Every week, I'll be making a pinned post inviting you to share your favorite books with the slop-hungry hogs of Hexbear 
. Each week will be loosely structured around a particular genre, time period or other theme.
Last week's thread can be found here
For this week's theme: Worlds to get lost in
Books whose settings are so vividly painted that it's a pleasure just to spend time in them. Maybe it's a particular historical moment brought to life or a fantastical world. Perhaps it's a particular scene or milleu. Whatever the case, even if you wouldn't want to live there in real life, you don't want to come back to reality either.
Optional nerd discussion questions
What techniques does the author use to achieve the verisimilitude of their world? What particular aspects of the setting do you, personally, find so compelling? What is most alien about the setting to your own experience? What is most familiar?
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Piranesi was such an enjoyable book.
EDIT, just going to spoiler text what I said about the book just to be safe
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I loved how the innocence and ignorance of the main character was so strong that you had to infer a lot from things he described kind of obliquely.
Spoiler::: spoiler Big spoilers, but only partially given. Be cautious I definitely thought that he was a more reliable narrator for a while (or at least that he wasn't limited in narration possibilities by what you were to learn) and as such missed so much that felt so obvious later. Like his relations to the other one. Just felt absurd to think that I really took it at face value. But I loved that anyways :::