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RPPR recommended Literature. (also romance novels)
« on: November 25, 2010, 02:03:30 AM »


Harry Potter for adults. This is not a children's book. It is about growing up and going to to a wizard school. Enjoy.

Devoured it in an afternoon. Engaging from start to finish. A+++ would read again.





The title alone suggests an interesting read.



So here is how this thread should work. Recommend an actual book, and then find a truly terrible or hysterical looking romance novel. Post them here, along with a review, however brief. (No one expects any people to have actually read any romance novels. It's just for fun.)

Lets talk about books people.







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Re: RPPR recommended Literature. (also romance novels)
« Reply #1 on: November 25, 2010, 03:17:25 AM »
I think even better than the title itself is the fact that it comes from the "Man of the Month" collection (April 2005 it would appear)...

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Re: RPPR recommended Literature. (also romance novels)
« Reply #2 on: November 25, 2010, 04:34:30 AM »
The thing that gets me is that it's not enough that he's a billionaire, he also has to be a doctor.

That's...just a thing. I don't even...

Just....FFFFffff. Man.
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Re: RPPR recommended Literature. (also romance novels)
« Reply #3 on: November 25, 2010, 05:18:26 AM »


The Black Company, a series of books written by Glenn Cook. This is about a group of mercenaries who go around fighting on either side of the alignment (for both good and evil). The series is written as if from the point of view of their Annalist, or history writer (for the most part). In the first group of books, this is from Crooker's viewpoint, though later on the style changes with a change of the person who is doing the job.

I think it's a pretty cool book; a bit gritty, and fantasy based.




The series written in the land of Dragaera is pretty interesting, and starts with the book Pheonix Guards, which is written in the style of the Three Musketeers. It's got its own share of intrigue and action, and focuses on the lives of long lived beings that Humans call Elves (though they call themselves Humans, and they call Humans 'Easterners'). 500 years after and Viscount of Adrilankha would be the next in the series, which is then followed by a group of books going from the point of view of an Easterner Assassin named Vlad Taltos (pronounced Taltosh).
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Re: RPPR recommended Literature. (also romance novels)
« Reply #4 on: November 25, 2010, 11:12:07 AM »
Brust is great!

The Deed of Paksenarrion trilogy by Elizabeth Moon is very good.




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Re: RPPR recommended Literature. (also romance novels)
« Reply #5 on: November 25, 2010, 01:28:09 PM »
how the fuck do you farm sheep

is she the daughter of a WoW player that killed a lot of sheep ingame?

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Re: RPPR recommended Literature. (also romance novels)
« Reply #6 on: November 25, 2010, 02:07:41 PM »
I'll trade you two sheep for a brick.
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Re: RPPR recommended Literature. (also romance novels)
« Reply #7 on: November 25, 2010, 05:33:20 PM »
No! Wood! Wood will you trade for sheep! Wood!


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I read The Magicians in about 2 days last week. It was a bit of a downer in the end, but still really compelling. I especially liked that I figured out the Watcherwoman before the reveal - usually I can't see those sort of things a mile away.

No image, since I'm posting via phone, but has anyone else read The Name of The Wind? It's sequel is the other reason March will be a banner book month for me (the first being the next Dresden Files book).

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« Reply #8 on: November 25, 2010, 07:17:47 PM »


One of the most important works in Western philosophy in the last 20 years.



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Re: RPPR recommended Literature. (also romance novels)
« Reply #9 on: November 25, 2010, 07:22:27 PM »
how the fuck do you farm sheep

is she the daughter of a WoW player that killed a lot of sheep ingame?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheep_farming Somehow I think "Sheep Husbander's Daughter" would have been worse.

Joke's aside, it's a good book.

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« Reply #10 on: November 29, 2010, 08:10:25 PM »


The Black Company, a series of books written by Glenn Cook. This is about a group of mercenaries who go around fighting on either side of the alignment (for both good and evil). The series is written as if from the point of view of their Annalist, or history writer (for the most part). In the first group of books, this is from Crooker's viewpoint, though later on the style changes with a change of the person who is doing the job.

