Can i read Tawny man without live ship trilogy? my library doesnt have that one

Him being a catholic shows in the character's names, most of them are very obscure saints names, a kind of private joke that only catholics notice.

I don't know what to say to any of this besides: I love Carry On. I could talk about the way ALL KINDS of different traumas were handled in these books. abandonment, self loathing, parental abuse...

i liked it a lot. loved that engineering substituted for magic in many ways. yeah it gets frustrating at some points but i really enjoyed all 4. especially the last 2

I agree that way of kings is not as good as people say. Totally agree so many dumb things happened in it, bad pacing, and I didn’t like the characters. People don’t talk about it’s flaws and it’s so weird.

Every marriage in this book is portrayed as bad even though if Elizabeth married Calvin, her life would have been so much easier

Finished Empire of Silence recently and have Howling Dark qued up!

Just finished the audiobook that thing was 14hours long 😭😭 it’s no way I could have finished the actual book copy

You're so beautiful

Severian was cool. Not meant for women.

Please give Sun Eater by Christopher Ruocchio a chance. A hundred times better that Book of the New Sun but very similar vibes.

I have a lot of issues with the series but he did write Chase.

Ivanhoe has a lot of fun workmanship details, that were absolutely new and revolutionary for its time. (1820.) Like change of narrative perspective between chapters, fake old-timey language to simulate a historical feel, double-layered characters, sympathetic villains... There's one scene that ends in a cliffhanger when suddenly trumpets blare: then the story loops back and narrates the experience of another character until - again - the scene is cut of by the blaring trumpet: and finally a third time. Knitting these three narratives together to a point where you as a reader realise that they are taking place in or around the same castle, at exactly the same time. It's neat, and it hardly feels dated or archaic at all. Edgar Allan Poe. Almost nobody need to read all of Poe, but if you're into fantasy or horror you should read at least some of the short stories. They're weird. Mary Shelleys Frankenstein. Have not aged gracefully, at all. Awful purple prose and weird victorian preachiness in an ugly marriage: it's a really hard read, but not rewarding your efforts in any way shape or form. If somebody tells you this is a masterpiece, they are a pretentious donkey. Skip. Bram Stokers Dracula. Like Ivanhoe a surprsingly fun and easy read. It is made as a literary "found footage" story. It's supposedly a collection of letters, diaries and newspaper clippings, collected and curated by one of the protagonists. Lot of subtext, if you can remember that these people's accounts are unreliable. What they say is going on won't always match what Stoker wants you to think is going on. Robert Louis Stevenson: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. It's short and way better written by modern standards than any of the previous entries. A superficially easy and fast paced supernatural mystery that you'll get throgh in like two or three hours. With oodles of subtext and themes that you can enjoy or ignore. Cheers

I think you still can enjoy the first 5-6 books without hating on what he said in his 70 tho

I've just read the first trilogy. One of the most annoying decisions is letting Regal stay in a position of power after he's shown his colours. I would say the first two books are a good length, but the journey in the third seems overly long. Nonetheless, a good enough trilogy to make me want to read more (which I don't often do).

The author was born in the time and location she is writing about. That gives her description of the setting more authority. I assume she has a pretty good knowledge of that setting. The more I listen to your review on the other hand, the more I get the impression that you have no clue about that time.

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is also my favorite Bronte novel as well! Some of my favorite classics that I think are underrated are : - Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell - Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell - One Day in the Life of Ian Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Odd Women by George Gissing - The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole - Man and Wife by Wilkie Collins - (Not a Novel but) A Moveable Feast by Hemingway - The Ladies' Paradise by Emile Zola

You guys deserve way more views for this. You found a way to actually make this trainwreck of a show entertaining. Keep it up

Got the first 2 trilogies of realm of the elderlings (and soldier son trilogy) all for free with my audible subscription. It was a limited time promotion, but WHAT A GIFT. I started with Liveship Traders (whoops, but it seems like you could start with either liveship or farseer and be okay) and WOW. Best written characters I have ever read. I am almost done with Mad Ship and it just gets better

wow! Elizabeth Winkler wrote books?!😍 shés Caroline's sis! Awesome!!She seemed so laid back 😅 Îm impressed and Îm definitely gg to read it thank you Liene🤗❤️

I'm currently reading Dune and I get what you are saying. For me tho, the book i'ts better exactly for that reason. I love to know what i'ts happening before the characters.

I also go back over and over to the Three Musketeers

Ivanhoe is an amazing book. Read it many times. Due for a re-read. Haven't read Book of the New Sun. Need to do it. Lud of the Mist will be read. I really loved Jonathan Strange. For me, Moby Dick is a very funny book. And also like a Ton Clancy novel getting into the nits and bolts of the operation of a whaler like TC described the working of an attack submarine.

