I hope no news is good news, our prayers are with you Mr. Durfee! Speedy Recovery!

Brian! Where are you? We are all worried. We are missing you and hoping you are well.

I wish we could get an update. We are very worried about him.🙏❤️

It's been a full month since there's been a health update. I've never meet you Mr Durfee but I think about you and pray for you daily. Best of luck friend. I hope we hear from you soon and I hope you're doing well.

That thumbnail had me worried for a minute. Glad to see you still on the mend. Keep on hanging in there, better days are ahead.

So glad that you've been able to find some solace in Tad Williams' works and that it has helped you escape a little from your current predicament. Best wishes to you - the fantasy and book tube community is sending lots of love your way.

Hope you're doing better we need Durfee back

Stay strong mr durfee , finished the forgetting moon a week ago and what a journey it was .

Hope you're doing well Sir, sending you prayers for your recovery and well being

You will recover and come back stronger. All the best on your journey to recovery get well, from your no 1 UK fan ❤

Hey! Just wanted to let you know I purchased all 3 of your books. Have heard great things about them. Looking forward to reading them.

Recovering might be a fight, but there're a lot of people that are glad you've got a chance to face that opponent. You beat scary odds already. We'll keep cheering and praying for you.

Dear Brian, I'm so happy you are alive! I'm mostly a silent watcher, but I told myself, next video I will leave a comment. Love your channel, your videos, and currently also reading "The forgetting moon" and loving it. Please be well and write more epic books! Greetings from Germany. 🥰🤗

“Just a little paperback” and Tad Williams don’t go together.

Hope you’re getting better Mr. Durfee. I miss your enthusiasm & energy on booktube. Sending healing thoughts.

Nothing alters my TBR more than the title for this video. I’ve had these books on my shelf for years. Now I gotta read these and soon. Get well Mr Durfee!!!!

Very grateful you’re fine mister Durfee;) Soon recover;)

Glad you're doing better, brother.

Memory Sorrow and Thorn is such a fantastic series, To Green Angel Tower is easily one of the greatest endings to a fantasy series EVER!!!

Hello! Hope you are getting better! We are praying for you!!! Been pretty concerned about you! Save your strength and focus on healing! God bless, we really love ya!❤

just finished witchwood crown and it was incredible. Tad is the man! Thinking of you and wishing you the best, thanks for keeping us updated.

Book 1 was an absolute treat! Just finished Book 2 and looking forward to read the epic conclusion! Youre the reason I regained my love of reading, get well soon!❤

Just finished dragonbone chair for the first time yesterday and it is beautiful

Wish you all the best on your recovery Mr. Durfee! Just started reading “The Dragonbone Chair”!

Wishing you well Mr Durfee. I'm adding these books to my TBR list for the immediate future.

Stay strong, greetings from Poland. Let the force be with You!

I'm so sorry to see you in this state I hope you get better

So good to see and hear you talk about your health and books ❤ stay strong ❤

Great to see you BLD..!..Greetings from Ireland..I am following you and hope for your supremeness to Conquer all...!

Hang on there man you are a great great inspiration! Keep fighting!!!

The power of a good story should never be underestimated. Glad to see that you're still doing what you love. Hope it keeps you going and healing. Hang in there, Brian.

Thank you Tad. Feel the love of reading with fresh eyes Brain, and be well.

Coming back just to say we all love you and hope you get better. You have introduced me to many different types of books and authors I dont believe I ever would have checked out. I hope you over come the pancreatitis and get back to your normal life. You are the man and if I can find a way to get my hands on your series I will definitely be reading. Get better man

get well soon!!! we need you back!!!

My Favorite Fantasy Series Of All Time!

I’m glad you haven’t lost humor in these past few videos. Dry humor is the best in my opinion. I’m still here watching and wish you a speedy recovery, much love!

I wish you a full and speedy recovery Brian, your recent video on the Shannara series by Terry Brook inspired me to reread Sword of Shannara for the first time in nearly 30 years and I am loving it! So thank you and Tad Williams is also a favourite of mine and I’m glad he helped restore that zest to read again. Godspeed and get well eh.

