not funny at all, depending on how you choose to look at it), when I started thinking about settings for my favorite books I realized most of them take place in a world that is not particularly appealing. And in the cases the book is set in a reasonably good locale, less-than-desirable events are are about to take place. Kesey (a mental institution, no less), Bukowski, Hunter Thompson, Roth, Salinger, Orwell, even Steinbeck? I think I'll stick to reading about these worlds, thank you.

I did come up with one great locale for you from a favorite book -- Iowa. The Iowa of W.P. Kinsella's "Shoeless Joe," which I read years before the movie based on it, "Field of Dreams," came out. In the book, a farmer builds a baseball diamond and old-time baseball players come out of the corn at night to play games with the farmer's late father. I love baseball would take great pleasure in seeing ghost versions of Babe Ruth and his buddies play America's pastime on a nightly basis.

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