RMFAO (Reading My Frigging A** Off) discussion

Thanks, Dagny! I'm glad it's still Action and Adventure this month, because I just bought books for these genres at a used book sale. It should be a fun month of reading!

My first Action book is Split Second . It is described as an action-packed thriller.

Thanks a lot for creating this thread, Dagny!

Cheryl wrote: "My first Action book is Split Second . It is described as an action-packed thriller."

Well, I abandoned this one. I just couldn't get into it. On to the next one.

This book is more to my taste: The Jungle .

I guess it is Action?

I have a question for the moderators. I'm not completely sure what an Action genre book would be. Adventure mentions a hero, but Action books also have a hero -or am I confused? I was thinking that the Lee Child series starting Jack Reacher would be Action. But isn't Jack Reacher a hero on a mission in those books?

I think stating some examples of Action books would be helpful to me. I looked at last year's genre challenges for examples, but Action was not part of the challenge then. Any help you could give me would be appreciated!

Thanks, Dagny! I won't make a distinction between Action and Adventure either.

Cheryl - Most of the people do Action and Adventure together, but there are quite a few significant technical differences:

Action = usually about a hero facing down crime or exacting some kind of justice. Facing down crime = Die Hard, exacting justice = Man on Fire.
Adventure = your hero usually is thrust out of his own world in the name of some kind of quest. Star Wars, Wizard of Oz, even Matrix.

Action = Man/Woman versus man/woman. Pendergrast Series
Adventure Man/Woman versus nature or different environment. Eg. Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Series

Action = Intense, gritty and serious. Eg. Jack Reacher Series
Adventure = Usually humorous and light-hearted (but not necessarily so) Eg. Adventures Of Hucckleberry Finn

Action = Almost always Fiction (Mostly crime novels)
Adventure = Most of the times Fantasy (Hobbit)

While determining genres, the central conflicts are considered, and not necessarily the overall theme. For example, an Adventure story will always have a part full of action, but the main genre stays Adventure and not Action. THGTTG series by Douglas Adams is a classic example. And vice versa.

Hope this helps :)

Thanks, Heena! But the Goodreads explanation contradicts what you just said. Oh boy, now what? I will just post the books I am reading and you can classify them.

Cheryl wrote: "Thanks, Heena! But the Goodreads explanation contradicts what you just said. Oh boy, now what? I will just post the books I am reading and you can classify them."

I referred to a lot of definitions and I guess it's safe to say that the Goodreads definition is wrong.
Anyway, if it makes things easier, then of course you are free to interpret genres as you will. :) There are no rules.

Dagny wrote: "Wow, Heena. Very interesting - and fairly clear and straight forward. Thanks a lot to our resident author for coming through for us."

Hehe! Thanks a lot, Dagny! :D

I was thinking that the Goodreads definition was wrong. They made it sound like any book with a hero was an Adventure. I will go by your definition, Heena. It just makes more sense.

Cheryl wrote: "This book is more to my taste: The Jungle ."

Finished it. 2 stars.

For Adventure genre, I am reading The People of the Mist . The author's note at the beginning refers to the story as an adventure, so I'm calling it an adventure too.

I read my first for this month: Tears of the Ancient and Other Stories - 4/5
This book was a collection of short stories. All of them can be categorized as adventurous except for the last one which was full of action. So I'm going to count this one as an Adventure read. :)

Ok! This is a genre I love and I have so many books that it's only a matter of choose. The first one I started is Master and Commander. I'll try to read the most possible.

Dagny wrote: "Andrew wrote: "Ok! This is a genre I love and I have so many books that it's only a matter of choose. The first one I started is Master and Commander. I'll try to read the most possibl..."

Till now is good, even though the real adventure has yet to begin. There are a lot of naval terms and many info about arguments like music and science, but it's an easy reading.

Finished this one for Adventure: The Loch Man versus marine creature. Four stars - I loved it! My review can be found here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Dagny wrote: "Finished my second for the month - it was quite short, probably novella length. Murray Leinster's Juju as mentioned above in Message 25. Entertaining and action-packed with a few surprises along th..."

It is short and it is also available on Gutenberg and LibriVox? I'll have to check it out. Thanks for the links you shared earlier Dagny!

Cheryl wrote: "Finished this one for Adventure: The Loch Man versus marine creature. Four stars - I loved it! My review can be found here: https://www.goodreads.com/revie..."

Sounds great. I'll add it to my TBR pile. Thanks, Cheryl :)

Hello, everyone. RMFAO 2017 Genre Challenge thread is up now: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Cheryl wrote: "For Adventure genre, I am reading The People of the Mist ."

Abandoned it at 40%. Good at the beginning, then I lost interest when the romance part began.

My third Adventure book: The Fortieth Door . It's an adventure set in 1920 Cairo, Egypt.

Dagny - Yeah,I saw your rating for the book, but I haven't read a pulp fiction yet, so I thought that this will be a nice read especially because it is short. The best part is I really like the narration. It's slow and easily understandable. ☺

Dagny,
I saw that Wanda had read The Fortieth Door (she actually listened to the audio book) and gave it 3 stars, so I'm giving it a try. Other reviewers of it called it an adventure, so it fits the challenge. So far it's good.

Finished my 2nd Adventure for this month - AB - Juju - 4/5.
And here's the link to my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Cheryl wrote: "My third Adventure book: The Fortieth Door . It's an adventure set in 1920 Cairo, Egypt."

Finished it. Lots of fun! My review can be found here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I'm a newcomer here. I'm planning to read Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransom as part of my children's literature course. I read it about five years ago and found it rather dull - not a patch on Treasure Island by R.L Stevenson.

My third Action book is Runner . I'm about half way through it now.

My third Adventure book is The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story by Douglas Preston -
It is an AMAZING book and I don't want to be done with it ever! I am reading 2 chapters every day because it is so good that I don't feel like reading it in one go and being done with it. It is one of those books you feel like enjoying a chapter at a time.

If you like real adventure stories, do check out this book!

I hope to finish a couple of books before the end of the year so, for this challenge, yesterday I started Iceberg, a book of Dirk Pitt series.

Dagny wrote: "Heena wrote: "My third Adventure book is The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story by Douglas Preston -
It is..."

I'm so going to read the one you've mentioned. I had no idea that true adventure stories can be so much better than the fictional ones!

Dagny wrote: "I'd never read Douglas Preston's bio here at GR. No wonder he loves going off on all those adventures. His bio reads like a novel, lol.
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show..."

Wow! That was an incredible bio! Thanks a lot for sharing it Dagny. I just read his 4 lines bio given in this book and The Obsidian Chamber.
I guess I now have a new favorite author. I absolutely love his writing and his sense of humour.

Cheryl wrote: "My third Action book is Runner . I'm about half way through it now."

Finished it: 3 stars. Plenty of non-stop action. It includes people with psychic ability in the plot, making the book a bit different from other thrillers. A pleasant surprise.

I forgot to wish earlier... Merry Christmas, everyone! <3

The discussion thread for the next month's challenge is up here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Dagny wrote: "Cheryl wrote: "My third Action book is Runner . I'm about half way through it now."
Yea, my library has it! "
Dagny, you could definitely read this for the January science fiction challenge. I'd call it a science fiction thriller.

Today I've finished Iceberg, another good book by Clive Cussler, but without the usual historical mystery. I don't think I can read another adventure book before the end of the year, so I'll try to finish the other book I started .

My review of The Lost City Of The Monkey God by Douglas Preston - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

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