When I see a new video by you, I can't click it fast enough! Glad you recaptured your love of reading, I realized just how much I miss hearing you talk about books. Keep focusing on your health, we appreciate you whether you are reading or not, brother!

Dear Mr. Durfee, all the best to you. Thanks for your work. Be well.

You got to go on a great adventure with those books. We're all rooting for you.

Stay strong, Mr Durfee, greetings from Greece! You cannot go wrong with Tad Williams!

Brian, I don't know how ANYONE could go through what you have without experiencing some depression. All in all, I'd say you're handling things pretty well. Here's to hoping you can be back in your own home very soon.

I love you dude! Durfee is reading again…that’s a great sign.

LOVE the fact that you chose to share this. I pray you recover your full health soon!

LOVE YAH! You will get better.

I love your channel and I hope things are getting better.

That's a helluva title! Love it! So glad you're doing better.

Glad to see you looking good and on the road to a recovery. I understand how you felt about reading, same when I have been ill. A wonderful series, that I just reread last year. Prayers to you, and we all look forward to you being back in the saddle reviewing.

A true legend

Godspeed my friend!🙏🏼🤝

Glad you are partaking in your great passion again! Sheved your beard! Color looks great. Hoping you're home soon.

All the best Brian, as always ❤

I just found The Dragonbone Chair in a thrift store and my husband listened to the audiobooks and said it's like Game of Thrones, but better and has an ending! So I purchased the sequels on ebay and I want to read them as soon as I get done with Outlander.

I hope more than anything you get better and can keep spreading your positivity and love of books to us all. I am 28 6ft 165 perfectly healthy and have started having issues with my heart. Dont have any answers yet really but after this experience i fully plan to prioritize my health in a major way. Heres to you and health and recovery 🎉

For me its David Gemmell what i can re-read time after time after time. it allways gets to me.

I hope you are taking time to get well :) best wishes

Brother, I just found your channel a few weeks ago and have been binging. I'm pretty new to fantasy and love your input. Seeing you sick like this sucks, but I'm glad you're hanging in there and getting better. I'm just learning you're in Utah as well. I live in West Jordan, so in your area. I've been looking into Tad Williams wanting to start his series. This solidifies that decision for me. Keep up the fight, Brother. Thanks for the excellent content, and I am looking forward to seeing more.

Sending positive vibes for good health. Take care and get well brother.

Glad to see you continuing to improve and that the reading spark was rekindled to help you recuperate.

Glad to hear your reading again Brian lee Durfee

Sending you all my love and hugs Mr Durfee! Get well soon 🙏

Brian I have never commented on your videos but have liked and watched many. Hang in there! Stay strong my friend!

Just finished the series for the first time tonight. It really is something incredible. I think it would have festered on my TBR for years without your encouragement. Thank you, Brian. Appreciate it and I hope you’re feeling better!

Best wishes and wishing you a speedy recovery.

Top three series of all time for me. I wish you nothing but the best and speediest recovery!

Get well soon

First of all, I wish you a successful and speedy recovery. Osten Ard has also cast a spell over me. Although I liked the second saga series much better. Tad Williams has rekindled my love of reading. I am very grateful to him.

Stories, words, literature truly are healing. There is a reason they are such a key part of human culture. They keep us going, give purpose to our lives. Tad is one of the very best. I am so happy his work is helping you through this tough time - and you’ll be perfectly prepared for The Nagivator’s Children later this year (surely you can procure an ARC?)

Thoughts and prayers for you, Brian. Always glad to see you and hear your musings on anything. Stay strong!!!

Hey Brian Hope your feeling better. Miss you around here

Mr Brian, I send you all the positive energy and blessings, I always watch your videos, they are great and because of you buy TAD WILLIAMS longings and sorrows, and remember that booktube and its followers need you, a lot of strength and many enditions, greetings from Colombia.

So glad you have those books to go into, and yes a certain book presents itself when we need them most x

Hope you get better! I was wondering if you have read any more of the Shardlake series? I read Dissolution because of you and some of the other books are even better

I'm a big fan Mr Durfee and I sure hope you make a speedy recovery. The worst is behind you and now just focus on getting better and soon you will be back making great content on your channel. Gods speed sir, all my very best wishes.

That is one heck of a view. Glad you are hanging in there. Hope you make a full recovery.

