The Witchwood Crown is so good!! I will start Empire of Grass soon. Glad you enjoyed Witchwood Crown!

I would absolutely enjoy seeing more Tad Williams content on the nuttwork. A discussion panel might be cool. Mike of Mike’s book reviews is a big fan. Cheers!

I sensed a cold wind and knew the game was about to change

I actually fist pumped after reading The Dreamers and saw that he was thinking of McCarthy. I already adored The Dreamers, but that was the solidifying moment where I thought "King just gets it." The Dreamers might be my favourite thing King has ever written. And the themes of cosmic horror, the hidden otherworlds behind the consciousness of man, these are things that I associate heavily with McCarthy. I'll say it here: Cormac McCarthy is a cosmic horror author. His work is filled with gnostic, supernatural, cosmic ideas where he's wondering about our place in the universe, our connection to the stars. And I think this is a super neglected facet of McCarthy's work. Nobody talks about the haruspices divining the future of man in Child of God, nobody talks about the three strangers in Outer Dark, nobody talks about Harrogate mapping the strange discrepancies between the underground and the overworld in Suttree, nor his countless allusions to the strange universe all throughout the Border trilogy. The Judge, fortunately, usually gets his due for being some kind of supernatural, but I feel like perhaps they just chalk that up to a "devil" figure in a violent world, which is the wrong approach, I think. But anyway, I think McCarthy was very, *very* concerned about the unknown and unseen aspects of the universe, especially those inherent in the heart of mankind, and reading King say that after The Dreamers was just a YES, YES!!! HE GETS IT!!! moment. Plus I'm just a cosmic horror nut, I think King gets cosmic horror better than most people. His best works are his cosmic ones; Revival, IT, From a Buick 8. I also just think The Dreamers was his best written story in this collection. His prose felt a bit more considered, and his theming felt stronger, especially with how he tied the complicity of the Vietnam veteran with his work on the dream experiments. But overall I think the best stories were Finn, On Slide Inn Road, The Dreamers, and The Answer Man. My least faves were Fifth Step, Danny Coughlin's Bad Dream, and Laurie, all of which just felt very cheap and nothing-y to me. But I mean aside from King, your thoughts on Witchwood Crown as well as Brian Lee Durfee's new video both have me chomping at the bit to start reading Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn! I gotta finish up my current reads so I can just dive in and get lost in an epic fantasy. EDIT: well, I did it. I went and bought every Osten Ard book.

Hey, you were at Puerto Rico… I live in Puerto Rico! Hope you enjoyed it here. In regards The Witchwood Crown, I’m pumped you enjoyed it. I’m at the 90% mark on Empire of Grass and you can feel the tension building up. I agree: Tad Williams needs to be talked about more, especially with his new book coming out this year. I would love for you to interview Tad in preparation for the release, maybe a spoiler chat? Anyway, love the reading vlog!

Would love some Witchwood Crown spoiler thoughts, it definitely has a lot to talk about. Reading the Navigator's Children now and it's excellent

Great video, Jimmy! Totally agree with you that Tad Williams writes the best classical fantasy. I hope that you can have him on the channel again when Navigator's Children comes out 😄

I am so damn pumped you enjoyed The Witchwood Crown!!! I'm about 100 pages away from the ending of To Green Angel Tower, and boy oh boy am I excited for the Last King series. You definitely get the credit for encouraging me to start it with your reviews.

Keep going on The Expanse! I loved the series overall, there's highs and lows, but all decent stories at the very least

Yep, this is my year of rereads--Cosmere and Osten Ard. I'm working on the Cosmere right now and plan to start Osten Ard in Aug. I know a lot of the people in our corner of booktube have Wind and Truth as their most anticipated book of the year. For me, it is in second behind Navigotor's Children.

Rereading MST this year so I can read the new Osten Ard books.

