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Turtles have an incredibly long life span. The oldest ever recorded, named Tu”i Malila, of Tonga Island, passed away at the grand old age of 188! Wow! <3
Unlike other animals, which usually have two or three color receptors in their eyes, the mantis shrimp has anywhere from 12 to 16! They are ironically worse at differentiating color, but still...as a creative person myself, I’d love to be able to see all those colors!
, Thanks for the lovely gift!
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With a little delay... round 10 is over!
It was a close call, but is the winner... because platypus. prize :
Trivia's winner is (out of 26), who gets The answer was, of course, Eartha Kitt!
The winning jokes : Q. What’s the difference between ignorance and apathy? A. I don’t know and I don’t care. - Q: What did the duck say when she bought lipstick? A: "Put it on my bill." - Husband brings the child home from kindergarten and asks his wife, "He’s been crying the whole way home. Isn’t he sick or something?" "No," replies the wife, "he was just trying to tell you he isn’t our Frankie." - Why did the farmer separate the chickens from his turkeys? Because he suspected Fowl play - What was the last thing that went through the bug’s mind when he hit the windshield? His butt -
ROUND 11 : Forum - What's your favorite book? Why?
Trivia - What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow? Trade Lot
Grab Bags Just offer on one of the trades with a joke (any kind). Trade Lot - Trade Lot - Trade Lot - Trade Lot - Trade Lot You can enter as many trades as you want, as long as you try a different joke each time. The best joke gets the trade. You can recycle last round jokes as long as they didn't win.
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Are ya tryna test us physic questions oof XD My fav book is "no flying in the house" because it make me dream of one supernatural power which is the ability to fly (I remember very obsessed with flying when I was 11-12)
- I've stepped up in the trivia difficulty... or I just wanted to make a joke about the coconut prize. ;)
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I feel like I should answer something cerebral like Anna Karenina or something moral like the Bible or even something popular like the Harry Potter series. However, the truth is my actual favorite book is a children book called The Big Orange Splot. I discovered this book when my oldest daughter was in elementary school and have loved it ever since. It is about a man who moves into a neighborhood where everyone and everything is the same. Look the same, act the same, etc. Then one day a bucket of paint falls on his roof. That bucket of paint changed the entire neighborhood and the people in it. It is well worth the read or watching of the video I linked. And only just over 5 minutes.
, My favorite book is actually a series, and it's got an item in Subeta to reference it. The series is called 'The Lioness Quartet' by Tamora Pierce. I originally started reading it when I was probably 13 or so, and I'm 31 now, but it still brings back the same magical feeling as when I first cracked the books open. It's about this girl, Alanna, who dresses up as a boy to become a knight, while her twin brother goes to learn how to advance his magic. They switched places! Honestly, the whole Tortall set of books is a total trip, bringing multiple story lines together, but the first set of books are really what continue to sing to me. You get completely lost in the story line, wondering what will happen next, and hours go by so quickly.
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- Just my theory: no one actually enjoys the highly cerebral books, they just pretend to. :p
- Yes it's a trick question... Well, I'll accept the scientific answers too. But you guys aren't king material so far!
- Well it promoted gender equality almost 20 years ago, that was pretty far ahead of its time.
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I thought so! Hmmm this needs further investigation on my part!
Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog by John Grogan
This is the first book that has ever made me laugh so hard and cry so much. All in one book!
Going Fishing!!! 🐟
I can't really pick just 1 but I have 2 that I always reread. They are trilogies of course but anyway.
- The 3 Sister Trilogy by Nora Roberts. The first book is called Dance Upon the Air. Its a story about an abused woman who fakes her death to run away and finds out she is a decedent of a witch!
- The Fablehaven Series by Brandon Mull. The first book is called Fablehaven lol easy. Its about a brother and sister team who find out magic is real! They have to stop the forces trying to use magic to take over the world!
I love this trivia question XD;
As for my favourite book... well, my default answer for the past 15 or so years now has been The Tin Drum by Günter Grass but I think I should reread it since I'm starting to forget it and always just answer it out of habit.
I do remember loving the way it was written; I'm still a big fan of unreliable narrators and sort of absurd/surreal story lines. I also liked how the real historical events tied to the protagonist's story but stayed mainly in the background. I'd say it influenced my way of writing more than any other book though at the time I was already switching from writing fiction to writing just school essays.
