After seeing the link on The Symposium, I decided to join up with the RIP III challenge. What exactly is the RIP III challenge? Well….

The RIP III (Readers Imbibing Peril) Challenge is a reading challenge where you have the option of choosing from three perils.

RIP I: Choose Four Books from the gothic, horror, supernatural, mystery, thriller, dark fantasy, and suspense genres.
RIP II: Choose Two Books from the gothic, horror, supernatural, mystery, thriller, dark fantasy, and suspense genres.
RIP III: Choose One Book from the gothic, horror, supernatural, mystery, thrill, dark fantays, and suspense genres.

You can actually create a “pool” of books to choose from, although you aren’t bound to just those books you list. Just list a few that you would like to go for.

My list is as follows:

Cell by Stephen King
Sleepwalk by John Saul
The Husband by Dean Koontz
Judge and Jury by James Patterson and Andrew Gross
Mind Game by Christine Feehan
Crisis by Robin Cook

These are just a few of the books I might pick from. Oh yeah, and I’m going for RIP I - Four books. Let’s hope I can get them all read - the challenge runs from September 1st - October 31st of 2008, and I’m getting a late start.