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1) I would have Fyodor Dostoyevsky write my life story, because he is probably one of the best authors who ever lived. The complexity, prose, vokabulary and the sheer writing skills of his are unmatched. Over a century after he died his books are still captivating.I wish i could speak russian so i could read his books in their original language.
2) It depends on what i am supposed to become famous in. If i were to become a famous artist of any kind, then i would take the opportunity. But i wouldn't want to be famous for something i am not proud of, just to be famous.
3) I liked the Thomas Covenant books, i didn't love them but i liked them. Alot of people hate them because of a certain scene, but i thought they were good books at the time i read them.
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1) Your favorite book that is not Fantasy or Scifi or any of their subgenres?
2)If you were to become an author what kind of books would you write? What genre?
3)What is your favorite hobby besides reading books?
1. Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl2. It kept on changing for me. It's a split between Dark Fiction and YA Fantasy, because I've always like books that portray the dark and complex side of psychology, and enjoy the whimsical fun children's fantasy books like the Harry Potter series.
3. Anything to do with art and creating, working with my hands, drawing, painting, fibers, ceramics, book making, etc., etc.
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If you were to make a book by hand:
1. How would you decorate or illustrate the cover?
2. What would it be about?
3. Who would you give it to?
1. I would illustrate the cover with a collage of pictures and words.2. Romantic poems
3. The person who would most appreciate it.
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1. What was the name of your childhood pet and what kind of animal was it?
2. Elvis or The Beatles?
3. What facet of your personality do feel is the most misunderstood?
1. first was Corky he was a Boston Terrier and not long after was Priscilla (named by my dad). A mixed breed Collie, she was killed young.2. Elvis
3. I tend to be frank, to some I'm sure I seem a bit...blunt.
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1. Favorite all time fiction book, any genre.
2. Favorite hobby or interest other than reading.
3. The career or calling you believe you missed. In other words, what do you think/feel you should have been or should be doing if you could go back and make the decisions knowing what you do now?
1. Favorite all time fiction book, any genre.It has to be Pride and Prejudice. I first read it when I was in middle school and I completely fell in love with Lizzy and Mr. Darcy both. I believed I was Lizzy for so long. Still waiting on my own Mr. Darcy haha
2. Favorite hobby or interest other than reading.
I love hiking with my dogs. I have a golden retriever and a toy poodle and they are just so much fun to go places with. We have a lot of parks near my house so when the weathers good I'm always hiking on trails with my pups.
3. The career or calling you believe you missed. In other words, what do you think/feel you should have been or should be doing if you could go back and make the decisions knowing what you do now?
I wish I had pursued singing as a career. I have a pretty decent voice and I could have gone to New York when I was younger and tried out for shows but I convinced my mom not to. Who knows if I would have gotten anything - there are a billion talented people out there. But I do regret that decision. If I had had more ambition maybe I'd be on stage somewhere right now.
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1) What is your favorite sports team and why? (If you don't like sports tell me why you don't :) )
2) Who is the celebrity that you absolutely can't stand?
3) What would it take for you to give up reading novels forever? Money? Fame? Power? A yacht in the Mediterranean? World Peace? A Segway? Be specific.
1. Not a team, but my favorite sport is Ultimate Fighting. I used to be into the martial arts. I started off studying the traditional Korean martial art style called Kuk Sool Won, then moved on to Muay Thai boxing because it is more practical until I decided to become a mom. I like watching UFC fighting because it combines all the various ways to defeat an opponent, martial arts, boxing and wrestling. My favorite UFC fighter is Randy Couture.2. Paris Hilton, if you can call her a celebrity. I can't stand empty celebrities with no entertainment value and no talent. And I hate spoiled rich people who add no value to the world, but who has so much, and takes up more air and resources than others. The business my stbx and I owned was upscale decorative. Our clients would include really wealthy people who would live like 2 people in a huge plot of land and mansion, with nothing better to do than obsess about how they're going to decorate their mansions with the finest stuff they can find, using the most expensive decorators. There is no justice in the world.
3. A list:
-A dystopia where there are no books and writers because they are banned. I don't think I would be one of those people who would be brave enough to go underground with a book if they are dangerous to my life and family.
-Brain damage where I can't comprehend a paragraph, and it stresses me out to try.
-I'm incarcerated and not allowed books or communicating with anybody who would be able to sneak a book in whatever format. Because you know I would try to figure out how to read a book via computer, movies, toilet paper, etc., as long as I'm not severely punished for it. I stop if the consequence is too severe.
