Books in the NPF Community

[Packman]

I was having a few ideas and I was wondering if anyone else would be interested in them to help give me some momentum.

One idea was a Book PM list. It would consist of a long list of good books recently read by members of the NPF.

I was thinking something like this

Title: XXXXXXXXXXXX

Fiction:
-Eragon by Christopher Paolini: Insert Review here -Packman.

-The Three Musketeers: Insert Review here -Packman.

Science Fiction:

-Book 1 by author A: Review -NPF member X.

-Book 2 by author B: Review -NPF member Y.

Enter generic category here:

Lather, rinse, repeat!

Then when you recieve the PM you add a book or two of your own and send it back to the person you got it from as well as to everyone else on the list.

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Another idea was a book of the month club. Where we decide to pick a new book read it and one month later discuss what we thought of it.

Like

Thread Title: Book of April

We read XXXX last month

I think ...................

Next month we are reading XXXXX by xxxxxx.

next person posts. etc etc


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Personal Request feel free to ignore

I for one read a hellofa lot. For my english class I figured something insane which is like over 500,000 pages in 4 months. I DEVOUR them!

(next paragraph is just braggin... you can skip it)

I went through almost 100 books since last year, the shortest of which was 250 pages. I also went thought the entire NPF archives and several thousand posts (including the ~1k in the all purpose poetry thread my last one was 9/11). The entire Alt+Cntrl+Del Archives and the Chugworth Academy Archives as well as about 4 other FF webcomic archives.

Now the problem is the vast majority of the books I read are nonfiction. I was wondering if I could get some good fiction books that I havent read.

The last one I thouroughly enjoyed was "The Stranger." I also went thought every book Tolkien wrote and Eragon. What I really need is a good novel something that will get the imagination working. I'd love any suggestions, but please include somekind of information on whats in the book. Thanks!!

[Gorefiend]

Well, might I recommend the Dune series? It is quite good; the LotR of science fiction, I daresay.

There's always the Discworld series if you're in for some fun.

If you'll read Terry Pratchett, you may as well read Douglas Adams, a wonderful comedy writer for science fiction.

Speaking of comedy books, a masterpiece of comedy is Catch-22. Just trust me when I say you'll never find a bigger hive of circular logic.

There's always Orson Scott Card's excellent books. I recommend, aside from the Ender series, the Bean series, the Homecoming series, and the Alvin Maker books, whatever their series is called.

And, there's also Phillip Pullman. I have read His Dark Materials (which is becoming a movie, hopefully) and highly recommend it.

As for your book club idea, I'm all up for something that will get me reading more often. I love reading, but I get too distracted by the silly pictures oozing out of my computer monitor for my own good, I'm afraid. Let's see what others have to say, though. Also, if you don't mind explaining your PM list a bit more clearly for little old me, I'd love to have it clarified.

[Danath]

lets see for
Fanatasy
Wheel of time series-Robert jordan
sword of truth series-Terry goodkind
the loan drow, crystal shard, and many other books but R.A Salvator that have Drizzt in them

Fantasy/sudo horror
Forests of the night, Demon in my view, midnight preditor and the few others by Amelia atwater Rhodes
Club Dead, Dead as a doornail, living dead in dallas and the other southern vampire novels by charlien Harris

sci-fi
Any of the startwars books really especially the earlier ones that are supposed to come after Return of the jedi


I could name many more books and authors but i dont want to type that long.

[Darkflame]

Horror:
IT: By Stephen king
I found this to be a good book, better than the movie but 1090 pages is a lot to read.

Meg: Primal Fury; By Steve Alten
A good book for Shark attack movie people.

Fire & Flesh: By Evan Kingsbury
A good, well rounded, novel.
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Thats all I can think of off the bat.
I can only reccomend horror because that is really all I read.

[RickZarber]

I'll go ahead and peddle Stover again, I guess. Haven't done it in a few months, and reading his novelization of Ep III got me in the mood...

So yeah, Heroes Die and Blade of Tyshalle by Matthew Woodring Stover. Fantasy/Sci-Fi mix set in a future dystopian Earth where capitalism has eventually evolved into a caste system of You Are What You Do. For entertainment, the masses rely on the adventures of Actors, who use some futuristic technology to enter another world, one that's more or less full of what we consider to be things belonging to the realm of fantasy. The actors take on roles in this very real world. Sometimes they're heroes, sometimes villains, sometimes mages, sometimes killers - all for the enjoyment of the masses back home, who have live feeds into the experiences of the actors thanks to brain chips. The most popular Actor is Caine - the Blade of Tyshalle, the deadliest assassin who lives. Monarchs and Empires rise and fall at his hands (and at the whim of a Board of Govoners back on Earth). And that's just barely a weak glimpse at the premise.

Extremely graphic and highly intelligent, they're some of my favorite bits of writing from the past decade. HD is, according to the author, a "violent piece of entertainment that is itself a meditation on violence as entertainment", and BOT covers everything from chaos theory to free will to responsibility in all its shapes and forms. But if you think you can stomach the violence, don't mind having almost any preconceptions you might have dashed against the stones, and don't mind reading things that'd make a sailor blush and a priest's head explode, I can't recommend these enough.