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Read a book that you normally wouldn't be interested in but the pure trainwreck quaility "made you look."That's poorly explained, so for example:
Occasionally I used to watch the TV show The Girls Next Door: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468424/?...
It's terrible and I loved the terribleness of it all. So those "girls" have moved on and the claws have started to show.
Three former "girls" have written books and a friend has read and reviewed them all. I finally broke down this week and ordered one via Amazon (was NOT paying more than $0.01 for that) and reserved the other two at the library.
Bunny Tales
Sliding Into Home
Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny
OMG. So trashy
Nyssa wrote: Oh! I was thinking annually, sorry.."I think it can still work and still be an individual item in the challenges. I'm really just thkinging out loud trying to puzzle out in my mind how this all fits together. I think I've got that figured out too but I need to keep overall and individual difficulties clear. This one is difficult for length and for some individual items within the challenge itself while balancing what is a reasonable length to give someone a completion pat on the back because I'm pretty certain no one will finish all of this.
Although right now, you'd only need to read 67 books to finish.
MrsJoseph wrote: "Read a book that you normally wouldn't be interested in but the pure trainwreck quaility "made you look."That's poorly explained, so for example:
Occasionally I used to watch the TV show The Gir..."
Lol. I was thinking originally of something along read a book that has such a bad marketing blurb that you just have to read it.
How about...
"A book that sounds so terrible you just can't look away."
Do these also fit into that category?
Modelland or Star or perhaps Don't Hassel the Hoff: The Autobiography.
I mean seriously, that last one should be a shoo-in just for title alone.
How about:A book based on another authors work.
This would fan fiction, continuations of a series where one author has passed away, modern adaptations of public domain books, etc.
Examples:
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (HP fanfic)
Any of the Kindle Worlds books (authorized fanfic from many different worlds)
The Bourne Legacy (Eric van Lustbader's authorized continuance of Robert Ludlum's Bourne series.)
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (adaptation of public domain book)
Difficulty: 2? Shouldn't be too hard. There is lots of stuff available from both indies and traditional publishers. The trick if finding something where you have already read the source material, because why else would you be interested in starting something like this?
I'd say maybe 3 for difficulty just because of the need to have read previous material. That always narrows options. I try to base difficulty on number of options and availability and cost of options. Things not available as eBooks (not a problem in this case.)These should be relatively cheap, although my library has Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and I've read and disliked the source material. Although i see Methods of Rationality is 122 chapters and a little longer than War and Peace now.
HomeInMyShoes wrote: "MrsJoseph wrote: "Read a book that you normally wouldn't be interested in but the pure trainwreck quaility "made you look."That's poorly explained, so for example:
Occasionally I used to watch t..."
I was thinking more along the lines of something you search(ed) for because of rubber-necking style interest. Like - I'm not into TV period and even less into reality shows based around people's lives. But the rachetness of the actions of the Playboy bunny girls is...impossible to ignore. O_O
Hmmmm...it's interesting, but I'm not sure how one comes to that conclusion. I mean it's not like it's a book about a reality show.My logical brain is not following the random path to choosing a book. Lol.
I Ithink if you explain it as I'm not interested in other people's lives, but the "rachetness of the actions of the Playboy bunny girls is...impossible to ignore."
Now, what do we call that. It's not really guilty pleasure it's more:
a book that about something I'm not supposed to be interested in?
HomeInMyShoes wrote: "I'd say maybe 3 for difficulty just because of the need to have read previous material. That always narrows options. I try to base difficulty on number of options and availability and cost of optio..."That works for me. Personally it won't be hard at all but for some people it might be much tougher. I originally had it as "fan fic" but wanted to make sure there were other options for people who don't like indies or just don't like fanfic. There is a surprising amount of work that could be included when I started looking at it.
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That's a whole lot of stuff that I haven't read. So maybe I'm leaning difficulty towards my experience and not others.
My concept here is a total free for all, but with a couple of options to set some direction for people.Whatever You Like: pick a subset of challenge items to complete for your own custom list
Maze Challenge: navigate from the Start to the Finish by reading books in order (honor system there, and I wouldn't begrudge anyone altering the order slightly of their reads for the progress to work with library loans and book availability.)
All Your Book are Belong to Us: you need to score as much as you can to survive. You get points as follows:
1 point for a book read, even if it doesn't fit into a challenge category
1 point for completing a challenge item and bonus points for difficulty (there will be a list for that)
bonus points
11 points for reading at least one book from every sub-challenge
1 point for completing a sub-challenge
2 points for completing a second sub-challenge
3 points for completing a third sub-challenge
4 points...
