Would you Rather? It is a staple of blogs and Youtube channels everywhere and who am I to disagree or try and be different? The problems with this is that there are no one set of questions. And some of those questions are… YAWNsome. However, Cam from Wolfshot Publishing has come up with a great bunch of questions. And there are NO loopholes.
And here they are.
Would you rather… spend one year travelling abroad in Middle Earth (from Lord of the Rings), Neverland (from Peter Pan), Wonderland (from Alice in Wonderland), Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory or Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (as a muggle)?
Well damn. This is a hard choice. First of all, I can rule out Wonderland – tis a silly place filled with stupid critters and dangerous monarchs. Much like modern life, it seems! Neverland does seem alright, but being nearly 40, I think I’d rather hang out with the pirates and that means evading a large croc. The chocolate factory would see me become the living avatar of type II diabetes.
So the choice is Middle Earth or Hogwarts. Here is the thing – Hogwarts is fine and all, but it is a school. I already work in a school. Who wants to spend all that time in a school? That way lies madness! So, off to Middle Earth I go! I’ll send you a postcard of me and the Uruk-Hai!
Would you rather… be able to remember the last 100 books you have read word for word but only be able to read about 60 words per minute OR remember the last 10 books quite well and read a book incautiously?
This one is a no-brainer for me. It would have to be the latter – Reading slowly sends me to sleep and so I’d never finish a single book let alone remember 100 of them. Sorry, Cam. Too easy! Lets try another.
Would you rather… remember how awesome all the books you loved reading were but for them to be erased from existence OR remember all your favourite reads but never be satisfied by another book again?
A hard one for me, this one. Dammit Cam! On one hand, I could rewrite the books I loved and hope to do as good a job as I could so that they could be shared with the rest of the world, but we’d lose wonders such as the Hobbit, the Lord of the Rings, the entire Trudi Canavan catalogue, works by Dan Abnett would vanish, and worse, Rudyard Kipling and George Orwell would vanish, Huxley’s brave New World wouldn’t have existed… This is too high a price to pay for my own selfishness, I’m sorry. So rather, I’d have to find alternative means of entertainment – because if I can’t read, I wouldn’t be able to write either.
Would you rather… be on the run from Aria Stark from Game of Thrones or Mia Corvere from Nevernight? You have one fictional character to protect you, so who would that be?
I’ve always thought that it is better never to know when death takes you. And having never read Nevernight, I’m unsure if that describes Mia. Aria is a badass – and evil. I think I’d not choose her unless Mia was as psychopathic. However, I would choose Vin from The Final Empire to protect me. She’s so sneaky and insanely powerful and a Mistborn, so she could probably take both of them as long as they used metal weapons!
Would you rather… every time you read a book, every two pages you get a papercut OR you have to yell every single word you read as loud as possible?
Since I read mostly in the evening, with a three-year-old in bed, shouting is out. She never sleeps as it is. Papercuts it is. Someone bring me a blood IV!
Would you rather… only be able to read books on your phone or only be able to listen to them as audiobooks?
As anyone who knows me can tell you, I hate phones. Hate them. Hate. Them. But audiobooks have such a limited range. This is a hard choice, but my hatred of phones would probably mean I wouldn’t read at all. So audiobooks win!
If you want to try these questions, please let me know how you get on! Would love to see how people decided.
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