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1. Anything happened to you that seems more than an accident, like cosmic magic?
2. What is the most magical-feeling event that happened to you?
3. Anybody who came into your life who you seemed destined to meet for some reason?
1. Mmhmm. I firmly believe that I've survived events that should have been fatal due solely to divine intervention.
2. Lame as it makes me, the first time I kissed my first love was beyond all description. Magic comes as close to describing it as anything I suppose.
3. I think there's been a few people who I was destined to meet. I like to think that certain people are supposed to be in your life for certain moments. It doesn't mean they'll always be there but they each serve their purpose at a particular point.
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1. If you were hosting a get together for Fantasy Aficianado members, what would you plan and where would the get together be held?
2. If you could change any one thing about yourself physically, mentally or emotionally, what would it be and why?
3. What's the easiest way to put a big grin on your face?
2. Lame as it makes me, the first time I kissed my first love was beyond all description. Magic comes as close to describing it as anything I suppose.
3. I think there's been a few people who I was destined to meet. I like to think that certain people are supposed to be in your life for certain moments. It doesn't mean they'll always be there but they each serve their purpose at a particular point.
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1. If you were hosting a get together for Fantasy Aficianado members, what would you plan and where would the get together be held?
2. If you could change any one thing about yourself physically, mentally or emotionally, what would it be and why?
3. What's the easiest way to put a big grin on your face?
Grant wrote: "1. Mmhmm. I firmly believe that I've survived events that should have been fatal due solely to divine intervention. 2. Lame as it makes me, the first time I kissed my first love was beyond all..."
1. If you were hosting a get together for Fantasy Aficianado members, what would you plan and where would the get together be held?
Why a midievil picnic with a duel of course!
2. If you could change any one thing about yourself physically, mentally or emotionally, what would it be and why?
I would definitely be able to handle my emotions better
3. What's the easiest way to put a big grin on your face?
One of my foster kids realizing things are stable and I am here for them...the other day one of them gave me a mushy card and I was good for days :)
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Dang -I almost forgot my questions...
1. If you could morf into living the life of a fantasy character, who would you pick and why?
2. If you discovered your own 'sword in the stone' or similar unstoppable weapon, what cause would you take on and why?
3. If there was a single book you could pass out as a mandated read on Fantasy Afficionados, what would it be and why?
1) Talea she's a thief and a gambler, she's also a swordswoman. And to top it off she's Jon-Tom woman. From the Spellsinger books.2) Big overly fat government. Why you ask, because they need to be taken down & made to live like the rest of us little people!
3) That's easy Dragonlance chronicles, because there's so much good VS bad and a very fine line between the two sometimes. Besides the fact that Raistlin is the most bad assed mage ever!
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1) If you could be any princess who would it be & why?
2) Who is your least favorite character & why?
3) What book have you wanted to read in fantasy & just haven't had the time?
1) how is it that I happen upon the princess question?ummm...Perhaps Fiona from Nine Princes in Amber. She's cunning, powerful and...well-built. If I have to be a woman, I can at least be well-built.
2) Mr. Norrell. What a miser, all that knowledge, all for himself. Stingy, good for nothing,...
3) Some series finishers of Tad Williams. Unfortunately any of these would require that I re-read Tad Williams books, each of which are epics in their own right...ughhh. I cannot tolerate re-reading.
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1) invisibility or super speed?
2) what piece of writing are you most ashamed/embarrassed of reading?
3) What piece of writing are you most proud of reading?
Ha! great questions below.
*You have an inner princess, that's why. You know you always wanted to be a princess. Time to grab that tiara.*1. Super speed. I never have enough time in the day to finish anything.
2. I found a package of classic XXX erotica in eBooks online. Some of them dealt with incest. That was disturbing to peruse through.
3. I'm proud of most of them, but it would have to be the Time Life art series. It was my earliest source of comprehensive art history.
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1. Would you rather live with an extremely neat and organized person, or a slob?
2. Have you ever hung around a forum because you like the people and not necessarily the genre of books.
3. Is your driving style similar to your sexual style?
1) Neat and organized, but I doubt they'd live with me.2) No, I hang around because I like the people and the genre.
3) Totally the opposite. I prefer to drive faster than slower, and I can get impatient at times.
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1) Country or city life?
2) Do you prefer to swim in a pool or in a lake/river/ocean?
