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2. Diet Coke with Lime
3. So the first and only Kubrick film that I thought of was The Shining (which I've read wasn't one of King's favorites) but then I figured I better check for sure...I liked Full Metal Jacket (Vincent D'Onofrio!) but overall still The Shining.
1. Favorite childhood book?
2. Does your spouse/significant other read also?
3. Least favorite author?

A2- Nope not a reader at all.
A3- Nicholas Sparks, don't enjoy his books at all and you know one of the main characters is going to die at the end( so why bother).
Q1-Is there a book you have read multiple times?
Q2- Favorite author?
Q3- Do you have any pets?

A2: I'm really into Susanna Kearsley and Carlos Ruiz Zafón.
A3: I have 2 cats and one pitbull who thinks she's a lap dog and likes to be carried everywhere.
Q1: Coffee shop or coffee at home?
Q2: Have you ever given yourself a piercing?
Q3: What's the worst thing you've ever done to your hair?

A2. Given myself one? No.
A3. I tried to use a barrel brush in it. My hair is super thick, so it got stuck and I had to cut all my hair off to get the brush out. It was forever ago.
Q1. One song you can't stand?
Q2. Would you rather have chinchillas or cockatiels?
Q3. What country do you live in?

A2. Chinchillas but birds are cool too. I just prefer fluffier hairy animals.
A3. America!
Q1. Wut country do u live in?
Q2. What was/is ur favorite subject in school?
Q3. Do u ever reread any books?

A1. Play
A2. Much Ado About Nothing
A3. Alfred Lord Tennyson
Answers to Lauren (#475)
A1. USA
A2. English
A3. All the time
Q1. What turns you on to a book?
Q2. Most disappointing movie this year?
Q3. What other decade would you have liked to live in?

A2. The man of steel ..I like to think of superman as huge punch out the sun fun. But I got a Batman lite with he oh so introspective self.
A3. 1890 so much was changing.
Q1. What is the strangest book you have ever read?
Q2. Stephen Colbert or Jon Stewart?
Q3. What book have you re read the most?


A2: Colbert
A3: Pride and Prejudice
Q1: What is your favorite quote?
Q2: Reality TV, love or hate?
Q3: Scariest place you've ever been?

A2: Haaaaaaate. It's not reality, its not "actul-ality." It's stupidity. And its annoying as hell.
A3: The Mansfield Reformatory during Halloween.
Q1: How long can you go without a cell phone?
Q2: Has shyness ever kept you from taking a great opportunity?
Q3: What was your first date like?

A2: Love it!
A3: My granma's house :p
Q1: Worst book you've ever read?
Q2: If today is the last day of your life, what would you do?
Q3: beauty or money? Why?

A2. Oh I have ALOT! David Boreanaz, James Marsden, Patrick Dempsey,and so many more.
A3. My mom
Q1. Do u drive? If so wut kind of car?
Q2. Fav Tv show?
Q3. How many books u read a month roughly?

2. game of thrones, how i met your mother, dexter, suits
3. depends on the number of pages and how interesting it is. i would say on average 2 books.
Q1. role model?
Q2. fav dessert?
Q3. fav movie genre?

A1. Well I guess my whole life if I had to. Now as to how often do I check my cell phone? about every few moments.
A2. Not really I can talk to anyone about anything and people seem to like me for some reason but I am sure my anti social side has made me miss more then one social event which might have changed my life.
A3. I was way over dressed, but she gave me a second chance so I guess it could not have been that bad.
Answer to Prashamsa message 483
A1. Stephen Colbert =P No lets see...umm Jon Stwart
A2. That way to hard but I generally love anything that is chocolate base ... yummm chocolate.
A3. Drama for the most part but film noir for those nights I want something darker
Q1. What is your guilty pleasure show. One you watch but feel bad to admit.
Q2 Have you every lied about reading a book when you only watched the move?
Q3 Xbox one or Playstation 4

2. no.
3. idk. PS4 maybe
Q1. Do you know about the birthplace of Lord Buddha?
Q2. country you would like to live in?
Q3. sth you are great are cooking?

2. United Kingdom
3. I don't cook
Q1. Your fav author? Y?
Q2. If you are given a chance to live in someone else's body, who would it be? Y?
Q3. Your fav actress/actor? Y?

Id live in the body of a man, any man.... just to see what life is like for them
Fave Actress: Natalie Portman, Fave Actor: Johnny Depp
Q1. how many siblings do you have?
Q2. are you a high school graduate?
Q3. do you prefer books to stay books or do you like when they are remade into movies?

A2. Yes
A3. I prefer books to stay books. Some movie adaptations just don't meet my expectations and it tends to differ from the real happenings in the book.
Q1. Ebooks or real books?
Q2. What genres do you enjoy?
Q3. What's your favorite book? y?