I think it's a pretty cool book; a bit gritty, and fantasy based.



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« Reply #11 on: December 07, 2010, 02:17:24 PM »
I've been in a sort of science-fiction book binge, reading anything I can get my hands on. Here's a book that I'd like to recommend to those looking for a great read and an introduction to one of the most interesting and imaginative science fiction settings I've seen.

"Chasm City" is the second book written by Alastair Reynolds set in the Revelation Space universe, but in many ways this should have been the first book. Reading it first, it will give a much better introduction to the technology, background history and important names in the setting; many of these were glossed over in the first book but never fully explained or detailed.

The book follows a man named Mirabel Tanner, an ex-security specialist who is following the assassin of his former employer to a planet called Yellowstone, its main city being Chasm City. The city was mutated by a nano-swarm plague and is in many ways eerie and alien with buildings almost unrecognizably human. The plague also killed those using implants or nanotechnology, affecting many of the aristocratic individual including those who have made themselves immortal. And yet, people still try to live their daily lives in spite of the lack of superior technology, (Which is easily contaminated by the plague) a huge division between rich and poor, the criminal elements around the city, and the life-threatening events organized by the immortal aristocracy. This is just scratching the surface of the sheer ammount of content in the book.

The book is a mix between noir investigation, techno-thriller and even a spice of Lovecraftian horror, all within a very solid science-fiction setting. The plot twists are completely mind-blowing and they keep coming. By the end of the book, everything ties nicely together too.

In terms of RPG ideas, this have given me several for an Eclipse Phase campaign, but I could easily see many of these ideas being converted to any sci-fi setting, and even fantasy or steampunk.



And now for a romance novel:



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« Reply #12 on: December 10, 2010, 02:57:58 PM »


This is the first book in a trilogy.  The general plot of the trilogy is below.  The books are enjoyable, and the setting is fun.  There are elements of steam punk and librarians rule the world and have duels with flintlock pistols. They also run around and capture mathematicians to create a computer in which each function is done by one or more people.

in the early 21st century a scientific experiment is carried out in Sydney, Australia to recreate a recently discovered ancient whale, or cetacean, using preserved DNA. The experiment backfires with apocalyptic effects. The whale had been a member of an ancient species with telepathic powers. It escapes with 2 other cetaceans and teaches other cetaceans how to use its ancient weapon of telepathy to devastate the human race that has caused so much harm to them. Copying the emotional longings of one of the scientists it felt, the recreated whale creates a telepathic "Call" that makes humans and most large mammals walk lemming like towards the source of the Call, the ocean. Society is quickly devastated as the majority of the population literally walk to their death in the ocean. Military attempts to destroy the cetaceans come to nothing, but are also diluted due to various world powers believing the Call is a pre-emptive attack by others and launching strikes.

At the same time, a ring of manned nuclear satellites used to enforce world peace is in place. The military commander, seeing the world collapse into chaos and not understanding its full nature, overrides all human operators, and programs the system to destroy all vehicles over a certain size, or moving over a certain speed, and all electronic signatures. This does nothing to stop the cetaceans, and leaves a satellite defence system in place for millennia that will keep the survivors in the technological Dark Ages by force.

The main surviving scientist links up with other survivors and, seeing that birds are not affected by the Call, engages in a genetic experiment to try to give the next generation immunity from the Call by blending bird DNA with humans. Millenia later their descendants will be immune, but also ignorant of their origins, and feared by all "normal" humans although believed to be a myth.

While these events were underway, a long term project to counteract global warming was underway. Robotic miners on the moon were manufacturing a space based ring of mirrors that would also diffuse the sun and cool the Earth. Slowed by the collapse of civilization it continues its task, also building a computer control system that will eventually become sentient.

It is this world 20 centuries later, having adapted to these new rules of existence which it has forgotten the causes of, that change begins to come to in the trilogy.





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