You're getting me in suuuuch a big slow epic fantasy mood, I love it. Also, those woods look like a lovely place to let your mind wander, thanks for taking us along ;))

❤ Going for a walk now too. Loved the footage in the woods!

Empire of grass is even better imo☺️

Loved this!! I need to read Tad Williams. I’ve had one of his books on my shelf for over a year.

Fantastic vlog Jimmy! I’m loving this format for your videos. I want to thank you. I found your channel last year via Steve Donoghue’s appearance on CWN and I read Memory, Sorrow and Thorn earlier this year after checking out your videos on Osten Ard. Tremendous series. I’m very much looking forward to the sequels

I absolutely love how Tad Williams has used this sequel series to expand on the Norn and Sithi culture. In the original trilogy, the Sith and Norns were very much the "good and bad" elves respectively. Here, however, they are much more fleshed out. In my opinion, they totally steal the show.

Stellar video Jimmy! Fine you got me, I’ll buy a few of Tad’s books and dive into the Osten Ard Saga. With the nickname Tad the Chad, what could go wrong? 😄

Loving this format Jimmy. Please don't stop. 😊

It's fun watching these videos so you keep putting them out dude 🤙

Really excited to continue Orsten Ard! I think you'll really like Duma Key

Thanks for the video Jimmy! I'm glad you enjoyed the new King- I also liked it and thought Rattlesnakes was the best of the collection

Great vlog! Loved hearing your thoughts. I'm starting You Like it Darker next week. I have been wanting to read Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn forever and you are making me want to scratch that itch more! I also just found out Tad Williams wrote an urban fantasy with angels and demons called The Dirty Streets of Heaven...just ordered book 1😂

I’m so glad I found your channel, I’m a fake fan because I’ve only seen your one piece content but I’m here to stay! Have fun and stay blessed! I’m currently reading Fire and Blood hoping and praying that the winds of winter isn’t just a dream(of spring) lol

Okay, Jimmy. Fine. I'll read Dragonbone Chair, dag nabbit

Loved the vlog!

Loved the energy on this one brother 🤙🏻

Hi Jimmy, thought you might like to know that your previous vlog which contained Many-Colored Land gave me so many nostalgia vibes that I couldn't stop thinking about it. And I ended up dusting off my old 1980s copies and binge rereading the whole Saga of the Exiles! I loved it too. It's not perfect of course and won't be for everyone but so enjoyable. I am also super impressed with my 14 year old self for reading it then as the language and prose is quite complex (there are words I still need a dictionary for 40 years later😲). All my other reading plans were totalled but who cares... I am having a genre break at the moment with some crime/thriller reads but then I am going to reread the Galactic Milieu series as well. I plan to reread MST next year and then binge the new Osten Ard books - can't wait☺

Tad Williams is seriously the Best of the Best. I discovered Memory, Sorrow and Thorn because of your wonderful recommendation on this platform (absolutely loved the Osten Ard map video you made). I think MST is the perfect fantasy series and i can't wait to get to the Last King of Osten Ard. I recently finished Otherland, whchh was also probably one of the best series i've ever read too (dying to hear your interpretation of this story and it's perfect ending). Thanks to your recommendations, i am pretty sure Tad Williams has become my favorite author of all time.

I felt the deja vu for the character you are talking about. Young people never change I guess 😂 Tad did say he picked up the pace because he was much more deliberate in the first trilogy because it was the reader's first encounter with the world. Still, the man can write!

I love these vlogs, Jimmy! I would recommend adding in chapters, though, since they’re so long.

Eventually you’ll whittle me down to starting some Tad. I have yet to start You Like it Darker but I’m excited to. I really want to read some more short fiction I’ve been so busy that I haven’t really been reading much at all cause I’m in the middle of HoC and it almost feels pointless to read like 30 pages lol. I know it isn’t but it feels that way. Loving the vlogs man, and hope all is well with you and yours.

I read The Heart of What Was Lost spring last year so that I could jump on The Witchwood Crown and then forgot to read it. I need to reput Witchwood onto upcoming tbr

i got the books just need time to read it

So happy this vlog was shorter!!