A2 fantasy, classics, contemporary, anything interesting and engaging
A3 impossible to choose
Q1 What's the answer to life, universe and everything?
Q2 No really, what's the answer?
Q3 What makes you happy?

A2 believing that we actually exist and this is no fantasy
A3 being with the people i love and care about no matter how short the time spent
Q1 best quote from your favourite movie
Q2 best quote from your favourite song
Q3 best quote from your favourite book

Rick: Who are you really, and what were you before? What did you do and what did you think, huh?
Ilsa: We said no questions.
Rick: ...Here's looking at you, kid. Casablanca (1942)
A2 that too hard so here the lyrci from song I am listing to
but then what kind of scale
compares the weight of two beauties
the gravity of duties
or the ground speed of joy?
tell me what kind of gauge
can quantify elation?
what kind of equation
could i possibly employ?
and you'll never know, dear
just how much i loved you
you probably think this was
just my big excuse
but i stand committed
to a love that came before you
and the fact that i adore you
is just one of my truths
Ani Difranco School Night
A3 last one I recall. This favorite stuff is nonsense that changes from moment to moment
There are times—months later, years later, a decade later even—that it strikes Lottie how very odd it is to be abandoned by language, how the future demands what should have been asked in the past, how words can escape us with such ease, and we are left, then, only with the pursuit. TransAtlantic
Q1. When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?
Q2. What are some things that make you really happy?
Q3 If you were a type of animal, what would you be

A2. reading books, spending time with family, hearing from people, and having me time
A3. a lynx
Q1.if you could live in any book, which book would you choose? Why?
Q2. What is your favorite game?
Q3. if you could grant any wish for a terminally ill child, what would it be?

A2. I have many. Anything I play w friends. They choose cause its all fun.
A3. Hmmm good question....that they would get a week of being completely healthy. They get 3 wishes of anything they want. Hmmm idk
Q1. Peeta or Gale?
Q2. Fav movie genre? (Horror, comedy, drama, scifi...etc)
Q3. Do u have any phobias?

A2. Dystopia
A3. Yesss so many phobias....spiders lizards frogs cockroaches rats etc
Q1. Which book did you have high hopes from but it totally let you down?
Q2. Are you a morning person or night person?
Q3. If you had 5 million bucks what would you do with it?

i love all of your answers. i really do enjoy most everyone's answers in this forum. it's interesting what ppl ask and answer

A1.
A2. I'm totally a morning person
A3. put some in my roth ira. some i would give to breast cancer research so they can improve research into better medicines. some i would of course go shopping with. i would also buy a car and the rest i would save

A1) Under the Dome by Stephen King (same goes for the tv show)
A2) Night person, except on Sundays
A3) Ten percent to church. Pay off my bills. Take care of my family and friends. Get a nice house and car. The rest goes towards being a full time author for the rest of my life.
Q1) Are you an adventurous reader or do you prefer to stay with your favorites?
Q2) Is Peter Jackson a genius or the destroyer of Middle Earth?
Q3) Favorite poem?

Colleen wrote: "and to answer Payal's questions:
A1.
A2. I'm totally a morning person
A3. put some in my roth ira. some i would give to breast cancer research so they can improve research into better medicines...."
Thanks you!!!! Me too...its very cool and interesting reading ppls answers. I agree w u.

A2. Hmmm not sure cause I don't follow him. Idk enough to say.
A3. There's many. Poe is pretty good.
Q1. Singing or dancing?
Q2. Do u want kids one day?
Q3. Facebook or goodreads?

A2. Yeah, in the distant future, like 5-7 years from now.
A3. Hmmm. That's a tough one. I think I'd go with Facebook...because not all my friends read books so I can't really communicate with them here. And FB has everything(almost).
Q1. What was the first book you've read?
Q2. What was the craziest thing you've done?
Q3. If you were to write a novel, how would you end it? Happy or Sad or Cliffhanger-ish?

A2. Tried to run away from home. My home is ontop of a mountain so I had to go down some hills, but later went back up, thinking twice about it.
A3.I'm already thinking of writing one, and the first books is gonna be a part of a series, so, Cliffhanger-ish.
Q1. What's the funniest book you've ever read?
Q2. What's most heart-racing book you've ever read?
Q3. What do you think is the best book ever that deserve an award?

A1) Under the Dome by Stephen King (same goes for the tv show)
A2) Night person, except on Sundays
A3) Ten percent to church. ..."
oops i totally forgot to ask any questions. i guess i had a blonde moment

A1. Shit My Dad Says
A2. that is a hard one. all of the books i read are heart-racing for me at least.
A3. any of the house of night books
Q1. If you could interview any author, who would it be?
Q2. horror or fantasy?
Q3. werewolves or vampires?

2) Fantasy...
3)umm...personally hybrids. but umm..Vampire.
Questions:
1) What's your favorite place to get your books from?
2)Do you read poetry?
3) Have you ever tried to read something outside of your comfort zone?

