If you could be stuck in a movie or book...

Dolly Levi from Hello Dolly. She wasn't a homesteader, but she sure had a zest for life!

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Marvelous Madame
Be kind to others. You do not know what burdens they are carrying.

I enjoyed all of the Sackett stories.

Was Bolan the one with the auto .22s?

A hobbit in The Lord of the Rings or Swiss Family Robinson.

.....Alan.

he had a number of weapons! can't recall them all but too be that indestructible!

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àigeach carnaid
chaora dhubh
"Don't raise your voice, improve your argument."

cruachan

Not that I want to be, but I feel like I'm trapped in the first chapter of Patriots.

I'm not a big movie person and the books I read are basically technical (how to) type. If I were trapped in any one of my books, it would be the Encyclopedia of Country Living because the author lived very near me when the first edition of her book came out (beautiful part of the country!) and because I would love to be living that lifestyle instead of where I'm trapped.

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Survivalism. It's not just for survivalists anymore.

The Ancients in Stargate SG:1 (I know it's a TV show, but also has movies now!).

OR

The robotic entity at the end of A.I. (Stephen Spielberg).

OR

A Dragonrider in the Eragon series (that was alive and well)

The Stand, as long as I was alive after July and getting the good dreams

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Apocalyptic and Survival Fiction - Readers and writers welcome

Am I the only one whose first thought was Gilligans Island? I'd be the Professor, of course.

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Peace, tremulous, unexpected, sent a taproot out of nowhere into Morgon's heart. -Patricia McKillip, Harpist in the Wind

I'd be Jaxom in Anne McCafferies "The white dragon" (Pern)
or Lew Alton in Marian zimmer bradley's "World wreckers" (Darkover)

Movie wise I'll be the kid in the last scene in night of the comet
or E Estaves in Maximum Over Drive
The postman wouldnt be bad but I wasnt all that fond of any of the people in it .

Almost any female character in Anne McCaffery's Dragonriders of Pern series. (Though I'd prefer to be a dragonrider, of course!)

Almost any female character in almost any of Heinlein's books (Just finished The moon is a Harsh Mistress!) Wouldn't mind being a Loonie during/after the book. Also wouldn't mind being one of Lazarus Long's g-g-g-g-granddaughters! For those of you who think he was sexist, his books show an incredible honesty about one thing -- he didn't understand women! Most man won't, but also won't admit it!

Or a female character in David Weber's Honor Harrington series, but only on certain planets!

Any Narnia character (Female here, too, sorry!)

The first three are post-apocalypse, many centuries post-apocalypse, the last is not.

I would not want to be in The Postman, mainly because I cannot believe that in a group of 50 (or more) people, there was not one of them willing to even think about fighting their "protectors!"

I know I'm reallllllllllllly pushing it but I would love to be Brooke Sheilds in Blue Lagoon!LOL

Really? I always wondered just how they figured out the whole giving birth thing since they had been on that island for so long and the old man had died years earlier. Was it simply a matter of instinct?

I'd probably have to say Frannie in The Stand also. The one in the book, not the movie. Of course that's today, tomorrow I could change my mind. Actually the lady in The Mist (movie this time) but I can't remember the name of her character (blonde with the revolver in her purse) would be a likely choice too.

Maggie

Let's hear it for the Dragon Riders of Pern novels!!

glad Im not the only one whos read them all

Id rather be the boy in Paradise
came out about the same time but the girl was Pheobe Cates

I too am a lover of The Stand but I have a feeling if I made it to Boulder I would be among the last, not fond of tons of people.

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I ask for so little. Just let me rule you, and you can have everything that you want. Just fear me, love me, do as I say, and I will be your slave. Jareth, Labyrinth

Okay, I like the Pern stories, too! And the Narnia chronicles, and the Lord of the Rings series -- I love Bilbo Baggins' house! If we are getting into fantasy, and choosing a place to live, I'd take Narnia, because Aslan is there.

Kathleen

Capt. Malcolm Reynolds in the Firefly series and Serenity movie because he inspires me to at least do something right even if it isn't always the smart thing to do. Sometimes you just have to believe in something even if no one else does.

In a way, they do live in a WTSHTF world where they have to eek out a living however they can because they don't want to submit to Alliance control even if it would be the easier choice.

Besides, it is a future world where one can have high technology yet still ride horses like a cowboy.

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I would challenge anyone here to think of a question upon which we once had a scientific answer, however inadequate, but for which now the best answer is a religious one. – Sam Harris

Has anyone read the Dark Tower books?? (Stephen King's primary lifes work).
I find Rolands world to be incredible

I would want to be the main guy in the book All The Pretty Horses.