Is Your Town Famous In Fiction?

[hothannah]

I found this interesting (in a pointless kind of way)

http://www.atlasoffiction.com/

Is where you live immortalised by a book?

It is a little limited at the moment though.

 

[Nikkifan19]

Not a book, but I have heard Father's Day originated in Spokane, Washington.

 

[Artimus]

Is where you live immortalised by a book?

My guess is yes.

How about where you live?

 

[hothannah]

Mine isn't.

I live in Nowheresville, Obscuriland

 

[Artimus]

I live in Nowheresville, Obscuriland

You Don't Say!!!

I've got an uncle who lives there. He considers it his own little slice of heaven.

 

[DreamSparrow]

Hampstead, London. So, yes... it's been mentioned a few times here and there. :tongue:

 

[darkwarrior3007]

I don't know about a book but my town Stamford, CT is the setting for the event that started "Civil War" in Marvel Comics.

 

[Artimus]

I don't know about a book but my town Stamford, CT is the setting for the event that started "Civil War" in Marvel Comics.

Nitro blowing himself up?

 

[titsrock]

My birth town...Yes. My "hometown" (San Diego)..yes, probably in some mystery book series. My current town...hmm..I think so?

 

[jason43506]

my town was in the movie heathers with christian slater

sherwood ,ohio

and the prize winner of defiance ,ohio was based around the defiance area where i live

 

[meesterperfect]

my hometown has less than a thousand residents in it when I grew up there.
It hasn't been immortalized but Bruce Springsteen referred to it in at least one or two songs.

 

[hiimrudd]

"The Monkey Wrench Gang" by Abbey

 

[dick van cock]

Not only my town in general, but even my life in particular:

Samuel Beckett - The Endgame

 

[thatzeppellin]

according to the site posted, nothing written about orlando ,florida

 

[darkwarrior3007]

Nitro blowing himself up?

Yeah that's the one.

 

[senob44]

The town where I grew up, Nutley, NJ is referenced often in The Illuminatus! Trilogy, three novels written by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson.

Also many Sopranos episodes had scenes in Nutley.

 

[BlueBalls]

London, so many, many books are set here.

 

[dave_rhino]

Yuuup, I'm glad you asked!

My town and the surrounding area is where War Of The Worlds was originally based.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds

The giant tripod statue is found in my town centre (Woking).


If only Spielberg had stayed true to the original, my town would be world famous :1orglaugh

 

[calpoon]

Tucson, AZ has a movie studio that is modeled after an Old West town, and many famous westerns were filmed here.

"The Monkey Wrench Gang" by Abbey

You live by Lake Powell? that was the main setting for the book, although it also had various locations in UT, NM, and AZ, maybe even Nevada, I don't remember.

Ed Abbey also used to live here in town.

 

[sdj374]

Biily Joel wrote a song about it and yes it is that bad (worse actually)