S'truth.

Someone may find it, or it may sit on the shelf for years and years. At least if someone buys them all and sells them, someone who wants a copy can get it. Double edged sword

Paul M. I don’t think your reasoning is wrong, but I was thinking more of the heart of that person who is faced with that decision of whether to take all three or leave one behind.

I pick up the first book of the Wheel of Time and a Song of Fire and Ice whenever I see one at my local goodwill shops. I do this to keep people from being tricked into the series. It also makes the later books go into discount for people who are too late to save.

Came here to say this.

Me too

It absolutely from Richard Dawkins and I read that book when it first came out. The word sat around for decades until, like an improbable meme, it took off again about 15 years ago. That's memes for you.

Wow. I bet he's never heard of it & never been told that.

@@salty-walt Irresistible irony.

@@outlawbookselleroriginal Thanks Steve! My" secret t-shirt phrase" by the way is " Magnetic Irony" so, pretty close. . . ;)

@@salty-walt i already commented it on one of his other videos, but mentioned it here because the author's name came up and i actually think it is that good. he also seemed unfamiliar with the name, although chinese pronunciation is a bit inscrutable to the unintroduced westerner. i also haven't heard him mention the author in any of his other vids, and since i think it deserves to be considered as part of the Great Scifi Canon, it's worth repeat mentionings to all parties involved.

It's my favorite. Hey Fit 2B read! Haha . seems I run into you everywhere lol

Correct. Rushkoff was instrumental in popularizing it in a lot of his pop-sociology books from the 90s and aughts..... like Media Virus and Coercion, and his novel Ecstasy Club, about the early rave scene in the bay area (which I will admit to being way too into when I was younger lol)

No one could argue with your view about the awfulness of most novel adaptations, of course. However, there are a (relatively small) number of film adaptations that drastically improve on the source texts! For example, after watching Christopher Nolan's film "The Prestige" (one of my all-time favorites), it led me to seek out the eponymous novel by Christopher Priest. I very strongly recommend against bothering to read it! It's utter garbage (my opinion, of course), and it took considerable self-control to slog my way to the end, but I strive not to compare two works of art without seeing them in their entirety. I even corresponded with Priest after I read his vicious attacks on the film, trying to determine if there was anything substantive to his complaints. There was not -- it was mere jealousy. How sad. A pair of examples are the two film adaptation of Stanislaw Lem's "Solaris". Lem gets a great deal of praise for his novels, particularly "Solaris". But n contrast to the other Lem novels I've read ("Return from the Stars" and "His Master's Voice"), in my view "Solaris" pales severely. It was badly diminished by technological and practical oversights, for one criticism. So in comparison, both film adaptations, by Tarkovsky (1972) and Soderbergh (2002), excel over Lem's novel. But Tarkovsky's film desperately needed something approaching an hour cut from the extremely dull and turgid waste of good celluloid (insomniacs take note). Consider just how much time he wasted showing us seemingly mile upon mile of freeways seen from a car. The conversations en route were of little value and could have been compressed into the space between two off-ramps. Whereas Soderbergh's work is, again in just my view, a great treasure. I would say that it vastly transcends both the novel and the earlier film. I'd list other examples, but this is far too long already. The point of all that chatter is that the commonly held notion that film adaptations are always (or nearly always) unworthy of the source novel is simply unjustified.

Good wishes on you. Do beter at school next year and you get 'beter wishes'. Get accepted into a proper university and you might get 'best wishes'. X grandpa. :P

Not to pre-steal Matt's thunder, but I have a video coming up on this- plus I think Matt and I will have different but complimentary takes on this, being of different generations. But I'd like a clip on this from Matt too.

I'll agree with you on that!

@@outlawbookselleroriginal There's also the US/UK subjective taste issues to add to the complementary spice. ( Was that the one with the little spirals in her hair?) You know I've got long term issues surrounding airbrushed science fiction covers which in the States usually signaled a children's book from scholastic, or a knockoff of such, where in the UK it was a sign that the book might be off the standard path. At least we all agree that Chris Foss is boss.

@@waltera13 -Yes, the transatlantic barroer aesthetic. Foss is bosss- well, after Jim Burns for me. You'll find my upcoming SF covers vid will have a spin you won't find elsewhere- have a great day, my friend!

Thanks, Stephen. I saw Pastel City crop up in one of your vids and have been hoping to run into it. Hope you're well.

@@Bookpilled I'm fine thanks, Matt. Old and in the way but still rockin' it!

I saw a copy of Venus yesterday, actually. They had it priced at $30.

@@Bookpilled Nice! I’m glad it‘s still around…

I have a copy of Venus in excellent condition than I snagged for a couple bucks from a used bookstore that obviously didn't know what they had.

Thank you, Anonymous Troll Demon.

I know that Dawkins gets the credit for the biological understanding and creation of what a meme is, but who the hell invented dancing baby?

Came here to say the same. From "The Selfish Gene". I'm still annoyed sometimes by the current use of meme for pictures with a text.

@@stefandebruijn2654 Me too but that battle was lost a long time ago lol

@@JackMyersPhotography Meme doesn't have a biological understanding - it was coined explicitly to parallel gene as a conceptual unit

Serendipity

@@Bookpilled I can only watch you and Fit. Too much overload otherwise