So apparently you all are not that into music, or at least writing about it.  What about books??  Some of my favorites:  A Confederacy of Dunces.  War and Peace (Tolstoy is listed as an ENFP by some).  Love in the Time of Cholera.  Most anything by Louise Erdrich. 

Yours??

Tsung Tsu- Art of war, Musashi Miyamoto-5 Rings, Machiavelli- The Prince,and other works, A container load of How To guides, Alexander Dumas- The Count of Monte Cristo, J.J.R Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings,............ wow   I just realised that I am the "life" of the party.

So apparently you all are not that into music, or at least writing about it

I love both!!  How do other ENFPs feel about books?

On my shelves you will find MANY character driven novels, poetry, travel books (especially off the beaten path types) history books, books about herbs, meditation, social theory, psychology. Not big on the how to books (I'll just wing it thank you).

AHHHHH!!!! NO WAY!!!  She is way too naive (and forgive me for saying it) "people incompetent", to be ENFP.. She may be sociable, but she isn't people smart.. ENFPs understand people more than that.. For starters, she can't manipulate people (even when she tried).. Matchmaking is a secret speciality for the ENFP.. .. Emma from Jane Austen doesn't seem to be Intuitive at all -- with all the socially awkward mistakes she's made.. lol  .. It just goes to show how little Ne she actually has..

Sorry Purplegiraffe.. I read the book EMMA, and found myself disappointed (and sometimes frustrated -- pulling my hair out, etc.) in the main character quite often -- as she could not seem to connect the dots with the way people thought, felt and the ways their relationships effected each other.. She was also not very self aware.. The main character did everything WRONG!!  Not a reflection of the intuitive ENFP-type at all.. So I just had to ramble on about it.. lol

My reading material is almost always non-fiction. I love sci-fi, fantasy, and historical fiction. My favorites are: Lord of the Rings, anything by Orson Scott Card, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, the Chronicles of Narnia, Contact, Sherlock Holmes books, and the last Harry Potter ( The movie was so good! It was the first movie I had ever seen that lived up to my vision of the books, and that includes the superb Lord of the Rings movies.)
I do enjoy reading books about war though. I've read Sun Tzu's Art of War and researched every major American war to a ridiculous extent. I have some kind of weird fascination with warfare,therefore I want to be a military historian. I'll drown in books about warfare and love it lol.

Emma is, in fact, either an ENFP or an ENFJ

Interesting..
You know, it's hilarious.. I know a few ENFJ women, and I could imagine them acting out EMMA quite naturally..  So from the choice of either ENFP or ENFJ, Emma would fit into the latter category much better. But Emma definitely does not show the characteristics of any ENFP I know.. She is not tactful enough.. She doesn't seem to use Ne properly as an ENFP would.. I could imagine her as an ESFP though. I get frustrated reading about her just like I sometimes get frustrated with the untactful behavior of some ESFPs I Know..

I can also see how Emma might be an ENFJ, but one thing is for certain, she definitely does not display Ne as her dominant personality trait..

I'm inclined to agree with Justin here. Emma seems to have very little intuition, and seems more concerned with match making as a means to raise social status than as a means to true love / deep connections, and is completely oblivious when this is happening organically.

I could see Elizabeth Bennett as ENFP though. Nothing can make me flip my switch more than seemingly arrogant, mean-spirited judgements.  But if I realized I got it wrong, spoke too quickly and hurt someone's feelings.

I'm inclined to agree with Justin here. Emma seems to have very little intuition, and seems more concerned with match making as a means to raise social status than as a means to true love / deep connections, and is completely oblivious when this is happening organically.

I think it's interesting how quickly a general topic: Books??? can turn into a conversation about Jane Austin characters on an ENFP forum.  The "good" women are always NFs (in my mind anyways), while the petty or nasty ones are always SJs. Many stand out NT guys as well. I love Jane Austin. She pioneered the romantic comedy.

It got me thinking about my favorite books / characters, and how they are pretty much always written by Ns or are Ns. A simple observation, but one that I hadn't really made until now. I listed a couple of favs on my first post. Has anyone else read Anna Karenina or War and Peace. I'm sure the sheer volume of pages seems daunting to some ENFP's who have MUCH to do. But when I'm in a more introverted phase there is little that's as pleasurable as curling up with a well written, character driven novel. It's almost the same as getting to know real people - but without any of the exhaustion. And Tolstoy's work is so perceptive and engrossing that it reads fast and DOES NOT seem like 800 - 1000+ pages. It's in fact so sad to have it end. I think Pierre, and perhaps Natasha in W&P are ENFPs.

And if you have not read Confederacy of Dunces, DO!!! It isthe most hilarious book I've read to date!!!  Funnier than Vonnegut, seriously. The main character seems to me to be INTJ, and is a ONE OF A KIND!!! Loads of quirky characters though, and crazy, bizarre misshaps. It's so much fun.... Also a Pulitzer Prize winner post-humously (he committed suicide and his mom shlepped his box of pages around for years until someone finally read>published).

If anyone has any enthusiastic recommendations, I would love to hear them!! I have more, but these are at the top of my list.

Yes, Ignatius is definately all of those things!!!  But c'mon. If you saw him waddling around in piratate regalia pushing a weinie cart it would make your day!!  It's a full out parody of types. I suppose you have to be in the mood.

Bella, Catcher in the Rye is another great one.

The "good" women are always NFs (in my mind anyways),