Question Of The Day 19 May, 2019

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GOOD MORNING AND HAPPY SUNDAY!

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I love to read and watch movies. Right now I have
too many books that I had reserved from the library and they all came in within 2 days of one another.

What to read first?:headscratch::dunno: Also, I have 4 movies that I
got from the library.

What are some of your favorite books? Do you like
to read the same book again? What is your favorite genre? Same question about movies.

I like all kinds of books but right now I am really into psychological thrillers.

Girl on a Train
Behind Closed Doors
The Widow Next Door
In a Dark dark Wood were all amazing.

Some of my fave movies

The Godfather I and II
The Blair Witch Project
Paranormal Activity I and II
Ordinary People
50s films with Doris Day and Rock Hudson
Platoon
The Deer Hunter

What are yours?
 

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I always have a book on the go. Not into romance, more into thrillers such as Lee Child, Sidney Sheldon, Karen Rose and lots more.
Films, same really. James Patterson books made into films have been good but my favourite films are the older ones such as Zulu, Madame X and Audrey Hepburn and Spencer Tracy films were funny. I remember watching the first Jeepers Creepers film on my own late at night and frightened myself to death.
 

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lol, The original Texas Chainsaw Massacre was my intro to that genre, and lordy!

I definitely re-read books, and I like murder-mysteries quite a bit lately.

Gotta say though I LOVE the Transformers movies and most of the Marvel Comics movies :thumbsup:
 

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Unfortunetly, I've never really had the time or money to read enough books to be able to develop a favorite author or such.

When I was younger, it was easier to get into reading but now, I have 0 motivation.

I'll start and think I'm getting into it but by the 7th page (sometimes sooner), my brain just taps out and stops retaining what I'm reading.
 

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Books:
Romance
Autobiographies & Biographies
Cookbooks

Movies:
Romance (both modern & old classics)
Superhero with romance
Westerns with romance
War movies with romance
True stories
 

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Books
Milan Kundera : "The Unbearable Lightness of Being"
Gabriel García Márquez : "One Hundred Years of Solitude"
Isabel Allende : "The House of the Spirits"

Movies
Marco Tullio Giordana : "La meglio gioventù" ("The best of Youth") XXX
Miloš Forman : "One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest"
David Lynch : "Blue Velvet"
Marcel Camus "Orfeu Negro"
Most movies of François Truffaut and Pedro Almodóvar
Monty Python movies
 
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I love techno-thrillers (Clive Cussler, for example). Favorite authors include Cussler, Stephen King (although he makes me crazy when I think he's hedged on his endings), Douglas Preston/Lincoln Child (Pengergast!). Utopia by Lincoln Child was, quite simply, excellent. And, of course, pretty much any cookbook.

When I was able to keep my books in the living room, sometimes I would walk over to my books and say, "Hmmmmm, OK, you!" pick the book up and start reading. So yes, I've reread and reread my books. I cannot tell you how many times I've read the Outlander series. Or the Stephen King books.

I don't watch a lot of movies. I don't know why, but I really do prefer to read. With a movie, it's all out there and all you do is sit there. With a book, you read it and you can create your own scenarios and such in your mind as you're reading.
 

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i really enjoy reading, but these days i don't find the time to do much reading -- and i don't read when i'm tired, because i'm not able to enjoy it as much.

my favorite genres are historical fiction, history -- especially World War II, murder mysteries, spy/espionage -- both fiction and factual, biographies, and some autobiographies. pretty much the same goes for movies.

particular favorite movies would be John Wayne movies (all of them), documentaries on World War II, Arsenic and Old Lace -- and any movie with Cary Grant in it, Les Diabolique (the Clouzot version, 1955), Rear Window -- i watch this one again and again.

particular favorite books......A Man Called Intrepid by William Stephenson, other than that one i don't think i have particular favorites of books.
 

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Books: Anything by James Patterson, John Grisham, and Stephen King.