Preying for your recovery

Memory, Sorrow and Thorn is excellent and The Last King of Osten Ard almost equally so. Such beautiful writing, immersive world, memorable characters and story. Wishing you healing and peace.

Keep recovering! Glad you have some aspect of your normal life back. Im really enjoying The Forgetting Moon!

Hope you are getting better! Thank you for recommending Tad Williams the dragonbone chair is fantastic! Wish you all the best! When you feel up to it then give us an update! Kr

Keep kicking ass! Hearing you talk about books made my day a whole lot better and it seems like yours too!

Brian, I know it has been a while since you posted this, but I wanted to tell you that you are rarely out of my thoughts and I am praying you and your loved ones are given strength and encouragement to the degree that you have given strength and encouragement to so many through you channel. I am sorry you are unable to read but recognize that hospitals are rarely conducive to anything besides whatever the hell is happening then and there...lol..wierdos spending time saving lives, changing bedpans and having crazy rendevezous in those way to cramped linen closest :)! Anyways, maybe...only if you can seek headphones or a decent pair of laptop speakers, you can enjoy some of your Audible listens. I know that you hate ebooks (me too) but you can totally hit play on those audio books and when you zone back into the story a few seconds to sync up the brain with the ears and you can totally pretend like you have exclusively tuned into the 96 hour 1x version of War and Peace and if anyone gets too probing with their questions...talk slower and more sarcastically and I bet they back right the hell off! Thinking of you, wishing you smiles, health and healing! Go slow just keep going...we'll all be here when your better able to deal with your frenzied fan base. --CDC // Texas // 7/3/2024 @ 3:50AM CST

Haven't been following you for long but as one brother to another, my thoughts and good wishes are with you. Hope things go better for you soon.

Stay strong 💪! Tad Williams is awesome ✨🪄🧙‍♂️

Glad to see you’re reading again, Brian. Get well soon.

So good to read an old favourite when you are not well. Hope you are better soon.

Books are healing.

The Dragonbone Chair helped me trough my darkest times fighting with depression and stuff. this is like healing by reading

Your channel introduced me to Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn. I've read up thru To Green Angel Tower part 1. Stay strong and get well soon!!

Brian you have discovered what many of us fantasy readers have discovered when we have to deal with tough mental challenges… fantasy novels can be the cure for getting us through it intact!! For me the Song of Ice & Fire & a Witcher podcast got me through!! I only read Memory, Sorrow & Thorn on your recommend and actually the last hospital stay I had with my son I read Feist’s The Magician, another Durfee recommend!!!

Get well soon, looking forward to watching more of your videos! And please do try to top off the Five warrior angels. Love your work

I started watching your channel last week--I was viewing the ranking videos concerning fantasy. I hope you make a satisfactory recovery.

I hope youre doing well man, I found you through your book reviews and had always seen your books but hadn’t picked one up yet. Wishing you the best because it doesn’t sound easy

Glad you're feel way better, definitely want to check out your books. Keep on, keeping on bro.

Beautiful video. Thankyou for sharing this. I wish you all the best for your recovery ❤

Hoping you recover soon. Nothing like rereading fantastic books. Nothing like the clasics.

MST is like a comfort blanket for me. Any time things are bad I reach for either the paperback or the audiobook. Similarly to you, there is something about the opening lines that calm me... "On Tthis day of days"... There are few books that do this. Whether it's Simon or Pug. Sometimes these characters and books can be lke old friends and give you comfort. Feel better soon and we'll see you for The Navigator's Children...

I'm also currently reading book 1. Keep getting better!

I'm going to read this series next. Will be think of you getting better while reading it. Peace and good health to you.

Awesome you found something to help keep you going man, keep getting better!

I had The Dragonbone Chair in paperback at one point but didn't get around to reading it before getting rid of it (downsizing my collection again). I have a tendency to go to bookstores for fun but have a hard time getting into books, so I can relate to your inability to get into them for a while. (Even if I try to leave without buying a book most of the time, I still end up with a lot more books than I actually read.) One time I wanted to try to get back into reading so I went back to one of my old favorites: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and that worked. I'm glad you were able to get back into reading, and I should really give this book / series a try.