3) Have you ever scuba dived or do you want to?
Bill wrote: "1)1) Country or city life?2) Do you prefer to swim in a pool or in a lake/river/ocean?
3) Have you ever scuba dived or do you want to?
1. Country life all the way-I actually live right in between two Indian reservations...which is its own kind of odd.
As a young person I preferred the city and lived in Minneapolis.
2) Lake-Again, it's all because of living in Minnesota
3) I have gone snorkeling a lot but not scuba diving
Okay-my questions:
1. What fantasy character is closest to your own personality?
2. If you were able to choose a months read and get everyone to read it, what book would you want to pick?
3. Do you beleive cannibalism is wrong or do cannibals have special dietary rights ? ;)
1. What fantasy character is closest to your own personality? 2. If you were able to choose a months read and get everyone to read it, what book would you want to pick?
3. Do you beleive cannibalism is wrong or do cannibals have special dietary rights ? ;)
1. I’m not sure, I would maybe say Elspeth from the Mage Winds trilogy. She’s tough but sweet and has a sharp tongue. O-o
2. I would say Kushiel's Dart, The Riddlemaster of Hed, or one of a number of books by Andre Norton (Maybe start them off with Witch World?). They are all series that I think people could benefit from reading but aren’t your typical fantasy novels.
3. I think eating the flesh of your own species is a good way to get mad cow disease. I’m just saying! Gross.
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1. Is there a book that you are shocked that other people haven’t read? (LotR doesn’t count, lol).
2. What fantasy character do you feel is TSTL?
3. Do you write and can we see any of your work? IF that’s not applicable, if you were to write a book, what would be the well known tropes you would avoid?
*TSTL = Too Stupid To Live, typically used in description of really stupid romance heroines.
1. The "Gormenghast" books, by Mervyn Peake. Just as influential a novel as Conan the Barbarian or Lord of the Rings, but I never seem to meet people who have heard of it, let alone have actually read a book or two from the series.
2. I think a better question would be "which fantasy characters do I feel aren't TSTL?" It seems to the be genre norm to have main characters who are slightly brain damaged.
3. I do, and I have a short story on my Goodreads profile.
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1. Have you ever played croquet?
2. If you had to read a fantasy book about either cooking or mathematics, both presuming that the techniques/formulas are different from Earth's, which would you choose and why?
3. Would you rather live in taiga or the savannah?
2. I think a better question would be "which fantasy characters do I feel aren't TSTL?" It seems to the be genre norm to have main characters who are slightly brain damaged.
3. I do, and I have a short story on my Goodreads profile.
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1. Have you ever played croquet?
2. If you had to read a fantasy book about either cooking or mathematics, both presuming that the techniques/formulas are different from Earth's, which would you choose and why?
3. Would you rather live in taiga or the savannah?
1) nope, never tried croquet2) Math! I love math and physics. Plus, new math would still be useful, and cooking from another planet, well, we wouldn't have the ingredients!
3) Hard choice. But since I already dwell in Beautiful British Columbia, I'd have to say Taiga!
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1. So many books haven't gotten the audience they deserve, which unknown book would you recommend to us?
2. Fairies or Elves?
3. Your favorite place to get comfy with a book?
1. Tomato Rhapsody - it's about how the tomato came to Italy, and how Jews were treated in Renaissance Italy, and about food and love and farming. It's funny and moving and wonderful, and hasn't gotten a fair shake.2. Elves. Not usually so flighty.
3. Just about anywhere. Usually curled up in bed.
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1. What book would you most want to see made into a movie?
2. Do you prefer a fantasy set on earth or in another world altogether?
3. If you could meet one fantasy character, who would it be?
1. One of the Belgariad series...with Meryl Streep as Polgara.2. I like stories from earth...in all its varied forms...more relatable and easier to imagine yourself there.