This is where I should've stopped, but instead chose to stay up past midnight just to ramble about some great books. I'll put it behind a spoiler for those interested
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was also great and a classic well worth reading
Five or so years ago I had this major Discworld phase and I think I read all the ones I could get my hands on. Terry Pratchett had the best sense of humour and his worldbuilding was so on an another level. Small Gods was probably the best single book (nothing beats a well-done satire) but Guards! Guards! was a really close second because the City Guard books were so full of great characters. I was also a big fan of the Librarian's and there was a great book with him but I've forgotten which one it was. Oh, and the one with the wizards playing soccer was fun too
And since I just today finished reading one, I must also mention Nikolai Gogol's work. The Overcoat was good (much love for the way it was narrated) but I think The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich was an even better example of the delightful and funny style Gogol and many other of his contemporaries had. At one point it was bordering on having too many characters for my brain capacity (I'm awful with names) but it was short enough to finish (Glares at Anna Karenina).
Aaaand that reminds me of Jerome K. Jerome. Three Men in a Boat and the equally hilarious sequal Three Men on Wheels. Similar style to Gogol's, I think, but without the hint of darkness.
This is tricky as I have a fair few favourite books despite not being a 'wordy' book reader.
All time: I Kill Giants - Graphic novels/comics are a favourite of mine as it combines the best of writing and drawing as if you are reading a static film. This book surprises me in a way of how comics can be very touching and emotional (I've burst into tears reading this which I wouldn't expect for a comic to do so!) I don't want to say anymore but it's definitely worth reading! Another notable one to mention is Blacksad. A very well made comic!
Novel: To Kill a Mockingbird - So far the only 'wordy' novel I read properly. I read this at school as a session which I usually end up hating but I ended up liking and appreciating the book a lot more. It has a nice message to it. When I give myself the time, I'd like to read more wordy ones.
Children's Books: [Where The Wild Things Are - I loved this book so much as a child and the illustrations are amazing and memorable.
- Thank you very much for the prizes so far!! :)
You gave me the hardest question!!!! I have a favorite AUTHOR, I have a favorite discworld book, I have a favorite less-well-known series. ARGH Gonna do all that.
Favorite Author is Tamora Pierce. Once I was good enough at reading that I started to like it, her books quickly became my favorites and she's still publishing new stuff! I especially love the trickster books and the circle of magic (any book with Briar in it!!!)
Favorite Discworld book, cause Discworld (by the late great Sir Terry Pratchett, GNU) is basically its own genre, would be Monstrous Regiment, cause gender-fuckery as well as being a very good standalone book while still having ties into the world. If you wanna get into Discworld I'd suggest starting with the Vimes/The Watch books, though I'd skip Guards, Guards! And go straight to Men At Arms. Discworld looks complicated to get into but all books DO work as standalone, just some better than others.
Favorite underrated (cause no one knows about it) series is the Leagues and Legends series by E. Jade Lomax, starting with the book Beanstalk, all of which you can get digitally for free on their website. The books are amazing, and I love all the characters and the world-building.
link to where you can get the first book, as well as the author's teaser of it
Jack Farris doesn’t want to save the world, just every person he knows, encounters, or hears of.
It’s a bit of an issue.
S. Grey doesn’t want to save anyone but himself. He wants to know everything and majoring in sagework at the Academy is the best way to do that.
Laney Jones left her home to avoid the constraints there, only to find different barriers holding her back at the Academy. Eager to learn, to excel, to escape, she has far from given up.
Rupert Willington Jons Hammerfeld the Seventh would just like everything to be orderly, thank you very much, but it seems the only way to make monsters and myths (and malicious but mundane men) stop rampaging through his world is to go out and do some hero-ing himself.
They are put together as an unwilling study group, but they become something more.
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My favorite book is Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. It's just so good! It's a 'comedy' about the apocalypse, where an angel and a demon team up to try and stop the end of the world. It's so well written and the story is right up my alley.
Have you seen this thread yet?
Diary of Anne Frank, quite profound and first read it when I was around her age... given to me by my grandmother; one of the rare English books she had.
Ahh took my favorite so I’m going to do my second favorite. :> Picking a favorite book is sooo difficult, but I’d have to pick Fahrenheit 451. The first time I read it I was blown away by it. All of the nuance, the details, and (of course) the resolution at the end really made it one of my favorites. I honestly don’t even know why else I enjoy it...I just do. It’s shaped a lot of how I see the world, really. Every once in a while I’ll pick it back up again, when I feel the need to reread something I love.
I'm sure you could've picked Good Omens too - I'm not very good at explaining just why it's so good. ;)
So many wonderful books, it's really hard to pick a favorite.
I guess the one I tend to re-read the most, outside of How-to-draw books, is Mark Helprin's Winter's Tale. They attempted to destroy the story with an awful movie, but the book is a joy.