11 points for completing an eleventh sub-challenge
TOTAL AVAILABLE POINTS: 207, although I'm still working that out and I'm figuring out what would make sense for a grading system:
0 points
5 points
10 points
25 points
50 points
75 points
100 points
150 points
200 points
The somewhat non-linear scoring is due to the fact that as one finishes sub-challenges the bonus points increase quite a bit.
It might not be possible to get 200 points without finishing everything, but hey it is supposed to be hard.
This is of course still in development and still prone to change.
Any thoughts?
I'm liking it!
I do need more categories. Especially for the Maze Challenge. I am currently 71 categories short for what I've drawn, but I am shrinking it. So keep coming up with ideas because the other challenges scale appropriately. I don't think anyone is going to finish the entirety, even at the 69 books it is right now. A couple are just quite difficult.I'll probably want someone's help rechecking the maze for easy versus hard routes.
The other thing I could do is duplicate a few favorites so that they must be hit on all paths. That could reduce the number needed by six or seven categories. I don't really want to to that too much because I like the trade-offs involved. I think I'd give everyone a vote for one of their own nominated ones for ones we would duplicate so the challenge would involve a bit of everyone in it for all paths.
I don't know how many of these have already been suggested, but I thought it was a cute list:
Not much that hasn't been covered yet, but I'll endeavor to get them in. Although timeliness might be off for a bit. I'll be AWOL for most of the summer what with summer and the arrival of a new child imminently approaching.Just a reminder. I'd love another 40 or 50 options for categories so that the maze journey is complete and there's almost no chance that someone will finish everything. Unless of course you want to see a whole bunch of countries and genres show up in the final maze.
Do not contribute at your own peril.
lol
Peril is my middle name. Is that a dare? LOL :P
Christa wrote: "Peril is my middle name. Is that a dare? LOL :P"Lolz cat sez "I'm in your hated authorz lizt".
I was just thinking...Have you ever seen this map (I have it in my profile pics)? https://d.gr-assets.com/photos/130590...
Why not an "Alice in Wonderland" kinda of segue? I'm thinking something a little silly like -
-the reader is wandering the challenge and picks one - but suddenly - the reader finds out that challenge was a black hole and they land on the (above) map. In order to get out of wonderland the reader needs to read at least ___ books that correlate to the map.
-Paranormal Romance
- Aliens
- "Punk" (the endless punklands so: steam, cyber, etc)
- Sci-Fi
-Urban Fantasy
-Sword & Sorcery
- Lovecraftian Horror
-Weird
-Manga
-ETC
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1) Read four high-brow books about the annual competition for the Grey Cup. (easy)2) Read one literary work concerning the Saskatchewan Roughriders. (very hard)
No action here in a long time so I thought I would post a couple more lists that might give some ideas:The Book Riot Read Harder Challenge
2015: http://bookriot.com/2014/12/15/book-r...
2016: http://bookriot.com/2015/12/15/2016-b...
Some of the highlights (that I don't think we already have):
A book written by someone when they were under the age of 25
A book written by someone when they were over the age of 65
A microhistory (http://bookriot.com/2013/08/12/microh...)
Read a book with a main character that has a mental illness
Read a book out loud to someone else
FYI: I've created the folder for the 2017 individual challenge threads for anyone who is interested.
How are things going with the 2017 challenge? Is it still happening?
DoodlePanda wrote: "How are things going with the 2017 challenge? Is it still happening?"Yes. I believe so. We just need to hear from our Challenge Czar. ;-)
Cool! I've kinda made my own challenge (work in progress) as well, but it should be easy to combine :DI've actually finished my A-Z challenge this year, so I'll prob do that again as well! The challenges are helping me get through my TBR pile :P
Has anyone heard from HomeInMyShoes recently? I hope everything is OK!
I haven't but I sent a PM a week or two ago with no response. I'd love it if someone could tell me everything is ok.
MrsJoseph wrote: "I haven't but I sent a PM a week or two ago with no response. I'd love it if someone could tell me everything is ok."
I agree!
For more ideas, the Popsugar challenge had a "category" thread too: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...Their final list is here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
And this challenge made me think of HomeInMyShoes, the 2017 European Reading Challenge by Rose City Reader: http://www.rosecityreader.com/p/the-e...
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Don't Hassel the Hoff: The Autobiography (other topics)Modelland (other topics)
Star (other topics)
Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny (other topics)
Bunny Tales (other topics)
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Any thoughts?"
Works for me.