Goodreads asked Jonathan Heaslet:

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

Jonathan Heaslet I contend that this question is seeking to trick me into revealing my all time favorite book. Instead, I'm going to say that my reading habits tend toward those books that take me to unfamiliar places and uncomfortable people and situations. Scan down the list of books on my reading list and see if you don't agree. I have gone to Community (THE GIVER), to Tehran (READING LOLITA...), to Native American nations (AN INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S HISTORY...), to California with the Joad's (GRAPES OF WRATH), to New York with Eva Khatchadourian (WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN), to Chile with Victor Dalmau (LONG PETAL OF THE SEA), even to Hell (SCREWTAPE LETTERS). For me learning intellectually and feeling empathetically occur when I am removed from my suburban, middle class lifestyle in the USA.
So, you ask where would I go and what would I do? My answer: to someplace I've never been and to be with people unlike myself.

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