This goes great with morning coffee. Like others I can't wait to see your reading journey with the new Osten Ard books. I know you read Brothers of the Wind but I think it hits differently mixed in with these books.

"I like it, but I'm still really bad" I've been golfing for over a decade and still feel like that! Once you develop some consistency and understand what clubs/shots to use when and etc. the game opens up and becomes a lot more fun to actually play

This does make me feel like I should read some Tad Williams sometime. Looks like good pizza.

Dude, stop making me impatient to pick up Tad Williams again! I've been reading a lot of GGK of late (Hobb dominated the 1st few months of 2024) so I've grown to really LOVE slowburn epic Fantasy. I've taking a break from Fantasy series and I'm getting jazzed to read them again. I'm reading 4 atm 😅 Guy Gavriel Kay's All The Seas of The World, The Last Light of the Sun... also by GGK 😅, Jonathan Maberry's Patient Zero and Lois McMaster Bujold's Shards of Honor. All of em rock.

I really love that you've brought Tad Williams to my attention! I do agree that epic fantasy is not dead; I think the problem is that even giants like this don't get the same kind of buzz, and since there's just such a higher proportion of romantic, cozy, grimdark, and other subgenres of fantasy really thriving, it does feel like the epic variety has subdued in publishing... But partly it's that these books are so massive, and constructed with so much care, that they come out less often than the one book a year release schedule that seems to be in vogue right now. I don't think there's a ton of new players on the field, but we still see such talented writers like Janny Wurts and Tad putting things out there, and even Kristin Britain and Jacqueline Carey who I started reading when I was quite young are still writing as well.. But I hardly see anyone talking about them! In the end though, I don't know if I want so many new epic fantasy coming out, anyways... Keeping up with several new 4+ book series every year would be exhausting, not to mention that it requires a degree of detail and level of writing I don't think just any author can produce. Quality over quantity is my feeling :)

Those stickers always come off clean, best stickers on the market! Haha Did you notice the giant alligator on the cover before you bought it? I picked it up in Barnes and Noble and didnt notice it until I felt the texture on the book. Really nice subtle design, thought it was just a rocky Florida beach.

Very glad you loved Rattlesnakes and The Answer Man ❤ the two I was most confident you’d enjoy

I commented on one of your videos about the Dragonbone Chair, about a certain theory that I won't mention on here.(I don't expect you to remember it, but the words 'Great Ships' and Endless Oceans' might jog your memory. But hey, you get LOTS of comments lol) After reading the first three of the new Osten Ard trilogy, and especially the novella Brothers of the Wind...I feel that that theory really might be confirmed soon.

I think I have the same hat as you lol

17:29 describing my bedroom game 😂

I really enjoy these reading vlogs. It's strange how Tad Williams remains unread for me. Just a total blind spot in my reading resume.

Unfortunately, I was able to deduce exactly what happens in To Green Angel Tower from the subtleties of your facial movements and vocal inflections.

holy shit one of those cats is LARGE

100% agree on You Like It Darker, read my thoughts you did. 🥰💚😋

Tad the Chad strikes again

Stephen King is great up to the point you realize that there´s so much better stuff out there lol

Bro are you gonna review sun eaters other sequels?

LFG

Love the Tadd Williams propaganda going on in this video, absolutely should be read by more people. Lowkey makes me a tiny bit salty that Brando Sando will likely sell millions of copies of Stormlight 5 at the end of the year while Tadd doesn't really get the credit that he's due. Funnily enough I was watching the Euros last night and one of the commentators quoted Brandon Sanderson, couldn't believe my ears, a football commentator quoting the old Brando Sando. The man truly has reach. Anyway, glad you enjoyed Witchwood crown, the series only improves from here on out. So much so that since finishing it I've picked up memory sorrow and thorn again, going to do a re read of the entire series before the last book comes out.