3. Cazaril from Bujold's book, Curse of Chalion. He really needs a friend.
1. Which book do you wish HAD NOT been made into a movie?
2. What kind of music do you listen to (if any) while you read?
3. Favorite reading snack?
1. The English Patient2. Usually none, but occasionally classical with no words
3. Cereal straight out of the box
1. In which voice do you prefer books?
3. If you could break the nose of one vain fantasy character, who would it be?
4. Do you prefer to read earlier in the day or later in the day?
1. 1st/Omnipresent the majority. Third person is ok if it's well written.2. Bella from Twilight. Don't know if that would be classified into fantasy but she's the first person I've ever wanted to maim horribly in a book
3. Whenever there is free time, though it is good to unwind from a long day with a good book.
1. What are you opinions on hats?
2. If you could have one mythical creature as a pet what would it be?
3. What fictional/nonfictional type of food that you have read about in a book do you wish you could eat?
1. I wish I could wear them and not look goofy; I love a nice fedora.2. I want a fire lizard. A lot.
3. Either Pern's klah or Tolkien's ent-draught. Maybe lembas.
1. If you could retire in any fantasy setting, where would you spend your social security (as applicable)?
2. What, if anything, do you read besides fantasy?
3. What fictional book or work of art would you love to get your hands on?
I collect fedora's and wear them on a weekly basis :) I really want an Indiana Jones leather fedora someday tho!
The place that made them for the movie also sells them indivually these days. I saw them on a show on History channel sometime last year. I need to look them up and hook us both up ;)
The Dread Pirate Grant wrote: "I collect fedora's and wear them on a weekly basis :) I really want an Indiana Jones leather fedora someday tho!"I totally read that as "feather fedora" and was worried about you.
*grins* lol...you can't see me in a pimp hat, Denae? ;)
Oooo. I might look foolish, but I'd feel cool. See, now, I read "Indiana Jones leather" and the next word I expected was "bullwhip".
Let the digression to the digression begin.
I always liked hats, but never looked that good in them, but then I digress....
I got a really cool pananma hat for my birthday! I look SO cool in it - which is great cause I don't normally wear hats or look good in them.
The Dread Pirate Grant wrote: "The place that made them for the movie also sells them indivually these days. I saw them on a show on History channel sometime last year. I need to look them up and hook us both up ;)"Got a link for this, tDPG? I like Indie's hat too. I never wore hats until about a couple of years ago when I decided I wanted to avoid skin cancers and keep my ear-tips. I have a bunch from a bevy of ball-caps to my favorite an outback hat made of kangaroo leather.
I would like a fedora that doesn't make me look like a G-man :)
I've always wanted to wear a fedora, but I look stupid in them.If anything, I wear my Toronto Blue Jays baseball cap.
What happened to the questions? I was going to answer them, but I don't see any above me.
K.C. wrote: "What happened to the questions? I was going to answer them, but I don't see any above me."They're pre-derailment: message 73 (mine, in fact).
K.C. wrote: "What happened to the questions? I was going to answer them, but I don't see any above me."Major trainwreck here, KC. Here, I've pasted them below:
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1. I wish I could wear them and not look goofy; I love a nice fedora.
2. I want a fire lizard. A lot.
3. Either Pern's klah or Tolkien's ent-draught. Maybe lembas.
1. If you could retire in any fantasy setting, where would you spend your social security (as applicable)?
2. What, if anything, do you read besides fantasy?
3. What fictional book or work of art would you love to get your hands on?
1. Somewhere non-dystopian with plumbing and non-killer computers.2. A little bit of everything, although I tend more towards "highbrow," sci-fi, mysteries, general fiction and some utterly silly older romances.
3. The films from The Book of Illusions. I also really wish Jodorowsky's adaptation of Dune was made.
1. What setting do you prefer for reading?
2. What was your favorite book as a child?
3. What fictional character do you hate most?
1. I prefer the couch followed by a comfy recliner.2. The Song of the Lioness Quartet by Tamora Pierce and The Blue Sword by Robin McKinnley. Oh! And The Kadin by Beatrice Smalls (I got it from my mom's library.)
3. Does cartoons count? Then it's Capt. Azien from Bleach.
1. If there is one book ending that you could re-write, which one would it be and how would you change the ending?
2. When I'm reading a good book, I like to____________.
3. Outside of reading, what is your favorite activity?
1. I would have to re-write "The Name of the Wind" and it would entail making sense of the plot derivations that happen in the last 1/3 of the book. As well, I would incorporate some kind of hook/suspense to the end to make me want to buy the 2nd one.2. Sip on a cup of coffee or a cold glass of pop.
3. Outside of reading, my favourite activity is to play computer games.
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1. If you could meet any author and ask them a question, who would it be and what would you ask him/her?
2. Which movie adaptation of a book do you like the best?
3. Do you prefer silence or background noise, when reading?
1. I would meet Robert Jordan and ask him what possessed him to hyper focus so often on minor characters in The Wheel of Time
2. The Princess Bride! Hands down (tho I might be a tad bit biased)
3. Silence is key to in depth reading for me.
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1. Do you believe in any real life supernatural creatures? If so, which ones?