Utterly agree. Just read this, and that's wasted time I'll never get back. In short, if this book is an international phenomenon, and regarded as "hilarious", the bar these days is low low low.... This is not funny, it's rapidly anti-Christian, it's misanthropic, and the heroine is a complete Mary Sue. I do not understand the hype, and I'm saddened that a book this mediocre, ham-fistedly written - oh my God, the "dialogue" - and with absolute paucity of "humour" has taken so much oxygen from good books like Katherine Heiny's "Standard Deviation" , or the Queen's Gambit. The first is actually funny, and the second is an interesting, human look at a real character was a real flaws making their way in the intellectual world of chess competition.

Henry was supposed to be important because he remembers, but what really happened is just no chemistry romance. Not even a deeper bond or anything. Just any love she had

This book was hollow to me. After reading it you can really extract nothing from it: no plot, characters are just plot devices, pace ruined, no love or anything between henry and addie… the only interesting thing is her journey because it was the whole point when she made the deal: to be free and learn and explore

I strongly disagree with Dune, the movie completely changes two major characters to literally smack the audience over the head with a message rather than it being subtle. There was many other things changed that made it weaker rather than stronger. I just feel like the director is amazing with visuals but cut important plot and character stuff out to have more visuals in, he has even said he doesn't like dialogue which is odd considering some of the most well regarded movies are dialogue heavy. I do agree with Lord of the rings though. That's how to do an adaption.

Just started the first book assassins apprentice, what strikes me how well written it is, doesn't really matter now slow it might be the writing is so entertaining

The Shelved By Genre podcast got me into (and out of) the Book of the New Sun, really good context and and analysis!

8:15 One thing I speculate is that Candide serves as the scaffolding for Severian's journey, essentially the journey of the Fool from the tarot.

You forgot Hamlet in it's original Klingon ...

I liked the move version of Jaws better than the book. I liked the Brad Pitt movie “Bullet Train” better than the book too. Also, I liked the Guy Pearce “Count of Monte Cristo” waaaaay better than the book. The book bored me to tears.

Love how at the beginning you said you aren't going to talk Terry's views, but you end up talking his views for the last 4-6 mins of the video 😅 but I understand why it needs to be stated ig, but wasn't expecting it to come up so much when I was warned it wasn't going to be brought up lol. Good video tho thx

The tv show Dexter is WAYYYYY better than its books.

The Lord of the Rings movies are no where close to being as good as the books. They are great movies, but no one can write better than Tolkien, and all of the "changes" were gor the worse. Aragorn falling over the cliff, and floating face up while unconscious is just stupid. Tolkien would never write something so ridiculous. Frodo sending Sam away because he thought he ate all of the Lembas? Please! That takes away from one of the strongest friendship themes of the books. I could go on and on .... The books are the best, truly a once in a generation Author. The movies are good but no for what they are, even great, but they are minimal when compared to the source material.

Not a movie but a tv series Outlander like the series better than the books ….ducks incoming internet hate

I wonder if you have read Tristam Shandy? I've always found that book hilarious, and clever, and yes, long-winded😂 But. I've never met someone who liked it. Also, I would absolutely adore an Ivanhoe adaptation❤

Gene Wolfe's main inspiration was supposedly Tales of The Dying Earth by Jack Vance published from 1950 to 1984. I haven't read those yet, but in case you have or if it's on your reading list then it would be great to share your thoughts. Thanks.

Fight Club and The Shining

The Devil's Advocate..

8:38 This got a chuckle out of me 🤭

I have read both and until this moment I did not saw any similaritires. Now I can't stop thinking about it. One thing tho; Spensa it's not so gifted as Kvothe, at least in the simpathy thing he is so much better than her in the beginning. She gets better but with time.

lud in the mist ... hell yeah

I love the Dune series of books but you're right that Book of the New Sun is so much better. Once one gets to a second reading of both, there's no comparison.

Best run down of this $hit show I’ve seen to date. “Not Galadriel”! Love it.

Going to have to hard agree with these. I haven't read Stardust, but I did see the movie though.

The hunchback of Notre dame as well, at least for me the movie was 100% better. Never liked the book and I ended up not finishing it because I just got so bored.

When I saw the thumbnail, LOTR, Princess Bride, Snow falling on Cedars, and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? sprung to mind.

Thanks a lot! Your recommendations are very useful. I'll listen to four of your suggestions.

Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope (since you like Ivanhoe) Crime & Punishment by Dostoevsky (Modern classics) Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden