I work in set design and whenever I read I’m always drawn in by the locations and ‘sets’ of the book. So I wondered what places from books have really drawn other people in and stayed with them, that if you took away the characters and plot the setting would still be amazing. It could be a single room or a whole world.
Ankh-Morpork. I think it really nails (in hyperbolic Pratchett fashion) what it’s like to live in a city (or a society) with tons of other people all crammed together having to negotiate what life will be like.
“It was the usual Ankh-Morpork mob in times of crisis; half of them were here to complain, a quarter of them were here to watch the other half, and the remainder were here to rob, importune or sell hot dogs to the rest.”