2. Have you ever had an experience that you couldn't easily explain? Details if so!
3. Whats your favorite urban myth?
2. The Princess Bride! Hands down (tho I might be a tad bit biased)
3. Silence is key to in depth reading for me.
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1. Do you believe in any real life supernatural creatures? If so, which ones?
2. Have you ever had an experience that you couldn't easily explain? Details if so!
3. Whats your favorite urban myth?
1. Werewolves: like those accounts of children raised by wolves and the genetic abnormality which allows thick hair to grow all over the body.2. Yes: I've seen a ghost in the house I lived in as a child. I saw it aged about 7/8 but didn't tell my mum until I was about 15. Mum said my sister described seeing exactly the same thing! It was more a deep shadow of a figure surrounded by slightly lighter air than sheet-over-head variety.
3. Following the theme... The story of the woman coming home and feeling like there is someone in the house. She rings her mum who says "leave now... don't do anything... don't even hang up the phone". When she reaches here mum's house her mum is waiting at the door, chalk-white. "After you left and I heard the door click shut, someone hung up the phone!"
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1. If you could time travel, what event/conversation/meeting would you wish to be a fly on the wall for?
2. Which actor has played the best vampire?
3. Set the scene for your ideal place to read a book.
1. I would have liked to see how Stonehenge was built and why...so more like a fly in the rock.2. Alexander Skarsgård who plays Eric in True Blood. Yummy.
3. I love to read in the library surrounded by books. Now, if I could only get rid of all the other people, dim the lighting, and have some comfy cushions on the floor...that's heaven.
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1. You've inherited a time machine, but it will only work one time. Would you travel to another time to live, or stay when/where you are?
2. If you were in a fantasy world, what race/species would you be?
3. It's the zombie apocalypse...do you hide in the shadows and live by your wits, or do you start a resistance and kick zombie butt? Or...are you a zombie?
1. I would travel to 4th century Britain and do my very best to take over the world. :)
2. Hmm...well besides human, I'd go half-elf. They seem to get the best characteristics of both races. Longer life, better reflexes, human strength, elven grace and night vision. Seems like a winner :)
3. Ha. I would Own during the zombie apocalypse. I would build a kingdom built on zombie corpses. Well not literally. That would smell Really bad :)
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1. Who is the most kickbutt fantasy character you've ever read and why?
2. What's your biggest pet peeve?
3. What's your favorite song ever and why?
2. Hmm...well besides human, I'd go half-elf. They seem to get the best characteristics of both races. Longer life, better reflexes, human strength, elven grace and night vision. Seems like a winner :)
3. Ha. I would Own during the zombie apocalypse. I would build a kingdom built on zombie corpses. Well not literally. That would smell Really bad :)
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1. Who is the most kickbutt fantasy character you've ever read and why?
2. What's your biggest pet peeve?
3. What's your favorite song ever and why?
1. Drawing a blank right now, so I'll just go with Danae from the myths because of my name. Lame answer, I know.2. Spelling & grammar errors in official/business documents
3. "Los" by The Czars is the first one that popped into my mind, despite it being one of many, because it always brings a lump to my throat, no matter how many times I hear it. K.D. Lang's cover of "Hallelujah" and almost every version of "The Song to the Siren" do the same.
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1. What is your favorite snack when curled up on the couch with a good book/movie?
2. If you could pet or play with any animal, without fear of harm, what would it be?
3. In one word, what makes you most nostalgic for your childhood?
1) Chikkinbiscuit!
2) Lion. King of the Jungle. I'd call him Simba and sing hakuna matata with him.
3) Pez.
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1) If you could meet any FAer for a day of fun, who would it be and why?
2) If you could bring to life any character from a fantasy novel, which one and why?
3) If you could go back to when you were 15 and give your younger self one piece of knowledge, what would it be?
2) Lion. King of the Jungle. I'd call him Simba and sing hakuna matata with him.
3) Pez.
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1) If you could meet any FAer for a day of fun, who would it be and why?
2) If you could bring to life any character from a fantasy novel, which one and why?
3) If you could go back to when you were 15 and give your younger self one piece of knowledge, what would it be?
Ala wrote: "1) Chikkinbiscuit!"OMG, I love those...
