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Dwayne from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updated October 26, 2015 - 2:44pm

So I have a few book ideas that sound cool, but I doubt I'll ever write.

Leadership Lessons from the Bottom of the Ladder

Do you guys have some?

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L.W. Flouisa from Tennessee is reading More Murakami October 26, 2015 - 3:13pm

Lets see, I have a few. Note my bias having came from the RPG Maker community:

Tales Of Destiny 20,000
Quest Of The Four Ruins Thrones 7
Tales Of The Peasant Warrior 23
Destiny Of The Dark Knight
A Spaceship And Its Dark Knight

Again there is a reason my titles tend to be more like: Blood Of Katolinio, Jonah NumeroHex, or recently Home From The Corn Maze (a children's horror flash fiction.)

My most trite sounding is Eternity Of The Night, which is a flash fiction version of such poetry as known to reverse in on itself: I am a dragon born to burn a town of whicker wood born to burn a dragon, I am.

Kind of a way of fighting back against trite or cliche titles from the RPG Maker community.

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Thuggish from Vegas is reading Day of the Jackal October 27, 2015 - 7:16am

Lessons... Bottom... Ladder might be the best unwritten book idea I've ever heard.

 

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Nathan from Louisiana (South of New Orleans) is reading Re-reading The Rust Maidens by Gwendolyn Kiste, The Bone Weaver's Orchard by Sarah Read October 27, 2015 - 11:54am

Flesh and Metal Legacy

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Gordon Highland from Kansas City is reading Secondhand Souls by Christopher Moore October 27, 2015 - 1:55pm

Rabbi Sanjeev and the Periwinkle Valise of Intrigue

The Pop-Up Book of Inappropriate Erections

For real, though, NV (get it: Envy?) was to be my next book before I opted for an album instead. Set in Nevada, obvi.

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Thuggish from Vegas is reading Day of the Jackal October 27, 2015 - 2:23pm

You could call it eNVy, exactly?

Also, PM me I'll give you the NV inside scoop from a guy who's been around the state... but doesn't like to get out too much.

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Gordon Highland from Kansas City is reading Secondhand Souls by Christopher Moore October 27, 2015 - 4:17pm

Even more clever. I've visited maybe ten times, but never lived there. The guy who sits next to me at work is from there, and pretty hardcore Mormon, which I find amusing.

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Thuggish from Vegas is reading Day of the Jackal October 27, 2015 - 6:47pm

Eh, it's "Sin City" if you visit. If you live there it's just a rather flavorless town (Reno/Vegas anyway) where you stop noticing the mostly unused slot machines in 7-11s. And if you grow up there, the concept of a "liquor store" is confusing for a while. 

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Thuggish from Vegas is reading Day of the Jackal October 27, 2015 - 7:04pm

Oh! I have one... Super Noirio.

I had this idea to make a hard boiled, ostensibly serious detective/PI story involving Mario characters. Toadstool and Luigi could be having an affair behind Mario's back, Bowser would be a drug kingpin (the koopas, of course), possibly in a turf war with the Kongs (Asian triad gang moving in?)... Maybe Mario has some kind of side kick he calls Toad who's Toadstool's nephew or whatever. Maybe he could save the little Toad from a drive-by and Toad could say "thanks Mario, but your princess is in another car" or something.

You'll notice I don't call the princess "Peach." I'm old school, and I hate that ridiculous name.

At some point Mario could throw Molotov cocktails, his motorcycle would be a Japanese import, Yoshi brand, Bowser (who has a strange affinity for venus fly traps) would keep an axe in his office for intimidation that Mario would somehow use to foil him in the end... And if possible, work in an accidental shroom trip in which Mario thinks he's a giant and invades the sewers.

But there's just no way to use all those characters without owing Nintendo all my profits. And I'm not in this to do things for free.

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jyh from VA is reading whatever he feels like October 27, 2015 - 7:46pm

Ladder thing makes me think of Dilbert.

Noirio might sell. If you changed all the names to something punny like that, and didn't include any derivative images, you could maybe claim parody a la MAD Magazine. (<---- This isn't legal advice or counsel, blah blah, etc.)

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Thuggish from Vegas is reading Day of the Jackal October 27, 2015 - 9:16pm

I thought about it, not sure where the line is drawn with parody and so on. But if the thing wasn't obvious enough, it'd kind of defeat the purpose. 

Sooo... anyone around here a lawyer?

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Dwayne from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updated October 27, 2015 - 9:31pm

@Thuggish - Thanks, maybe I'll write it. Isn't that a video they have done?

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Thuggish from Vegas is reading Day of the Jackal October 28, 2015 - 6:06am

I'd read it. Or cowrite it with you. 

Is what a video who's done?

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davidheath23 from Brescia, Italy is reading Brave New World October 29, 2015 - 8:47am

The Girl Who Rode the Metro Who Was On Fire.

Sure to be an instant best-seller if buzz words are any indication.

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Dwayne from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updated October 30, 2015 - 2:07am

I'd worry about the click-through rate, because it is a bit confusing. Is the girl on fire or the Metro? JOKE DISCLAIMER. 

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Thuggish from Vegas is reading Day of the Jackal October 30, 2015 - 7:00am

^ I was going to suggest changing the second "who" to "that"

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DrWood from Milwaukee, WI, living in Louisiana is reading A different book every 2-5 days. Currently Infinite Jest November 13, 2015 - 4:38pm

Explosive Diarrhea