Movies: I like horror flicks, especially the original Exorcist, the original Amityville movie, and the Paranormal Activity movies. I also watch some action flicks and comedies. Madea for example cracks me up.
 

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I am not a fan of genre fiction (mystery, romance, etc.) because I find them to be too predictable and it's not often I like to read predictable fiction. There have been some that I have enjoyed like The Kiss Quotient which is a newer romance book but it was well written and not cheesy.

I read a lot of nonfiction too. Most of the topics I like to read are about medical history or microbiology/biology-related. I rarely, if ever, reread books. I read a lot of fanfiction though and that stuff is usually predictable and I reread it many times, so it's weird that it doesn't apply to books for me.

As for movies, some of my favorites are An Affair To Remember, Pillow Talk, The Jerk, Big Fish, numerous romantic comedies, some Hallmark Christmas movies too.
 

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Books: biographies, histories, mysteries. I'll find a subject and read everything about it I can. Right now, I'm on a jag about the women spies and resistance of WWII.

Can't name a favorite movie. I watched "Red Sparrow" last night. It was good, quite a thriller with an unexpected ending.
 

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Books and movies are my two favorite things!
Books: Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
The Mark of the Lion series by Francine Rivers
This Present Darkness, Piercing the Darkness, and Monster by Frank Peretti
Binding of the Blade series by LB Graham
Most books by Scott O'Dell
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Movies:
Lord of the Rings films
The Hobbit films
Pirates of the Caribbean films
The Princess Bride
Little Women
The Chronicles of Narnia films
Love Comes Softly films
Do You Believe?
Gone With the Wind
Ben-Hur (1959 version)
God's Not Dead series
There is tons of other books and movies but these are the ones that came to mind.
 

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My all-time favorite book is "The Scarlet Letter." I have many copies of it that I have annotated over the years.

Othe favorite books:
Norton Anthology of Literary Theory and Criticism
The Time Traveler's Wife
The Book Thief
Jane Eyre
Like Water For Chocolate
The Phenomenology of Spirit
Hope: A Tragedy
Fortune's Rocks
Silas Marner
Great Expectations
The Last of the Mohicans
Pride and Prejudice
Heart of Darkness
Wuthering Heights
Flowers in the Mirror
The Count of Monte Cristo
Notes From Underground
Lord of the Rings (written as one novel in three parts, not as a trilogy)
The Second Sex

Movies:
Shakespeare In Love
The Lord of the Rings trilogy
The Harry Potter movies starting with "The Prisoner of Azkaban"
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Cat People (1942)
Iron Man
Mad Max: Fury Road (I hate all the other Mad Max movies)
The Color Purple
Whale Rider
The Wolfman (1941 and 2010)
It's a Wonderful Life
Muriel's Wedding
Queen
Slumdog Millionaire
Raise the Red Lantern
All About Eve
Mulan
Kill Bill
Orlando
Aliens
Room (not "The Room")
Most of the Star Wars series
 
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  • I forgot to mention some books

  • Sophie's Choice- William Styron
  • Killing me Softly -Nicci French
  • To Kill a Mockingbird-Harper Lee
  • The Heart is Lonely Hunter-Carson McCullers
  • Great Expectations-Dickens
  • Kiss the Girls-Jack Patterson
 

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I read a lot more than I watch TV. The only books I don't like are those romance novels, the covers alone turn me off. Lord of the Tube Socks and Fabio von Hissey Fit aren't my favorite reads.
I like novels and autobiographies, I like most of Stephen King's works (especially the stuff from the 70's and 80's), any book that deals with dogs, cats or any animals (especially about husbandry practices, handling, etc.)
I like funny books and stupid books and just books that make you laugh. I got one for Christmas about how cats view the world. I read it in 20 minutes but laughed for 45.
As far as movies go if it was made after 2000 I'm not usually not interested.
I really enjoy documentaries focused on real, every day people that have a unique struggle in their lives. The bad part is after the hour it takes to watch it has passed, if the documentary is made well enough you want to know how that person is doing today and there's usually very little information that's up to date.
 
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