1. It's hard to say because I haven't been a member for long...but any one of the friendly/snarky/sarcastic people here. Someone like Ala, The Dread Pirate Grant, Mrs. J, Regina, or Tracey…that’s the best I can do. :)2. Kvothe! Why? You want to know why?
Really?
I want to have his babies!!!!
3. Stop being so damn nice all the time!
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1. If you could take one invention back to the Middle Ages, what would it be and why?
2. What does you dream home look like?
3. If you were a fantasy character, what would be the plot in your story?
Lol...we can totally hang, Amanda. You get points for knowing who Laurel and Hardy are :)
1. Air conditioning. Cause holy shit life in a castle without air conditioning?! No, ma'am. Needless to say it would have to be some kind of self powering perpetually re-cooling air conditioner :)
2. High on a mountain, highly defendible position, natural source of water nearby. Built into the side of the mountain seems like a plus...lots of marble, three foot concrete front. Lots of vaulted ceilings inside, the most amazering library ever and a kitchen with a walkin freezer and no less than two viking ranges. Heaven :)
3. Vengeance. Revenge stories suit me best.
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1. What's the coolest thing you've seen in real life?
2. If you could change one thing about your physical looks, what would you change and why?
3. What would be your ideal vacation?
1. Air conditioning. Cause holy shit life in a castle without air conditioning?! No, ma'am. Needless to say it would have to be some kind of self powering perpetually re-cooling air conditioner :)
2. High on a mountain, highly defendible position, natural source of water nearby. Built into the side of the mountain seems like a plus...lots of marble, three foot concrete front. Lots of vaulted ceilings inside, the most amazering library ever and a kitchen with a walkin freezer and no less than two viking ranges. Heaven :)
3. Vengeance. Revenge stories suit me best.
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1. What's the coolest thing you've seen in real life?
2. If you could change one thing about your physical looks, what would you change and why?
3. What would be your ideal vacation?
☠The Dread Pirate Grant☠ wrote: "Lol...we can totally hang, Amanda. You get points for knowing who Laurel and Hardy are :)"Lol thanks :) I grew up on old movies. My favorites were always Laurel and Hardy and Charlie Chaplin.
I'm going to be selfish and answer your questions, since no one else has jumped in.
1. Whales feeding in the wild. They'd sometimes have half their bodies out of the water and you could see the barnacles on their heads.
2. My feet. I just hate the way they look.
3. A month in the Irish countryside...horseback riding, singing and drinking in pubs, that kind of thing.
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1. What is your all-time favorite movie?
2. What is your biggest pet peeve?
3. If you could trade places with any character in any book, who would it be?
My dad was 61 when I was born. I grew up on old movies :) And you're not being selfish by answering...answer all ya like! This place kinda slows down on the weekends anyways
1. Forrest Gump. He's my hero :)
2. I haaaaaaaate when someone repeats themselves to me. It's so condescending and absolutely makes my blood boil. Half the fist fights I've gotten into in my life have stemmed from that alone.
3. Dresden. I still get to live with all the joys of modern luxury (well non electronic ones) but I get magic to boot. Sweeeeeet.
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1. What's your favorite comfort food?
2. What's your favorite personal moment of the current year?
3. Do you have any major goals in life? If so what?
1. Forrest Gump. He's my hero :)
2. I haaaaaaaate when someone repeats themselves to me. It's so condescending and absolutely makes my blood boil. Half the fist fights I've gotten into in my life have stemmed from that alone.
3. Dresden. I still get to live with all the joys of modern luxury (well non electronic ones) but I get magic to boot. Sweeeeeet.
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1. What's your favorite comfort food?
2. What's your favorite personal moment of the current year?
3. Do you have any major goals in life? If so what?
Psst, Grant~ Dresden doesn't have a-c, does he? That problem with magic and technology?? ;)
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The Next Best Bookclub. There are so many members so I just enjoy reading through posts and occasionally joining in on a game.
2. Which forum do you contribute to the most?
Right now, this one :)
3. Which forum are you still a member of that you never look at or contribute to?
There are a couple bc I had stopped coming to forums altogether for a while, mostly bc of health issues and not having a lot of time. Paranormal Romance would probably be the big group that I never go to at all.
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1) If you could get one author to write the story of your life (dead or alive) who would you pick and why?
2) If you had the opportunity to become famous would you take it? Why or why not?
3) Name a book that you absolutely loved, but you feel like everyone else hated it.