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August/Septmber BotM Poll

PostPosted: August 9th, 2014, 10:03 pm
by MissRed
Hello RPers!

Please cast your vote. I just randomly selected these books and no theme in particular.

Below you will find the blurb (all from Goodreads) for each book.

Let's do this!!




Ready Player One
It's the year 2044, and the real world is an ugly place.

Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes his grim surroundings by spending his waking hours jacked into the OASIS, a sprawling virtual utopia that lets you be anything you want to be, a place where you can live and play and fall in love on any of ten thousand planets.

And like most of humanity, Wade dreams of being the one to discover the ultimate lottery ticket that lies concealed within this virtual world. For somewhere inside this giant networked playground, OASIS creator James Halliday has hidden a series of fiendish puzzles that will yield massive fortune -- and remarkable power -- to whoever can unlock them.

For years, millions have struggled fruitlessly to attain this prize, knowing only that Halliday's riddles are based in the pop culture he loved -- that of the late twentieth century. And for years, millions have found in this quest another means of escape, retreating into happy, obsessive study of Halliday's icons. Like many of his contemporaries, Wade is as comfortable debating the finer points of John Hughes's oeuvre, playing Pac-Man, or reciting Devo lyrics as he is scrounging power to run his OASIS rig.

And then Wade stumbles upon the first puzzle.

Suddenly the whole world is watching, and thousands of competitors join the hunt -- among them certain powerful players who are willing to commit very real murder to beat Wade to this prize. Now the only way for Wade to survive and preserve everything he knows is to win. But to do so, he may have to leave behind his oh-so-perfect virtual existence and face up to life -- and love -- in the real world he's always been so desperate to escape.

A world at stake.
A quest for the ultimate prize.
Are you ready?



Amy and Roger's Epic Detour
Amy Curry is not looking forward to her summer. Her mother decided to move across the country and now it's Amy's responsibility to get their car from California to Connecticut. The only problem is, since her father died in a car accident, she isn't ready to get behind the wheel. Enter Roger. An old family friend, he also has to make the cross-country trip - and has plenty of baggage of his own. The road home may be unfamiliar - especially with their friendship venturing into uncharted territory - but together, Amy and Roger will figure out how to map their way



Vicious
Victor and Eli started out as college roommates—brilliant, arrogant, lonely boys who recognized the same sharpness and ambition in each other. In their senior year, a shared research interest in adrenaline, near-death experiences, and seemingly supernatural events reveals an intriguing possibility: that under the right conditions, someone could develop extraordinary abilities. But when their thesis moves from the academic to the experimental, things go horribly wrong. Ten years later, Victor breaks out of prison, determined to catch up to his old friend (now foe), aided by a young girl whose reserved nature obscures a stunning ability. Meanwhile, Eli is on a mission to eradicate every other super-powered person that he can find—aside from his sidekick, an enigmatic woman with an unbreakable will. Armed with terrible power on both sides, driven by the memory of betrayal and loss, the archnemeses have set a course for revenge—but who will be left alive at the end?

In Vicious, V. E. Schwab brings to life a gritty comic-book-style world in vivid prose: a world where gaining superpowers doesn’t automatically lead to heroism, and a time when allegiances are called into question.'


Stardust
Hopelessly crossed in love, a boy of half-fairy parentage leaves his mundane Victorian-English village on a quest for a fallen star in the magical realm. The star proves to be an attractive woman with a hot temper, who plunges with our hero into adventures featuring witches, the lion and the unicorn, plotting elf-lords, ships that sail the sky, magical transformations, curses whose effects rebound, binding conditions with hidden loopholes and all the rest.

Re: August/Septmber BotM Poll

PostPosted: August 9th, 2014, 10:38 pm
by jemchan_n
xD I voted! :D :P

Re: August/Septmber BotM Poll

PostPosted: August 9th, 2014, 10:50 pm
by laila_6045
YAY!

Re: August/Septmber BotM Poll

PostPosted: August 9th, 2014, 11:02 pm
by arjaye
done! :)

Re: August/Septmber BotM Poll

PostPosted: August 11th, 2014, 12:14 am
by malot1182
Done!

Re: August/Septmber BotM Poll

PostPosted: August 11th, 2014, 7:10 am
by Heldervert
Ayan nakaboto na hehe. Stardust ako. Matagal ko na gusto basahin yan. Sorry guys kung d me nakaka online. Busy na sa pagiging guro.

Re: August/Septmber BotM Poll

PostPosted: August 11th, 2014, 9:03 am
by MissRed
malot, heldie!!! welcome back. mag victory dance tayo sa inyong pagbabalik.

Re: August/Septmber BotM Poll

PostPosted: August 11th, 2014, 9:40 am
by Heldervert
Lol....pwede haha. Mauna si malot. Busy sa brave frontier

Re: August/Septmber BotM Poll

PostPosted: August 11th, 2014, 4:05 pm
by ima_vee
done!

Re: August/Septmber BotM Poll

PostPosted: August 11th, 2014, 8:29 pm
by MissRed
Gaiman's leading...