The Dictionary of Imaginary Places: The Newly Updated and Expanded Classic

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Summary: Strange, but Amazing
Review: I recieved this book for Christmas from my paternal grandparents, who always give me tight stuff. I was crazy about this book, which covers every imaginery place in any book from Prospero's Island in "The Tempest" (great play, by the way) to Thomas More's Utopia. It was an amazing book. If you have ever loved any fantasy book, get this book! It has something to satisfy every interest.

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Summary: Very fun book
Review: I thought this was a wonderful book, both for reader and for writers. I am going to buy one for my brother now! And as for the imaginary places they left out, my guess on that would be that the people who own the copyrights on those imaginary places would not allow the author or publisher to include them in this book. I noted that although Xanth is not there (Piers Anthony), Neverwhere is (Neil Gaiman); they are both contempory authors and I think that just boiled down to permission. It seems that everything that is no longer copywrited is included.

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Summary: Concentrated nectar
Review: No one writes as beautifully as they do when they are writing about an imaginary place.

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Summary: Read book, is cool
Review: The book is faithful to the originals and includes wonderful synopses of the place (I'd like to go to some). I'd reccomend this book!!!

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Summary: A wonderful book but...
Review: This book is a wonderful vehicle for the imagination, but I hope the next edition includes Pooh's Hundred Acre Wood. How could the authors have missed this one?

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Summary: Absolutely Wonderful!
Review: This book was abosolutely wonderful! I love how they have updated A LOT. For example they have added aome Harry Potter entries which I love! To find outthe rest youll just have to buy it!

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Summary: Ideal book for inspiration, recreation
Review: This book, which has places from Lovecraft, Tolkien, Baum, and nearly every other fiction writer, is really a gem. It has cross references between related locales, bibliogaphic data for research papers and the like, and maps and pictures. You can look up virtually every allusion there is to made up places, and tourist information is included if you somehow manage to get to any of them. I recommend this book heartily, and have enjoyed it constantly for the nearly 10 years I've owned it.

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Summary: A wonderful book but...
Review: This is a wonderful vehicle for the imagination, but I hope the next edition includes Pooh's Hundred Acre Wood. How could the authors have missed this one? Perhaps a copyright issue?

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Summary: Oh, the Places You Can Go!
Review: This is the perfect companion for anyone who loves to daydream and go to imaginary places. The Abbey of the Rose would easily be the setting for a great romance and one of my favorites is Exopotamia, that vast deserted land "that because of the total lack of air, the atmosphere seems very healthy." Cloudcuckooland is another fav, a place I know well in my daydreams. Buy it, read it, over and over again. Sheer pleasure!