A1. Bookstore, like Kinokuniya. Or The Big Bad Wolf Sales.
A2. I like reading limericks and doing one on my own. I suppose I like reading some funny poetry or descriptive ones.
A3. Yep

I guess I will also answer Rabia question
A2. Several quaint books shop around here. But I like going to my Local Library book sale as most of those there seem really excited about getting books on the cheep. (I am one of those people)
A2. Yes. Not as much I read books but I do enjoy being lost in a good poem
Check out this video by my current favorite(it is quite sad and moving)
To this Day Shane Koyczan
A3. This whole year for me has been trying new stuff. Classic, YA, Nonfiction, Historical fiction, Dystopian, horror.. Yeah it been great.
Q1. If you could have lunch with a favorite author (living or dead)who?
Q2.If you could try out any job for a day, what would you like to try?
Q3.If you knew you would die tomorrow, would you feel cheated today?

2. pilot
3. not really, i could enjoy today.
Q1. if you could eat only one thing for the rest of your life, what would you choose?
Q2. somebody you would want with you in an deserted island
Q3. book character whose life you would like to lead

I guess I will also answer Rabia question
A2. Several quaint books shop around here. But I like going to my Local Library book sale as most of those there ..."
Hehe! Guess I got too excited and forgot the questions also was kind of out of time while answering the questions. Sorry!

1- I would choose Pizza ( although i am sure it wouldn't sound that great after eating for a few days xD , eating one thing for the rest of ur life is just horrible ... )
2- i would wonna be with my crush xD *stupid I know *
3- Tris from Divergent
okey here is my questions
1- what is ur favorite character of all time
2- name a book u read that u think everyone in the world should read
3- what do u think requires more creativity ( fiction novels or realistic novels ) ?

2. To Kill a Mockingbird
3. Fiction novels
Q1. Are you in favor of homosexual marriage?
Q2. What so special about your country?
Q3. Have you ever seen someone naked by accident?

2. Nepal has both natural and historical places to roam around, a perfect example of it would be how we have the highest mountain peak Mt. Everest and is the birthplace of Lord Buddha.
3. not really
Q1. how do you think girls ought to handle girl teasing (if they get teased)?
Q2. food your day is incomplete without?
Q3. somebody you would trade your life with?

A2: lemon. I have to drink something with lemon juic in it in the morning or i cant get through the day.
A3: i am happy with my life, but it i had to chose a character from a book or TV series. Like Clary Fray, Hermoine, Rose Hathaway, Sarah Walker (Chuck) lydia Martin or Alison Argent (Teen Wolf), ect . They seem like they have very interesting and exciteing lives. OOOHH! Maybe mike Ross from suits because he can remember everything. That would be amazing.

Q2 whose tour favourite book:series character?
Q3 hottest actor?

A2: listening to music/singing
A3: (thing or person?) um...my favorite pair of shoes that no longer fit me and my cousin who is away at college
Q1: Favorite super hero?
Q2: One word to describe you?
Q3: One celebrity you extremely dislike? why?

A2. Running
A3. The latest character I'm either reading about or writing about
Q1. Favorite Movie?
Q2. A character from literature you want to meet?
Q3. Favorite color? and what does it bring to mind? (That may be 4 questions)

A2: Write
A3: My daughter
Q1: Fave vacation spot?
Q2: Food you hate?
Q3: Biggest fear?

(Katherine Questions)
A1:Fried Green Tomatoes
A2: Kit from The Witch of Blackbird Pond
A3: Yellow because it reminds me of my favorite flower, yellow tulips.
(Carla's Questions)
A1: Anywhere there is a fun theme park.
A2: Green peas. Apparently I didn't even like them as a baby.
A3: Most people may not understand this one because I'm an actress, but I hate public speaking. I can do it but it makes me so nervous.
Q1: Favorite book/movie adaptation?
Q2: What is your funniest habit/quirk?
Q3: Are you a slow or fast reader (how many books can you read in a year?
Sorry, Q3 is technically two questions.

A2. At my desks in school I always have to push my chair back and then pull it in three times before I'm comfortable.
A3. I'm a pretty fast reader. My goal for this year is 100, but I have school so not a lot of time to read. On a year where I had no school whatsoever, then probably a lot more than my 100 goal.
Q1. Do you have what people would consider an "unusual" pet?
Q2. Would you sell your sibling for a lifetime supply of free books?
Q3. What is your least favorite food?
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2. I watch A LOT of television. Will go with my current favs - Breaking Bad, Walking dead and Orphan Black.
3. A solar powered Kindle, a wi-fi connection and Stephen Colbert.(Yeah, I am weird like that)
1. Tattoos or no tattoos?
2. Diet or regular Coke?
3. Favorite Stanley Kubrick film?